Katie Sadler is not your typical filmmaker (whatever “typical” means, anyway). She’s also a dancer, and she channels her excitement for and curiosity of many disciplines into her work, allowing her to develop creative worlds. Katie wrote a one-sentence pitch, and our judges selected her entry as a winner, granting […]
Is undergraduate or even graduate film school a waste of money? Well, it really depends on your circumstances and what you wish to get out of it. I didn’t go to film school, but some of our blog writers and judges did. I’ve worked on set with people who have […]
If you’d rather watch this blog post as a video, you can watch our episode of HIGH CONCEPT below. Film school can be an amazing option if you have the money to go to one of the best film schools. You’ll learn how to become a film producer, get hands-on […]
In most cases, you can’t make an incredible short film without a stellar crew. This crew will be there to help execute your vision as a filmmaker, and they’ll likely save you more times than you could count—and in more ways than we could fit in this list. But if […]
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 […]
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 an experienced award-winner or it was your first production. If you haven’t yet finished your short […]
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 […]