Here it is—the mother lode of different types of producers you may run into throughout your career. If you work strictly in the narrative or documentary film world, you may not encounter every producer on this list. If you’re looking to learn how to become a film producer in the […]
We hate to get you down, but no matter how much Google searching you do, there’s really no straightforward way to becoming a film producer. On top of that, there exists a myriad of different types of producers. For example, becoming a TV producer is very different than producing independent […]
Trigger warning: this post is going to be about… digital marketing. 😱”Storytelling” twisted into a crude form of the word, right? Well, not exactly. It can be fun—and creative! After all, it pretty much just means growing an audience for your films and then sharing your work with this audience […]
At The Film Fund, we offer film funding to independent filmmakers so they can make their short films. How much does it cost to shoot a short film? To make a high-production value short film, you need a crew, equipment, and a cast, and you need to pay these people, […]
If you can’t get to the heart of it within a couple of sentences, then it’s too complicated of a story line, or you don’t actually know the story you’re looking to tell. Matthew Greenberg, Director of “Treehouse” and Previous Winner of The Film Fund One of the most useful […]
Many of our members in the FF Studios chat community have asked what gear they should be using on their low-budget independent short films. We said that it really depends on your budget, your project, and what you want to accomplish, and while we did recommend some gear in the […]
We’ve added even more ways to get your film seen in our HIGH CONCEPT video below! You’ve wrapped production of your film, and you’ve reached final cut. You took all of your short film ideas and actually made something out of them. Congratulations! Seriously: that’s a huge accomplishment whether you’re […]
Wrapping production of your film represents an amazing accomplishment, but many say that the film itself is really created during post-production and the video editing process — “The Edit,” as they say. Not sure how to structure your film budget breakdown? Download our free film budget template here. Depending on […]
Writer and director of the short film “Sunday Dinner” — funded by The Film Fund! — answered some of our questions about why he writes and directs. Don pitched a one-sentence entry that had our judges in stitches, and it also presented a compelling premise and a great use of […]
Sound design can be thought of in a few different ways. What does a sound designer do in film, and what is sound design in film? Well, first off, it differs from sound design for theater (or “theatre” for the purists out there) in that it does not occur live. […]
This post is completely un-sponsored. These are tools we love and find useful for our post-production process! 🙂 Whether you’re quarantined because of the COVID-19 coronavirus or just want to enjoy the flexibility of being on a remote or distributed team, video editors can have it pretty easy when it […]
David Oster, writer and director of the short film we funded, “I Love Jazz,” answered some of our questions about why he writes and directs film. We funded David’s project because of his pitch’s compelling premise and its creative use of funds. “The Film Fund allows filmmakers a chance to […]