Filmcourage

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Earlier this year, I made a film in the middle of nowhere called UP COUNTRY, a thriller about a fishing trip gone wrong, set...

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As I write this, I am 56% of the way to reaching the funds requested for my second consecutive film-related crowd funding endeavor. The...

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 I’m not particularly known for being motivated by the traditional “Holiday” thing. I’m more of a “Halloween” kind of guy than a “Christmas” elf!...

comedy

Actor/Comedian David Spates is in the Film Courage studio tells us about building an audience on the internet after being told he wasn’t big...

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  Filmmaking of any scope is hard, and there is a direct linear relationship between the lack of production funding and the pain in...

Documentary

There’s a new crew title going around the independent film sphere– “Producer of Marketing and Distribution,” or PMD— first coined by Jon Reiss in...

For all the ego in the film industry, it’s interesting how screenwriters tend to find themselves in a fairly egoless realm. They’ll commit to...

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‘Here’s this kid from some po-dunk town in Florida who dreamed all his life of playing in the NFL – the big leagues. Making...

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In October I was fortunate enough to attend the Matador Records 21st Anniversary concert in Las Vegas.  Amidst all the aging fans of indie...