Very courageous email / post of you Marty.  Not many want to hear that some think they are just "playing" at being a filmmaker.  Yup... Truth hurts.  I suppose that's the case with just about any endeavor, whether it be an artistic one or not.  Some people are really serious about it... Some just play at it hoping to get lucky without really doing any hard work.   That's why we see so many names come and go.  How many filmmakers from SIFF of, say, 10 years ago are still working at it today? …

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Here is a recent post to the LA Producer's Group in comment on how to use projection comparable data in a film business plan:

"Most projections serve as a disservice because they are just based on comps

which don't accurately reflect the reality of a project's profitable

prospects. Saying that, if you want a more realistic tool... especially to help

with negotiations and contracts, make sure the projections includes a

sources and uses regressive analysis with proven… Continue

Happy to report The Studio Center's and Frank Casanova's "Beatrice & The Bike Thief" has been accepted in the 7th Annual San Diego International Children's Film Festival and will screen on Sunday afternoon August 15th. Also, we've just received an invitation to a New York Film Festival... We'll keep you posted.

It's called "Runaway Productions"...Making movies (of any significant budget) has been moving our of California for the past few decades. Now it's getting critical for those who make their livings making movies... Mostly folks living in Los Angeles. I had to repost the following commentary from the LA Producers Group Forum:



It is not just runaway production, it is the general dumbing down of America and the screamingly constant increasing stupidity of on-screen content driven by… Continue