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Balancing Act

Oh, dear. Maybe I should try a different coffee shop for these meetings; change my karma. 4) Jerrie found us on a theater site where we had posted a casting notice. She took the initiative to call me and ask if we needed a Set Designer. Oh, yes, do we ever! Jerrie [...]

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Producers Cut

You’ve done all your work and you’re finally ready to do some face time with your investor. Before you get too comfortable, face this. Your investor (or funder or distributor) is very busy, probably a whole lot busier than you. (If not, you’re probably meeting with the wrong person.) Worse, there’s a line of people [...]

Winding Up, Going into the Pitch…. is a post from: "Producer's Cut" by Norman C. Berns

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Hope For Film

If there was a social contract in this country, not only would America NOT be at the bottom of countries in terms of fairness and justice (check out the graph linked to the post), but we’d recognize how support for the arts, and culture in general, is part of what civilization should be.

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IndieKicker

Been away for a bit, busy busy busy, busy is good, could be busier. So I get a phone message from a client, something like this – “Hey, I’ve loaded in the footage from the shoot that I downloaded onto my computer, but there’s something wrong. When I import it, I get the footage from [...]

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Meet Our Bloggers

Norman Berns

His latest documentary series, The Writing Code, recently aired on PBS. Emmy winning production work has included three seasons with The Metropolitan Opera, plus features & documentaries, TV series & commercials.

Steven Gladstone

A NY-based director/cameraman with a Masters degree in Communication Arts, Steven has spent the past year and a half videotaping holocaust survivors for the “Survivors of the Shoah” project. Currently polishing his “Indie Chick Flick” feature screenplay “Winter Money”, he is also working on a haunted house screenplay.

Ted Hope

Co-founder of This is that & Good Machine, Ted Hope,has produced close to sixty films, including three Sundance Grand Prize winners and the first features of Alan Ball, Michel Gondry, Hal Hartley, Nicole Holofcener, and Ang Lee. He blogs at hopeforfilm.com and co-founded the Indie Film review site HammerToNail.com.