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I am planning to expand the amount of consulting work that I do and thought a good place to start might be to throw it open to an informal discussion.

Are there a…

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Hello Shooters!

Hope you're all well... :)

I'm debating between Kickstarter and Indiegogo on how to fund my short film.

I'd like to ask you how do I go about choosing which is…

Hi Shooters,

I got some great correspondence from you all, thank you so much!

Alexandra!!!

Hello all,

I've just finished my first fictional short (http://garrettandgarrett.co.uk/last-contact/) and am looking for advice about how best to set it out in the world.

So far…

Thank you Kays and Maria,

Film markets are not something I know anything about so thanks for highlighting that, I'll look into it more.

Great advice from everyone, very much ap…

Dear shooters,

We'll be testing 2 x super35mm cameras, due to be officially realised in 2015. We are taking those to the highest volcano on earth, between Argentina and Chile - O…

Still very interested ! ;)

As all eyes are on Sony and (here at least) the long-term impact The Interview debacle might have on theatrical distribution, it all seems to be happening just as Hollywood is rea…

Everything changes and nobody expects the unexpected. I've been around long enough to remember the early 1970s, when mainstream movies were generally flat and predictable and pred…

A funding body is requiring me to form a company for accessing a developemnt fund. I need to form a limited company. Has anyone any experience in doing this?

If you can't cope with setting up a company yourself directly with companies house, you won't be able to cope with making a film. It's easy and costs £15 - use the default Article…

Hi Shooters,

Does anyone have any experience of working with producers in China on co-productions and can recommend a company?

Or can point me to someone to talk to about Chines…

Thanks all for the detailed responses.

I was at China Image recently in London and met some interesting people. Sounds like there is a huge appetite for co-productions now that t…

As much as I love making films, I've found the working with my fellow filmmakers to make web series can be a way to make projects more efficiently. I was lucky enough to have the…

Hey, this all sounds positive. I'm a producer and in the process of developing a narrative web series. I'd welcome connecting with anyone who has experience or knowledge and willi…

An aggregator is asking for an upfront fee of £150 to place my short on itunes.
Does anyone have any experience with a short on itunes? The kind of yearly revenue etc?

Thanks.

B…

Alève thanks!! I got a good response from the KFA. Am going to send them some of my films.
I really appreciate everyones responses! I will place one of the films on iTunes and th…

Hi fellow Shooters!

I am very proud to say that my short film C.T.R.L has been awarded Best Music Video at Cortisonanti, an Italian Short Film Festival, the award handed to me by…

Hi Mark, Tasha,

Thank you very much for suggesting PromoNews, I will get in touch with them as soon as we go public.

In the meantime if you'd like to watch C.T.R.L, please jus…

This film has proved to be a very different type of campaign film and very popular amongs thousands of ordinary people in dozens of public screenings. Almost everyone seems to li…

I suggest you watch it because it is precisely because it doesn't fit into the regular boxes and that is what makes it popular and also (maybe) difficult. The WI's and Royal Briti…

Bundles is a publishing platform for artists, musicians, filmmakers, and creators who wish to distribute and retain ownership of their content on their own terms: http://techcrunc…

I'm sure ISPs will do all they can to throttle BT if they can detect it (where VPN or other SSL tunnelling methods come in); and, to be fair, it is bandwidth-intensive because of …

Cannot find list of SALES AGENTS - Can you help?
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Hello Shooters!

I'm traveling to Stockholm next month (14th December 2014), are there any Short Film Competitions that I could submit my 15min short film?
Are there any useful re…

I have two shorts that are finishing a run in a few international festivals. I'd like to get them on an online retail platform. Any advice would be amazing : )

Hi Shooters!

Do you know where I could find a list with short film festivals in the UK and Sweden?
Is there any website or forum regardless any competitions for film makers?
Is a…

Hi guys.

I'm travelling to Stockholm next month, so I'd like to know if there are any other Short Film Festivals (in the capital and across the country), apart from the Internat…

Way back on Shooting People I introduced our slime mould documentary The Creeping Garden which was in the last stages of post production and as a couple of people showed some inte…

@Tim iloobia Woooo... At the risk of sounding like a stalker, I recall there was a return address in Tufnell Park on the envelope when I bought the Kanzeon DVD a while back. Speak…

CEO of Alamo Draft House (a distributor) had a great keynote for Film Independent that I think everybody here will find some value in. You can watch it here:

https://www.youtube.…

Some good and useful comments and observations from the usual suspects ;-))

As ever I try to put things into the context of actual Law beyond legislative presumption, because eve…

A short film I made is currently being submitted to festivals. One American festival has asked that I use the program "Handbrake" to convert the film in to an "Apple TV 3" format …

Is the sound clipping, or is it compression artefacting? If the latter, look at the audio bitrate which is separate from the video bitrate. 30fps ought to be irrelevant.

Hi,

I've got a short showing at 3 prestigious 3D festivals this autumn. Only 84 seconds!

We had some problems with the iSpeed cameras (we shot at 1000fps) and have done extensiv…

Hi Karel

Are you still looking? I can help you with this. Send me a private message.

Chris

I am looking for a feature to distribute using a hybrid indie/self distribution model. Just looking at documentary features at the moment (over 80 minutes) completed or near compl…

Hi Chris,

Might also be worth going to a documentary festival and keeping your eyes open - they'll effectively be doing some of the filtering/curation for you plus you'll get to …

I have managed to get the BFI to release data on the past three years' worth of grant applications. I've broken down the results here http://stephenfollows.com/how-many-bfi-fundi…

Thanks for doing that Stephen - looking forward to having a look at the results!

Hi Shooters,

Is there any website or forum, listing found support institutions such as British Council or crowdfounding pages such as kickstarter or indiegogo?

Regards

Alexandr…

Also, don't overlook the 'opportunities' section of this site

Hi, Everyone.

I directed a short film called 'Hired Guns' using one location with four actors.

Hired Guns is about two hit men hired to retrieve a missing brief case. We jump in…

Jan - You sir have the right attitude.
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ” - Anthony Robbins

Peter - "Just you and a couple of mates prob…

Guvnor Media ltd are launching a new channel in their already successful online TV company. The new TV channel will showcase independent filmmakers and films including interviews …