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Bri Castellini: How To Make Your Film With Friends & Keep Them – @brisownworld

by Bri Castellini

Calling in favors is the true currency of indie filmmaking, and often the form of these favors is enlisting friends to be a part of your cast or crew. Perhaps you’re all equals, having gone into the project together to make something you’re all proud of. Perhaps one person created something cool and everyone else swarmed to support. In any case, though, mixing business with friendship and not having any money is bound to get complicated. Here are 6 tips I’ve learned or gleaned from fellow filmmakers on how to work with friends and actually stay friends with them.

1. Decide on a leader

From my How To Not Fight On Set article: read article

“How Dare You”

“How dare you!”

We all know the phrase above. It’s one we all say – or have a character say now and then or hear – whatever! – but do we say it, erm, right? Here’s etymologist Arika Okrent’s clever take on the subject:

More about Arika, YouTube’s Patron Saint of Wordsmiths

SCREENWRITER SALARY: WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

The answer to another question frequently asked by neophyte TV and screenwriters. Yes, there’s a bit of the dreaded overthink here, but what better way to be informed than to learn even more than you expected?

from Script Reader Pro

The goal of any aspiring screenwriter is to get paid for, well, writing. But what exactly does it take to be compensated for your work? What do you do once you’re offered money for a script? Is there even such a thing as a “screenwriter salary” in the first place? read article

Why Making a Sci-Fi Film Inspired Me to Fight Destiny and Sexism

Are destiny and gender forever interwoven? Here’s the story of a woman who refuses to accept such a fate:

5th Passenger, the wonderful film that gave a push to Morgan’s epiphany

by Morgan Lariah

“Anatomy is destiny, and you, Morgan, are going to have a very hard time.” read article

How to Get Your Script Read

An answer – not necessarily the answer because there is no one way to go about this – to the second most asked screenwriting question of all time. (In case you haven’t figured it out, the first is, “How do I get an agent?”)

There ya go. Now you’re all set. Right?

Right?