Stephen Follows offers Practical advice for indie directors who want to keep making films.
Here are the topics he discusses:
- Stay flexible and keep moving
- Start small but start now
- Think like a micro-budget filmmaker
- You need to create your own opportunities
- Learn by doing everything
- Understand where indie films truly live
- Consider if film school is for you
- You never know what an opportunity looks like
- Find your thing
- Learn what people want to watch
- Build the right team
- Stay ahead of the game
- Keep going, no matter what
I particularly like this:
“The filmmakers who get noticed are the ones who don’t wait for permission. They write, shoot, and edit their own work. Even a no-budget short is better than waiting for the perfect offer that may never come.”
My take: good advice! TL;DR? Just do it.