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I'm planning on travelling to Cannes 2021 from the UK for this July's festival and wanted to start a discussion to find out how others are planning their trip.

When in Cannes I w…

Now the new headache is the requirement to self-isolate for UK travellers to France!

A small group (4 max 5 including me) and I want to make a short film using an office (which has had a private office with windows or glass to see the main communal office outside)…

Another crowdfunder?!... I'm afraid so.

They say when it comes to acting there are no small parts. Well when it comes to crowdfunding there are no small donations; especially wh…

I'm looking for a producer to team up with to apply for the BFI Network film fund. But the question is, do I have to pay the producer from the day he/she starts the application pr…

Buppha hi
Is this a feature or a short? If it's a feature, you can add me if all else fails. But if they require a full budget, you'll need to get a line or production manager to …

Hi everyone,

First time posting in the community. I have my debut comedy short film SWAT that’s well under way. It’s about an old man who is intent on ridding his home of a fly w…

I recently had a conversation with one of our SP 'members'. The person expressed experience based concern about intellectual and creative theft.

We know how difficult it is to pr…

The film industry isn't unique to issues of intellectual theft. There are a few others.

Two things come to mind though with reference to film and television IP.

1. Protection wo…

Hello from Richard in UK, I am enquiring to finance help for a planned low-budget film set in world war1.
I need to know if anyone has financial connections or can help me finan…

I have both investment banking experience helping raise financial capital as well as extensive experience with producing and funding films.
Happy to chat to see if there's any syn…

Hello from Richard-1 I am enquiring as trying to raise funds for a film, do I try to raise for the whole film on one site,
like Kickstarter, or try to raise the amount, £200,000 …

There are specific rules and regulations you need to follow when making any financial promotion to potential investors.
I've been helping people to raise investment legally for a…

What should the percentage ownership/fee be for a novelist and screenwriter co-writing an adaptation of the novelist's novel into a feature screenplay? How best to get professiona…

In my experience as a regular adaptor of novels for the screen, 50/50 is a pretty good way to go, even where the novelist is also the screenwriter. It serves pretty well as the ba…

I've found that DVD/Blu-ray commentaries are a great source of screenwriting advice from (obviously) produced screenwriters and writer-directors, and I was wondering if my fellow …

Dear SP community,

I hope everyone is doing as well as can be, during this time.

I’ve been a member of Shooting People for seven years now; and my membership’s expiration date i…

Thank you: Paul, James, and John taking the time to reply. It's truly appreciated.

James, I don't have a smartphone; however I do have a reel—which was enough to get me an avai…

I'm thinking of taking up the Zipcar offer which sounds great.
The only thing is I've read some less than complementary reviews about them. Do any shooters have any experiences wi…

I'm a long-standing Zipcar member. I joined around 2007, when it was called Streetcar. Streetcar became Zipcar a few years later.

On occasions when I think I will go over my init…

I'm on the hunt for a sea-side caravan park location. South East England ideally but casting my net wide at this stage.
Older, dated caravans would be a bonus.

Has anyone any kno…

Thanks Paddy,
Yes I'm actually enquiring way ahead of time and looking to shoot end of season as we will probably need three or four caravans together! Thanks for the ideas. I wil…

Help! Are there any script supervisors who can help with pick up scenes for a short film. This weekend?! Two actors. Great producer. Extraordinary circumstances unfortunately. So …

Hello,

I am looking for a co-writer to collaborate in developing a screenplay that is currently being redrafted.

A family story, set in present-day London - think Noah Baumbach,…

Hello Lovely Shooters,

Now that things are starting to happen again, I thought I would try to film a last silly video and here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95CBZ6T5PTM…

I hate showreels. I don't really think they do the job they're supposed to so I've been experimenting with a different approach. Instead of a showreel I've made a little film abou…

I love this idea and it obviously needs to be well executed, which of course it is! Nice and refreshing. I hate showreels too

Hello everybody,

I'm going to make my first experience into stills photography, I am aware it takes specific skills / approach. For this reason, I was wondering to propose myself…

Well, "hi mate, look, at my own expense I'd like to shadow you in order to learn everything you know and then compete with you for the limited amount of paid work available", so, …

I just made this Youtube video breaking down what I did to make my last short film, which I made with no crew and a budget of $600 -
https://youtu.be/Xj1vov4XEk0

The Youtube vide…

I'm beginning work on a documentary project which requires conducting a number of interviews via Zoom. I was wondering whether anyone has advice on a good microphone I could use f…

Hi Dorothy,

I would recommend the "Zoom h2n" (I know it sounds like a joke, but it's called "Zoom" far ahead of the Zoom meeting company was founded!). It's a great microphone yo…

The shortest is set in contemporary North East England in a newsagent and is about a confrontation over race. The longer one is set in the trenches in France during WWI with a s…

I am an ambient noise artist seeking collaboration with film makers, preferably abstract but very open to suggestions and to take the lead from a director's ideas.

Listen to my m…

Hi Jake, really sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I really like your films Exstasis and the CHANNEL 4 / PEN that really set the scene with a mixture of abstractions and…

I have an arty little film in the pipeline, for which I need a decent size living room (or possibly a bedroom / study). Wooden floorboards, preferably stained dark. A window that …

Happy to share with the SP community that my recent short film "A Fallen Fruit" that I made during my time in Asia will be streaming live for 48-hours on paus.tv. The film won the…

Thanks Phillip. Glad you enjoyed it.

Hi all,
I'm looking for recommendations for documentaries or experimental documentaries that reconstruct the past in creative ways. I like how Sarah Polley did with Stories We Tel…

Shirkers by Sandi Tan: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7472352/
The Nannies by Signe Barvild Stæhr: https://mubi.com/films/the-nannies

Both use re-enactment in unexpected ways.