With changes in technology allowing for cheaper production and distribution than ever before, short films are exploding. But how do you get the damn thing funded? And how do you know which distribution options are legit? The new Shooting People book on short film is hot off the press to help you maneuver through the creativity and confusion of the new shorts landscape. The book is called Get Your Short Film Funded, Made and Seen and it will help you do just that. Editor Tricia Tuttle has done an amazing job creating a directory of contacts, as well as compiling interviews with filmmakers, funders and distributors. The focus of the book does tend towards Europe - but I conducted some US interviews to give a sense of what is happening this side of the pond so there are also interviews with people like Matt Dentler from SXSW, Trevor Groth from Sundance, Jason Meil from Curent TV, and Brent Hoff from Wholphin.

You can download the first chapter for free here:

shootingpeople.org/shortsbook

The Shooters gang are all up in Edinburgh for the film festival there at the moment. There is a limit to how much time I can spend on the road (unfortunately!) so I can’t be there this year. But you can follow the adventures of Shooting People on the Festival Focus blog and on Ben’s Blog - Ben is currently developing a feature project and has written lots of brilliant entries that I’m sure other filmmakers will identify with. He’s also a much better writer than me. Damn him.

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