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[Watch the video interview on Youtube here] Film Courage: What is one of your favorite opening works of fiction? Jonathan Blum, Author/Instructor: I brought...
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[Watch the video interview on Youtube here] Film Courage: How do you answer the writer who says why do I get stuck? Alan...
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[Watch the video interview on YouTube here] The core principle — know your market So, like any product that you’re designing for a commercial...
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As part of Film Courage, you know how devastated our industry has been because of the economic downturn and the technological changes. Filmmakers, of...
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I have always been drawn to stories that are from another era. I grew up watching a lot of BBC costume dramas, science...
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It’s easy to think of quitting as a singular action, a “f*ck you” to whomever you feel has wronged you. After all, no one...
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KRIS AND LINDY BOUSTEDT We’re a married filmmaking duo. Since 2007, we’ve worked on six shorts (as writers, directors, editors or producers) and two features...
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On Day 5, it stopped raining. For the length of the production, the out-of-town chunk of the production (myself, Ben Moseley, AD Jennifer Hegarty,...
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Writing a script is a lot of work. “Anyone who says otherwise is selling you something,” a liar, or a prodigy. I’m a...
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(CLASSICFILMSCHOOL.COM and RETROSPECHT.COM) There was a time when I didn’t think much of my name. Nowadays Carrie is a pretty common name, used in...
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One good thing about a justified bit of yelling is that sometimes things get fixed. Gone are yesterday’s flimsy garbage bags. Today we’ve got...
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Invariably, the question filmmakers always get at festivals is, “So what’s next?” For the past year, my answer in regards to Connect To...
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