Tag Archives: films
DIY Filmmaking: The Business Plan

Business plans may be a new thing for you. They may be old hat. But writing them and getting them down right is an art and science.

Veronica’s Haunt Update

We’ve received 2 more donations of $25 each, bringing the funding up to $255. We’ve officially passed the 25% threshold! We’re getting there, with about 35 days left.

Greetings Wall Street Journal readers

If you’re stumbling across this site from my interview on Jeff Opdyke’s recent Running with Scissors column, welcome!

Veronica’s Haunt page is up

Within 48 hours we’ve received $205 in donations for Veronica’s Haunt. It’s amazed me how fast people have responded to this crowdfunding experiment.

An Experiment in Crowdfunding

Crowdfunded films are becoming more and more popular. This is an experiment with a short film to see if it truly works.

The Cursed on SyFy

After a long wait, The Cursed is now being broadcast on the SyFy Channel. It will premiere on Saturday, February…

The Cursed Premiere Report

After a long a restful weekend, here’s how the premiere for The Cursed went here in McMinnville at the United Steelworkers Union Hall on June 25th.

Investing in Movies – A Realistic Perspective

Given the amount of traffic my other post about investing in movies and trying to clear the air about the reality of independent filmmaking these days, I realized there were quite a number of salient points which were not included in the original. Included here is a followup to that post with some in-depth information for potential investors, laying it all out as to why things aren’t what they think they are these days versus 5-8 years ago.

Making Movies Ain’t What It Used To be

Right now seems to be as good a time as any to talk about the state of the economy and its effect on filmmaking. I’ve heard it all from both sides of the fence now, both good and bad.