Over the past few months, I’ve been attending a number of U.S. conferences with big-name speakers from the industry-side of filmmaking (e.g. producers, sales agents, financial experts, distributors, etc.). Here are their top tips, distilled into a business guide for
Film Industry Networking – Tips for Newcomers
Everyone in the film industry talks about the importance of networking, but no one really explains how this works for first-time filmmakers. Here are some practical tips that I’ve picked up over the past few years that might help you
What is the Story About? – Shaping a Screenplay
I’ll start with a theatre story. In the early 1960s, Jerry Bock (composer), Joseph Stein (book writer), and Sheldon Harnick (lyricist) were working with Jerome Robbins (director) on a new musical set in Russia. It would come to be known
Fisher Jim: Chapter Twenty-One
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE I gotta confess, Granddad has a great set of lungs. Even with manky chewing gum stuffed in both ears, I could hear him bellow halfway cross the water. I tugged a sticky wad from my left ear. “James
Fisher Jim: Chapter Twenty
CHAPTER TWENTY Then I got a real good look at the thing and realized what a numb-nut I’d been. It was only the light from the Bass Lighthouse. Bass Lighthouse is the one that sticks out on a rock as
Fisher Jim: Chapter Nineteen
CHAPTER NINETEEN To tell you true, I was feeling awful low at that moment. I figured I was either gonna die of hunger or ram into Iceland, whichever came first. All my plans for Mom had been smashed with
Fisher Jim: Chapter Eighteen
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN A Newfoundland wind hit me broadsides as I slammed down the lid of my tackle box and hauled up the anchor. I knew there was gonna be sixteen different kinds of hullaballoo to pay when I got back,
Fisher Jim: Chapter Seventeen
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Stripers are hunters. If you’re sitting there on a calm day and you see the water start to get roiled, put on your polarized sunglasses. Because I’ll bet you fifty cents that you’ll see stripers herding baitfish to
Fisher Jim: Chapter Sixteen
CHAPTER SIXTEEN “Oh, when I was a little boy, or so my mother told me, Way haul away, we’ll haul away Joe, That if I did not kiss the girls, my lips would grow all moldy, Way haul away, we’ll
Fisher Jim: Chapter Fifteen
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Of all the hooks in all the bays, this bird had to bite into mine. Have you ever had a seagull on a striper line before? I wouldn’t rec-o-mmend it. It’s about as much fun as catching a