Every director will tell you something else, which is important to them while casting. Everything you will read below is based on my own experience while working with the actors. 1. Trust. Can you trust one another? I know it’s hard to say after a fifteen-minute conversation but you can feel pretty much instantaneously whether…
Questions I Hate Being Asked as a Filmmaker
1. Are you a professional filmmaker? – I always want to reply: No I’m just bored and have too much time on my hands. 2. Have I seen any of your films? – Well, how can I know? If you are asking whether my movies were screened in the theatres, this is a different question…
What Support Female Filmmakers Need From You To Change Our Film Culture?
1. Watch films made by women at the theatres, preferably during the opening weekend, at film festivals, on TV, and online. 2. If a woman filmmaker runs a crowdfunding campaign, support her. Every penny counts so don’t think your contribution won’t make a difference. Your spared morning coffee could make or break our campaign. 3….
List of 10 Ideas To Make Your Film’s Self-Distribution Successful
1. Setting up your distribution goals is as important as assembling a team of creative minds to help you achieve them. If you are working with an issue-driven film, like my feature film “Anna & Modern Day Slavery”, you should see how you can use the subject matter to attract an audience and create impact with…
7 Things You Need to Do Before Going Live With Your Crowdfunding Campaign
1. Have your campaign video ready, and don’t make it longer than 2,5 – 3 mins. There is plenty of content online, and the audience has a short attention span, so you need to pitch them quickly and efficiently, and the research shows that 2 minutes for doing that is ideal. But I’m suggesting a…
Social Media Is Not So Bad
Social media is here to stay, and as creatives, I feel we should make peace with that fact instead of going up the river trying to figure out “how to make it” without using these, very often, free tools that the Internet and social media offer. I know that for a lot of us in…
List of My Favourite Filmmaking and Writing Books
Below you will find the list of my favourite books about filmmaking and writing. I love to read those books and go back to them time and time again. I hope you will find the list useful and helpful. Writing “Good In A Room” by Stephanie Palmer – a handy book for anyone willing to…
Lessons to Be Learnt from Richard Hendricks
The Silicon Valley show has been on for five seasons already. I watched them all, and I must say that I liked season 5 the most. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, it depicts a story about a group of coders working in the Silicon Valley, following their dreams, pushing through, and not…
To All Fellow Women Filmmakers
Let me start by saying that I admire all the women filmmakers immensely. It takes lots of guts and determination to stay in this business after years of neglect, sometimes abuse and mostly just being ignored because you are a woman and, according to some, a woman cannot tell a visual story that is successful…
My 9-Year Old Son’s Advice to Dudes in the Film Industry
Driving to the swimming pool, Little M. noticed a billboard advert with Benedict Cumberbatch. Little M. remembered Benedict from one of the Star Trek movies (I’m a big fan of Star Trek) and as any child his age he immediately got excited that he remembered this actor (even though Little M. is dyslexic his brain…