Everyone wants to make a film and play Sundance. Here are 13 filmmakers who did, and their best advice for you! Nothing about making a feature film is easy, let alone making it good. Here is some great advice from a group of filmmakers who did just that, from horror stories, personal dramas, cinematic epics, and exhilarating documentaries at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Take a look and see if there isn't some useful advice for your particular struggle. Don't take rejection to heart Prano Bailey-Bond (Director, Censor): ... Don't take rejection too much to heart because there's a lot of rejection along the way. And sometimes people don't always get your ideas initially. And the best thing to do is just go out there and do it anyway, show the world. That's kind of what I did with my early shorts. I didn't get funding. So I was like, "Fine. I'll just lock Annika [Summerson] in a warehouse with me for two days and make her film me doing something weird." And that turned out quite well. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 19 February, 2021