5 Steps for Producing a Nonprofit Film

Producing a non-profit film can be difficult because the work is so important. There’s a looming social/humanitarian/environmental problem and taking…

An Executive Producer Breaks Down the ‘TUMI x Chris Pratt’ Spot

Take Stink Studio’s Executive Producer Omid Fatemi, for example. He’s behind the TUMI x Chris Pratt spot, which is simple…

Why You Should Make a Micro-Budget Feature Film (and How)

Micro-budget filmmaking is not for the faint of heart. You end up wearing multiple hats, taking on debt, asking friends…

The Art of Articulation: A Conversation with Alex Buono

Whether it’s documentaries, mockumentaries, feature films, or wildly popular television shows, you can probably find it somewhere on Alex Buono’s…

The Nitty-Gritty Art of Being a Producer

It takes a lot of people to make a film, but only a handful of them get much credit. Director.…

4 Lessons Learned by Making Passion Projects

Every project comes with its own lessons. There are lessons in failure and success, lessons in easy clients and difficult…

“You’d Better Love It”: Inside the World of an Indie Film Producer

From the outside, it’s not always clear what a producer does. Turns out it’s the same on the inside. “There’s…

How NFL Insider Rand Getlin Found Creative Freedom in Filmmaking

There's nothing harder than doing work that conflicts with what you truly believe. So, instead of changing your mindset to…

How Two Filmmakers Turned Their Web Series into an ABC Show

It was tempting to open this interview with some sort of dog cliché about learning new tricks or letting them…

Behind The North Face’s Mind-Blowing ‘Imagination’

There are a lot of action-sports films out there. A lot. Maybe that’s because in extreme sports the drama is…