Product placement is often associated with big-budget Hollywood films, where brands pay millions for a few seconds of screen time. #Filmmaking #Filmmaker #Cinematography #IndieFilm #ShortFilm #Director #FilmmakersLife #SetLife #IndieFilmmaker #FilmmakingLife #FilmProduction #FilmFestival #IndieFilms
Want to increase your film’s value? Add closed captions & dubs—Netflix prioritizes films that work in multiple languages.
Hollywood hasn't rejected you. It just doesn't know you exist.
Filmmakers: If your entire strategy is ‘get into festivals and hope for distribution,’ you don’t have a strategy.
#BehindTheScenes shots from 6 different #indie #filming productions that I've worked on in the past. I usually managed productions & wore multiple crew hats during my past work in film.
Your indie film doesn’t need to be ‘seen by the right people.’ It needs to be seen by a lot of people.
Studios don’t have a ‘bias against indie films.’ They have a bias against movies that can’t make them money.
#FilmFinance #FilmmakingTruths #IndieFilmBusiness #MovieMoney #Filmmaking #Filmmaker #Cinematography #IndieFilm #ShortFilm #Director #FilmmakersLife #SetLife #IndieFilmmaker #FilmmakingLife #FilmProduction #FilmFestival #IndieFilmmaking #DirectorOfPhotography #FilmmakerCommunity #SupportIndieFilm #NoBudgetFilm
Your indie film doesn’t need an investor. It needs an audience. Find 1,000 people who love what you do, and you’ll never need investors again.
Imagine, if the American-Canadian border was closed what would happen to the US film industry
2010. When I played a scarface #Asian mafia boss lady on a horror film short production. Filmed at the old Hung Fat #kungfu club in Chinatown. Gentrification got their longtime, oldest kungfu association in BC, evicted a few years ago.
Gloria Tsoi, pictured with me, owns & runs the kung-fu club - passed down from ancestors. We've been friends since the 90s.
Their website:
https://www.hungfut.ca/
No one in Hollywood cares about your ‘brilliant idea.’ They care if you can execute it.
#Throwback to being cast as a high school student for a medical science film from an older PhD student at UVIC, 2 weeks after my 40th birthday in 2015. All the actual minor kids cast as students were bigger than me 
2016. After wrapping the last shoot on Ollie & Emma #TelusOptik #webseries #FilmProduction at the Village Foods grocery store in #Sooke.
Me & the lighting crew were the last ones to clock out. I was always the last crew to leave sets because I was also the locations manager. We goofed around with wigs & accessories props from my costumes tickle trunk. I provided several props for the production filming from my own personal collections.
I was on contract with Less Bland Productions in #VictoriaBC at the time.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5966078/
https://orcacovemedia.com/project/ollie-emma/
Netflix doesn’t care about your festival awards. They care about data. If you can’t prove your film will perform, they won’t buy it.
#FlashbackFriday #FreakyFriday
2010.
#Filming a #zombies comedy skit in Chinatown at my friend's old kung-fu club. With the former Skits for Brains crew.
BTS shot from the past #OllieAndEmma #TelusOptik #RomCom #Webseries #FilmProduction that I managed & wore a few different crew hats on. This photo was taken from #Songhees Wellness Center, where some scenes were shot.
The fastest way to learn filmmaking? Make a bad movie. Then make a better one.
No one will read your script unless you’ve proven you can make a movie. Stop waiting—just shoot something.
Did you know? Most streaming platforms don’t pay a flat fee for indie films. Instead, they pay per watch, per ad view, or as a revenue split. Would you rather take a lump sum or a long-term revenue deal?
No one owes you money to make your film. Investors fund opportunities, not dreams. Make your film investable, or fund it yourself.
Anoxinon e.V. 
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