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"Fresh off the record-obliterating opening weekend of “Avengers: Endgame,” directors Joe and Anthony Russo waded …

Hello there everyone!

My name is Lucy, the producer at Counter Productions Films and I'm currently producing my final graduation film 'Nice to Meet You, Florence!' and principle …

Hi, I'm Mark... a Multi-Award-Winning Indie Filmmaker and my script 'My Week with Maisy' a 'beautiful comedy' about cancer has to date won 9x Best Screenplay/Best Dialogue Awards.…

The event will take place once a month. Ideally , I'm looking for a writer but others considered too.

The basics that you would need to do are:

Help me to:
Find a venue – privat…

Accommodation available for the festival. Please contact filmpartners@andbut.co.uk for more information.

I have a 25 min rough cut edit of a short documentary series, and I have an funding source who's willing to invest as long as I can convince him the documentary film 25-min series…

Many thx

Hi there!

My name is Ira, I’m a filmmaker, editor and colourist based in London. Last few months I've been trying to find people to participate in my project which is free music…

Dear all out there,

I need to fix the subtitles document (SRT) into a more suitable format for VIMEO before release my short online abd also to embedd it into my in development …

Mark I am so sorry i just noticed your message now...thank you for your time and advice!

I've been doing some research into crowdfunding and trying to understand how to motivate people to support a campaign.

With my own (indiegogo campaign), so far it's only been my …

Hi,

I think in the early days of Kickstarter etc, getting a signed script or to spend a day on set (as part of the reward) was new and exciting to many non-filmmakers. Nowadays i…

Short Film Distribution company "Fabulosis FIlms" is available for sale.

Fabulosis Films is one of the few short film distributors in England and Europe. We have contacts with a…

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Short Film Distribution company "Fabulosis FIlms" is available for sale.

Fabulosis Films is one of the few short film distributors in England and Europe. We have contacts with a…

Hello, For anyone who is interested, please send me an email to discuss. Please only get in touch if you are ready to purchase a company. No time wasters please.

Hello! Here I am, once again, asking for advice.

For the last year or so I've been working on a documentary that my co-director and I shot in the Caribbean. We are now approachin…

I did some finishing work and subtitles last year on an Indie UK gangster feature film which had similar issues in terms of slang and some non-English swear words (mostly mixed Pu…

I'm an award winning screenwriter with a number of shorts and features available. I've written a number of (now) produced shorts which have a good track record with festival runs.…

Hi Dorothy, I've also posted there too. Just covering another base. :)

Hello Shooters,

Last week film blogger Amy Clarke interviewed me. Recently she has interviewed other directors such as Kate Herron (Sex Education, Netflix), Luke Rufo, Jay Mouss…

Great interview, some good advice too. Thanks for sharing!

I have two short films I am looking to create DCPs for. One film I've produced and one I've directed.

I would love to hear any practical advice on creating your own DCPs.

Any s…

Thank you so much for all the really helpful responses!

I'm quite lucky that I have a good friend who works as a projectionist at an indie cinema near me so she'll be able to te…

We're looking for ambitious local actors, actresses, production crew, film, camera, editor, make-up etc to form a local group. We are based in Essex near Lakeside (Dartford Crossi…

Hello Everyone,

I would like your advice on my showreel for sound recording, if you could spare some time to ha a look at it and tell me your thoughts that would be much apprecia…

Which pubs out there screen short films and encourages filmmakers networking? Top 5 or 10? Thanks in advance guys and girls!!!

Hi everyone,
I co-run Forest Film Club. We have a monthly short film evening called Short Film Thursdays which is at The Birds in Leytonstone on the last Thursday of every month.…

I'm currently re-building my film company's website where we'll be selling downloads of our films, dvds, blurays and merch.
We'd be driving traffic to it and promoting our product…

Thanks so much Ray, we're still building the website but we're getting close. I'm aiming to have it ready in February, so not too long now.
I'll get all the info you need just a…

Why do people not put their short films online?

**Just to be clear - I'm not talking about those ropey old bits of work people are happy to keep hidden away**

I'm talking about …

My film The Gun Man was picked up by Shorts TV for online distribution, so I can't have it on my Vimeo or You Tube Channel. (I can still screen it live and sell DVDs). Yes, it's h…

Hey guys this January we're going to be hosting another film networking event called Cine Circle but besides film networking we've got an amazing pitch competition taking place! Y…

Hey guys, just to clarify, the winner will win all three of the above not just one. The £200 is more of a prize as it is very low to consider funding for the film. The crowdfundin…

Here's one of the challenges for independent film makers. There's often a disconnect between the kinds of films you want to make and the type of films that are successful in tradi…

@John Lubran
Absolutely. One of the most knowledgeable voices to thankfully grace this forum.

Does anyone have any experience of distributing their film via Vimeo On Demand?

Interested in how people have found it, and whether there is the sense of an audience and a commun…

A very interesting debate guys! Well, I fell in the same trap of the Vimeo VOD too, hoping I'll make some good sales but only realised, that I am advertising Vimeo services (who r…

Hello Shooters,

If you're in London and want to see a film project truly evolve come see 'The Executioner Inside' begin life as a stage production before shooting as my 14th ind…

Please accept my sincerest apologies for anyone reading this tomorrow morning but just spotted this amazing offer from Chris Jones. "I personally cannot recommend this offer highl…

Hi Mark, really excellent news and you're very welcome indeed. I'm so very pleased that someone was able to take advantage of the offer, a really incredible discount, thank you fo…