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…
My 3 Cents About Cannes (A Female Filmmaker Opinion)
I’ve only been to Cannes twice. Both times with short films, which were part of the Short Film Corner. Cannes has a lovely setting; the weather is almost always nice, which should make for an enjoyable experience. As a festival goer, I’m not going to tell anyone that my experience wasn’t pleasant and that the…
“I Cannot Keep Quiet Any Longer!!!”
It’s very likely that I’ve already written about smartphones, tablets, and kids spending gazillions of their childhood minutes glued to those devices. I feel very strongly about that subject and always have. I believe in the power of humongous negative influence all those “smart” devices have on kids and parents-children relationships. What kind of relationship…
“What Happened to the Community?”
Do you remember when, as children, we spent the whole day or an afternoon with the neighbours’ kids in their house: playing, eating, and doing whatever else children do? Nobody had to plan those spontaneous visit weeks in advance. You just turned up at the front door, and if your friend/s could come out and…