Thomas Verdi

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May 2, 2020

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…

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April 23, 2020

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…

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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…

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April 16, 2020

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,…

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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…

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April 6, 2020

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,…

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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…

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March 30, 2020

14 Ways to Get Your Independent Short Film Seen

We’ve added even more ways to get your film seen in our HIGH CONCEPT video below! You’ve wrapped production of your film,…

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12 Free Post-Production Resources for Motion Graphics, Titles, and More

Wrapping production of your film represents an amazing accomplishment, but many say that the film itself is really created during post-production and…

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March 23, 2020

Funded Filmmaker Showcase: Don Fanelli

Writer and director of the short film “Sunday Dinner” — funded by The Film Fund! — answered some of our questions about…

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How to Minimize Sound Design Costs in Your Film Budget

Sound design can be thought of in a few different ways. What does a sound designer do in film, and what is…

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March 16, 2020

7 Post-Production Tools That Prove Video Editors Can Work From Home

This post is completely un-sponsored. These are tools we love and find useful for our post-production process! 🙂 Whether you’re quarantined because…

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