Thomas Verdi
How to Be a Good Film or Video Producer
Being a producer means putting together a project and seeing that project through to completion. It boils down to hiring the director…
How to Stretch Your Budget as a Film Director or Producer
Whether you’re a director, an executive producer, or both, your job is to complete the film on time and under budget. One…
Funded Filmmaker Showcase: Katie Sadler
Katie Sadler is not your typical filmmaker (whatever “typical” means, anyway). She’s also a dancer, and she channels her excitement for and…
Film School FAQs: Is It a Waste of Money?
Is undergraduate or even graduate film school a waste of money? Well, it really depends on your circumstances and what you wish…
6 Film Producing Drills You Wish You Had in Film School
If you’d rather watch this blog post as a video, you can watch our episode of HIGH CONCEPT below. Film school can…
11 Ways Your Film Crew Can Make or Break Your Indie Film
In most cases, you can’t make an incredible short film without a stellar crew. This crew will be there to help execute…
19 Different Types of Film (and Agency) Producers From Executive Producer to Line Producer
Here it is—the mother lode of different types of producers you may run into throughout your career. If you work strictly in…
How to Become a Film Producer
We hate to get you down, but no matter how much Google searching you do, there’s really no straightforward way to becoming…
Film Marketing: Not Just Your Short Film
Trigger warning: this post is going to be about… digital marketing. 😱”Storytelling” twisted into a crude form of the word, right? Well,…
How to Produce a No-Budget Quarantine Film
At The Film Fund, we offer film funding to independent filmmakers so they can make their short films. How much does it…
Funded Filmmaker Showcase: Matthew Greenberg
If you can’t get to the heart of it within a couple of sentences, then it’s too complicated of a story line,…
Ask a DP: What Camera Is Best for a Low-Budget Film?
Many of our members in the FF Studios chat community have asked what gear they should be using on their low-budget independent…
