Thomas Verdi

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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…