Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Before the Dark – $15k Budget

Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Before the Dark The journey of our feature film “Before The Dark” begins with a phone call from my good friend Benny Oliveri, Benny and I met at Film School and had stayed in touch ever since. A few years after Film School we both found ourselves living in sunny Los Angeles, my…

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Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Threesomething – Budget $10K

Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Threesomething I had the impulse to make a feature-length indie film, Threesomething, after doing a bunch of shorts, but I had no idea what to do or where to start. Here’s my journey… Zoe, Charlie, and Isaac spend a night flirting with the idea of a threesome… until it finally happens and all hell…

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Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Killer Christmas – $50k Budget

Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Killer Christmas Making a film is difficult, but it doesn’t have to be expensive. We are two amateur filmmaking brothers from New Jersey who made an 80-plus minute feature film from scratch in well under a year. It’s called Killer Christmas and is the story of a group of friends who sneak into…

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Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Do Something Jake – $0 Budget

Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Do Something Jake – $0 Budget It’s not for every first time feature filmmaker: the stress, the financial worry, the self-doubt, the cojones to go ahead and announce to the world you’re gonna make a movie and it’s gonna be great! But that’s what we did. Middle-aged, no feature filmmaking track record, no…

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Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Wakaliwood – Budget $200

Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: Wakaliwood – Budget $200 Writer, editor, visual effect artist, producer, and director Isaac Nabwana plus his team have created over 40 feature films in the past 8 years, with their most popular and successful film being “Who Killed Captain Alex.” Their passion oozes out of their films in a way you couldn’t manufacture even if…

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Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: CON – $7K Budget

Filmtrepreneur Breakdown: CON – $7K Budget One thing I want to make abundantly clear from the beginning is that producing a feature film for 7,000 euros (8,500 dollars)in total (from idea all the way to screen)is not easy. You have to think outside the box. The point is this; you have to be prepared to…

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