Need to Make a Film Budget? Check out the ShowBiz Labor Guide

If you are looking for a quick reference on how how much it costs to hire everything from a gaffer to a DP, the Show Biz Labor Guide provides quick one stop shopping.  You can find it’s downloadable and print books at www.showbizsoftware.com.  Using this resource means you won’t have to call twenty unions to …

So You Wanna Be a Wealthy Celebrity?

Not everyone wants to be a star. It is kind of a hassle actually. You don’t know how handy being anonymous is until millions of people know your name. That said, if you are a performer or a business professional, fame is a path to wealth, influence and an interesting social circle. Here are some …

PRLog.com

This is a great site to post free press releases on. It’s free, accepts pictures as well as URLs to webpages, and content posted here is quickly indexed by google and news.google.com. www.prlog.com Tweet

Kickstarter: Film Financing through Sponsors & Product Placement

Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative projects. They support artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers, writers, illustrators, explorers, curators, promoters, performers, and others, helping to bring their projects and ambitions to life. Kickstarter is not a place for charity projects, raising funds for business expenses (rent, payroll, etc), soliciting donations to causes (medical bills, etc), …

Matt Sigloch: From Marine Corps to Movie Set

Matt’s and his team of military professionals, called SIGLOCH-MT, have appeared in hundreds of feature films and television episodes including JERICHO, NCIS, CRIMINAL MINDS, COLD CASE, 24, W, TRUE LIES, DE JA VU, and the upcoming PINKVILLE by Oliver Stone.

Looking for Support for Your Film Projects? Here is How To Get It . . .

Almost every first time filmmaker is startled by just how hard it is to get people to help him make his project. Whether it’s the 1-day short film short they can’t get chairs for or the eight million dollar feature they can’t raise a dime for . . . they are dismayed that people are so unhelpful. If this is your experience, you may find these insights useful.

Film Funding Club Helps New Film & Webseries Producers Free

The in’s and out’s of making a profitable film can be quite confusing.  There are lots of important questions to be answered, and the wrong answers can represent some very expensive mistakes. How do you build a film project so it is fundable? How do you attach name talent? How do you find distribution? Where …

Production Insurance

Looking for cheap film production insurance? You need to know about FracturedAtlas.org. It is a New York Non-Profit that sells Hartford Film Production Insurance for a fraction of what you pay elsewhere. It cost less than Dice and offers more coverage. General liability, workers comp, equipment rental and more.

The Iron Triangle: Cast, Financing & Distribution

In order to produce a feature film you need many things, most of which are relatively easy to acquire. You’ll need a script, a camera, a camera man, lights, a location, etc. But the heart of your production, if your film is to be profitable, will be the Iron Triangle, which is to say a cast, financing and distribution.