1. What is Your Goal? Before jumping onto Twitter specifically for the benefit of promoting your next film (or film company), understand what your goals are. Are you actually there to promote your upcoming film? Are you there for other social reasons? Be specific about what your goals are. The answers – to promote your …
We welcome John Suits and Gabriel Cowan of New Artists Alliance (Bad Milo, Extracted, Static) to the podcast. In this episode, we discuss how John and Gabriel grew their company from mostly micro budgeted films to larger scale projects on a consistent basis. In this episode we cover: On attracting talent: The talent value equation: …
1. CUT THE HYPERBOLE Before the interview began Gordon said He was saying that no matter how you slice it, photography is art. There isn’t a hierarchy of realism over other styles, because in truth, “realism” doesn’t even exist. The question is how do you use the tools available to tell a story. Being “realistic” …
If you’ve checked out part 1 of our interview with Nancy, you are already familiar with the #1 note that she receives – Get to Oz faster. In this uncut podcast, we serve up more goodies, inspiring thoughts and behdind-the-scenes information from one of the top editors working today. Watch Nancy on In the Cut: …
Richard Boddington debut feature was a self financed $150,000 genre film, Dark Reprieve. The film went on to be picked up and distributed nationally by Image Entertainment. What’s great about Richard’s story is how he went about making his first film, his take aways, and then more importantly, how he leveraged that into his next …
Hollywood accounting for many is a mystery at best. Meet Steven Sills. Steven is co-author of Movie Money: Understanding Hollywood’s (Creative) Accounting Practices. He is a certified public accountant, a certified fraud examiner, a certified financial forensic, and a member of the California bar. Think CSI in the world of of Hollywood accounting. Steven was …
In the editing world you would be hard pressed to find many more accomplished editors that Lynzee Klingman. She is a terrific editor, with a huge number of credits to her name, but what it most fascinating is how she got her start. The gang here at Craft Truck had the pleasure of sitting down …
Spend an hour with Lynzee Klingman in this uncut podcast of her In the Cut interview. Lynzee is one of the worlds most venerated editors. She started here career with two Academy Award documentary picturs and then went onto edit One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Her work includes such films as A River Runs …
Maren Olson runs Traction Media. Based in Los Angeles, they do everything from developing, producing, packaging and selling independent film. Their primary business is selling films in the US marketplace. What do you look at when evaluating a project? How does budget impact your role as sales agent? Maren’s Packaging & presentation tips for the …
While Dan is a wonderful storyteller in his own right, there were some specific pearls of wisdom which came from his interview that we’d like to (admittedly) spin-off, interpret, highlight, and codify. And let’s start out by saying that none of these items is about match-on-action, frame-trimming, or screen geography. These are the big, large …