FIND ANSWERS: A Top Line Producer Tackles Filmmaker FAQs
As a filmmaker, you know when you’ve hit the line producer jackpot: you can rest assured knowing that every “i” will be dotted, every “t” will be crossed. We asked…
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Amber Sealey on Building a Crew and Bridging the Gender Gap
Film Independent Fellow and Los Angeles Film Festival alum Amber Sealey has been garnering a lot of attention lately for her highly successful Indiegogo campaign raising funds for her third…
Know Your Crew: What the First AD Does and How He Does It
Last month, Film Independent began a series of education events called “Know Your Crew,” for which we bring in industry professionals with different jobs on a crew and they explain…
CASE STUDY: The Making of ‘Chasing Coral’
Every other week on the blog, we dig into the archives from Film Independent Education and examine, in detail, one film’s production journey. Our hope is that filmmakers will take lessons from…
Interview: Spirit Award Winner Stefon Bristol Learns How To ‘Breathe’
Filmmaker Stefon Bristol’s 2019 debut See You Yesterday (Netflix) demonstrated the filmmaker’s deft ability to blend tones and legibly render a complex time-travel story injected with social consciousness and the…
Survey Says: Brad Pitt, Babies and Barf – Our Fellows’ Best Days on Set (Part One)
Every day on a film set is a new adventure. Like if your romantic leads suddenly decide they hate each other. Or the set floods. Or the number of pages…
Know Your Crew: Line Producer Angela Sostre’s Tips for Building a Better Budget
As part of Know Your Crew—Film Independent’s regular Tuesday night educational series giving an in-depth look at key below-the-line positions—Angela Sostre stopped by Film Independent to discuss the role of…
The Must-List: 8 Movies About Movies That Make Filmmaking Look Totally Insane
Movies about movies have been a regular part of the entertainment industry since the invention of filmmaking itself. It’s like the old motivational placard says: write what you know. And…
‘JT LeRoy’ Director Dramatizes a Landmark Literary Hoax
You don’t need a trend piece in a glossy magazine or upward-ticking hashtag to know that grifters, scammers and con artists are currently having a moment. From dueling docs on…
LA Film Fest Spotlight: How the Overnighters Got Made
The Overnighters is part of this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival Summer Showcase and we couldn’t be happier. The award-winning documentary from filmmaker Jesse Moss starts off by exploring how…
Time and Money: How a Good Line Producer Can Help You Save Both
Film Independent Members recently gathered to hear veteran line producer Angela Sostre as she poured out a firehose of information about what a line producer is, what they do and…
Know Your Crew: How the Script Supervisor Keeps It All On Track
The job of a script supervisor was devised around the ten arbitrary things that nobody else on set wanted to do. Aprill Winney, an indie film veteran who is a…