Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question: “What makes a good story?” They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard: “If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats… you got

a film could take 10 months or 10 years to make. There are no rules, and there is no rush. Quiet the noise. Make your art at the pace you can maintain. You're a filmmaker regardless of the time in between your projects.

How about we all jump into indies now? Content creators create a film & TV-making system alongside the studio & streaming networks? So there is actual competition. 🧵 deadline.com/2023/07/actors…

Want to eliminate the #AMPTP entirely? For a true creator-owned economy we need legit and widely accessible funding platforms and alt distribution options. Learning/cultivating that biz side is on us. The rest we have handled. Are you ready, really, to go fully indie?

Shift your focus from your indie films as lottery tickets to your indie films as an investment portfolio. You don't need a big break. You can build your audience around a collection of your own work too good for Hollywood to ignore. Get attention by creating.

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SAG-AFTRA actors can still work on micro budget film projects who have the SAG Microbudget film waiver. The project cannot exceed $20K per film or $20K per episode. The project cannot be affiliated with the AMPTP. Indie Filmmakers- GET ON THIS.

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There’s a cycle to this film business. Films are made by fans of a story or piece of IP for other fans of that kind of film, a niche. Some of those films touch on universal themes and cross over or are so popular they become necessary for the modern social curriculum. Those

Don’t know if we can claim #1. But…