What baby steps do you advise beginners take to get up and running on You Tube? Getting noticed on YouTube is much harder today than it used to be. I got lucky enough to start my show when there wasn’t a lot of traffic to the site, so my shows would pop up more around [...]
Many people who visit Filmmakers Notebook may be aware that I have recently become Marketing Director for a new e-commerce and social networking platform called NOMOSA, which is designed to benefit all independent artists. The website provides tools and support for filmmakers, musicians, photographers, writers, artists and other creatives looking to build a fan base for and [...]
One of the best shows for filmmakers to grace internet radio is Film Courage, which airs every Sunday at Noon PT on LA Talk Radio. Co-hosts Karen Worden and David Branin have been building a supportive and devoted following by featuring informative and entertaining guests on their program, so I thought it would be fun to [...]
Video footage from the Q&A at the Las Vegas International Film Festival with Director Ash Adams after the screening of his film “Once Fallen”, which stars Ed Harris, Brian Presley, Amy Madigan, Taraji P. Henson, Peter Weller, Sharon Gless and Chad Lindberg. Share on Facebook
The second part of my Q&A interview with Producer/Actress Charlene Blaine-Schulenburg concentrating on her point of view as a film producer. Q. What made you decide to start your own production company? A. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been a story teller and have dreamed of ‘creating’ stories. In 1993 I helped [...]
Steve Marra, Director of the independent film “Amanda”, had reason to smile last May as he celebrated the movie’s red carpet premiere along with cast members Ariana Dubynin (Amanda) and Bill Bannister (Bob Bender) at the Giordano Theatre housed in the Las Vegas Hilton. Marra, who helms Adrenaline Motion Pictures, wrote the screenplay, produced and [...]
Developing marketing plans for independent features and shorts is becoming a necessity for filmmakers, especially in view of the current financing and distribution challenges facing them. As co-producer of “Accused” I’ve been handling promotion, which has proven in some ways to be a juggling act. At this point we are in the final stages of [...]
Recently I received a few requests for information regarding any upcoming film funding events and there are two on the calendar that I’m familiar with, one this month and the other in September. First of all, The Incentives Office is holding a Summer Spectacular Incentives Symposium on Friday, July 30th at the Landmark Theatre in West Los [...]
Academy Award Winner Mark Boal’s journey from journalist to screenplay writer was an interesting one that began long before he wrote the “The Hurt Locker” he explained at the 2010 Campus Moviefest. Graduating from Oberlin College as a philosophy major, he became a journalist while travelling through Eastern Europe. From there he moved on to New York, [...]
Ironically enough, the first workshop I attended at the 2010 Movie Campusfest Grand Finale held at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas last weekend was led by Sam Eigen, Executive Vice Present at Shoreline Entertainment discussing Movie Sales and Distribution. I use the word ironically for two reasons. First of all, I saw Sam speaking a week earlier at the [...]