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10 Reasons To Release Your Feature As A Web Series

You can now shoot a movie on a phone. You can edit like a pro on a laptop. You can share your work with a few billion people with just a few YouTube clicks. The revolution is here. So why are we stuck on old business models? Why do we still think the best way to further our indie careers is to make a low budget feature, do the film festival circuit and be discovered and signed like it’s 1999? I’m over 50. (Yikes!) and it’s time to let go of decades-old indie filmma…

8 Film Festival Do's and Don'ts

I’ve been fortunate to have my work screened at some pretty amazing festivals. Thin Line in Texas. The London Underground Film Festival. And most recently at TRIFI in my home state of Washington. It’s not only a thrill to know people will be watching your work on the big screen. It’s also exciting to be in the audience with them. To do a Q&A afterward. To rub shoulders with other filmmakers. To visit a new city. The whole package. But sometimes your expectations d…

Hollywood! Give Us Back Our Zombies!

Today's guest blog comes from Stage 32 member Kelly Hughes, an author, director and screenwriter from Seattle, Washington. Kelly first gained notoriety back in the early 90s for his Grunge-era series Heart Attack Theatre, a weekly horror/suspense anthology he wrote, directed, and edited for Seattle public access TV. Since then, he has filmed two features as well as a documentary of this early work titled Heart Attack! (2012), which has been playing the film festival circuit, including sc…

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