4 Filmmaking ‘Rabbit Holes’ To Avoid

Whenever a filmmaker stands in front of a screen at their film festival Q&A and says “Filmmaking is war,” I can’t help but see the ghosts of a thousand soldiers and napalmed civilians surrounding him, shaking their spectral heads in scorn. Sure, filmmaking isn’t easy. But “war?” Far from it. It’s a struggle, sure, but…

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Don’t Pay Rate Card!

If you want to broadcast across Hollywood that you are an amateur, pay the rental company’s published rate card amounts for your production equipment. No professional pays rate card! I don’t even know why they bother to print rate cards, except to give you an idea of the top of the price range, how high not to…

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