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microbudget filmmakers, take notes.
Date night. Shot on my iPhone.
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Aspiring filmmakers need to see the process of making your film. Document the process via BTS footage, a TikTok reel, a thread on X (or threads). It could be shot listing, pre production meetings, location walk throughs, director tips, producer tips, ANY PART of the process.
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Filmmakers, I cannot stress enough how important it is to DOCUMENT YOUR PROCESS!!
Stop marketing the outcome. Start documenting the journey.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you do not need $50,000 to make a short film.
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How’d it go? 👀
Currently on set for a short film! 🤓
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This is why we created @_microbudgetpod. Filmmaking deserves a space for pure fun and joy, outside of a career ambition.
Chasing a career in filmmaking is funny bc every year I’m like “this is the year” and then it’s not
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following for the comments
We were talking about dialogue earlier, and it is such an important topic. There's nothing worse (for me) than exposition dumps, on-the-nose dialogue or just talking heads ... or when all characters sound the same. How do you test your dialogue? #scriptchat
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imagine how many potentially incredible artists gave up because an algorithm convinced them nobody cared.
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A movie I co-wrote starts shooting tomorrow. This is a first for me. I’m 43. Don’t ever quit.
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The freeing thing about being an independent filmmaker as a hobby is that none of your projects are tasked with a performance or sales metric. You can create on your terms. You can create as quickly or as slowly as you want to. You are free.
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how I became an internationally awarded filmmaker? Worked a full time job Saved up to rent an @airbnb & book a camera from @ShareGrid to film a two character short film on a weekend. Submitted to 5 international film festivals via @FilmFreeway Accepted to 2. Awarded at 1.
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Ignore the numbers Make cool stuff People will find you
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Writing a weekly series on how I made my independent feature. It’s advice and tips on how you can make a movie and create independently, BTS if you’re interested in film or just curious how it works. Please repost! This is community!
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There’s always going to be demand/desire for human-made art.
The stop-motion animation work behind LAIKA’s WILDWOOD (2026) is absolutely insane. 136 handcrafted sets, over 200 practical puppets and 49 animators working across 231 weeks, with some shots producing just 1–4 seconds of animation per week. @LAIKAStudios #Wildwood, #LAIKA_partner
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It really is
The process of making a film is one of the most fantastical things ever.
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As a creative, the goal is putting something out that feels like YOU.
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SCREENWRITING 101: A flashback shouldn't exist simply to tell us what happened. It should help us understand why the character behaves the way they do now.🎬
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Take the helicopter and 16 locations out of your script and write something you can film over a weekend in your own apartment.
remove the belief that it has to be hard.
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THIS
Global impact is cool, but you know what’s also super cool? Local impact!
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Did a couple of Apple Log 2 shots today on the 17 Pro - one during daytime and one at night - practicing w/ the cam daily until we start filming The 2nd Spaceship movie.
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