Dood knows a few things about how a good, cheap indie film – like, say, his legendary DESPERADO – can create a career, and, fortunately, he’s the kind who shares what he knows:
Robert Rodriguez on How to Make the Film that’ll Get You “Discovered”
Month: June 2015
How to Land Big Name Talent in Your Indie Production
It’s all about excellence, pure and simple. Giving the star something to love. Noam Kroll explains:
by Noam Kroll
Most indie film directors and producers that are just starting out will feel that they have no chance of landing well known actors in their project. Many of them incorrectly assume that you need a multi-million dollar budget to hire name talent or that you need an “in” with a major talent agency. While money and connections can certainly help make things easier, they are by no means the only way to attract talent. In fact, many independent films are able tocast incredible actors at reasonable rates.
The fact is that many established actors are willing to work on independent films under the right circumstances andcasting name talent can absolutely be done. Below, we’ll explore this by looking at four things to take into account when casting well known actors in your indie film.
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Peggy Bechko: How Talented are Your Characters? How Skillful?
Leesa Dean Tells Us About “The Not-So-Secret Showrunners/Writers World on Twitter and How It Saved My Script”
Adventures in Digital Series Land #103
by Lessa Dean
I’ve been working like a psycho. So busy, in fact, I blew off going to last night’s YouTube NYC’s chat with Pixar people, which really looked great (plus, I had an edit session). Here’s what I’ve up to:
Deep into animating the new series. At this point, I’m *hoping* I’ll be done in about 2-3 months. Working on three new projects with my production partner. We both were super busy/caught up in the winter and now are back working with a vengeance. It feels great and productive and I’m loving the projects.
Finally, working working working on rewrite/reimagining of a project I originally thought would be a digital series. Now I’m thinking of it as a 1/2 hour original pilot script and the Not-So-Secret Showrunners/Writers World on Twitter saved it. Let me me explain.
How ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ helped me embrace my queer identity
A touching testimonial to the power of television. And, of course, BUFFY:
by Anon
During the process of writing my last essay of my undergraduate degree in film, focusing on representation of queer women in Orange is The New Black and how it shows more diversity than earlier tv shows, one show that kept coming up was Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It surprised me. Buffy has been a huge part of my life, and I thought I knew everything there was to know about the show. But through the course of my research, I learned something I didn’t realize before: How much trouble the creator, Joss Whedon, had to go through to write about Willow and Tara, one of the first lesbian couples shown on TV.