How will your amateur film stand out in a crowded market? Boost your community
How do you get your amateur or short film out to an audience and be seen? That's the question we posed to a buyer at the Clermont Ferrand short film festival
Building a community is crucial to...
How can I protect my screenplay?
The best way to protect your work is to leave it at the bottom of the drawer. But if you are going to submit it for the appreciation of others, you need to take...
The Clermont Ferrand Film Festival is a treasure trove for budding amateurs
If you want to be involved in making films, what can the Clermont Film Festival offer you?
The Clermont Ferrand Film Festival is the biggest short film festival in the world and the second largest...
The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro shares the keys to his success
Del Toro opens up on what worked in "The shape of water" and how the film is more than a sum of its parts.
In addition to being a director on the rise, Guillermo del...
Independent films are an essential art form – Eduardo Carneros
As long as there is storytelling there will be Independent film, says Eduardo Carneros.
The producer and production manager, known for Timecrimes (2007), Las Acacias (2011) and 7:35 in the Morning (2003) was responding to comments by British documentary maker Nick...
What does a producer do?
There has always been a grey area when it comes to the role of a producer. Read on if you want to know more.
The role of the producer always causes a bit of confusion....
Quentin and Stephen’s screenwriting tips
Five nuggets on writing for the big screen from five famous screenwriters.
Quentin Tarantino: I steal
Some people call it homage, some call it standing on the shoulders of giants. Quentin Tarantino calls it stealing. “I...
The ten commandments of writing a screenplay
These 10 commandments can guide you and help to write the best screenplay possible
If your readers have lost the plot, then you have lost the plot
Accept the fact that writing...
Boostyourfilm proposes its vision of independent cinema
Independent cinema is everything that is not Hollywood, right? Not really. Daniel Anton, founding president of Boostyourfilm offers another vision of independent cinema.
"The definition is clear. A film is considered 'independent' when it is...
