Ep 05: Demystifying Film Festivals
In Episode 5 of this new podcast - Episode 5 - Producer Marc Clebanoff chats with Colin Geddes, a veteran programmer for one of [...]
The New Wave of Micro Budget Film
Check out any of the AVOD streaming platforms and you’ll notice a seemingly endless chain of super-low budget genre films filling the carousels. Many [...]
The Future of Streaming
As the strikes kick off, putting most of the film and television world on ice, the nature and business of streaming is under a [...]
Ep 04: Bootstrapping Your First Feature Film
In Episode 4 of this new podcast - Episode 4 - Producer and Global Sales Agent Marc Clebanoff chats with actor turned producer, Frank [...]
Ep 03: How to Appeal to Film Distributors and more
In Episode 3 of this new podcast - Episode 3 - Producer and Global Sales Agent Marc Clebanoff talks with Level 33 Owner and [...]
Getting the Right Money
Over the years of raising funds I have deciphered that there is a huge difference between getting money versus getting the right money to [...]
Casting Faces vs Names For Low Budget Films
I get pitched projects all the time. More often than not, when I get pitched a film package, particularly a lower or micro budget [...]
The Tricky Dynamic of Producing on Set
Every film that gets the greenlight is a small miracle. As producers and content creators, we spend 99% of our time killing ourselves to [...]
The Myth of a Movie’s Value
As a sales agent, I always delicately inquire to producers what their real cost to recoup on their film is. Much of the time [...]
Avoiding Project Fixation
As independent filmmakers, there are a lot of rabbit holes we have to be careful of going down. There are false investors, incompetent or [...]