by Evan Bass Zeisel | 7 August, 2020 | Filmmaking, Producing, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
Streaming and download piracy website traffic has dramatically surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to London-based piracy analysts Muso, analyzing the last 7 days of March 2020 compared to the last 7 days of February, visits to streaming and download piracy...
by Alina Burakova | 4 August, 2020 | Acting, Directing, Documentary, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Producing, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution, Screenwriting
One of America’s most successful novelists, Stephen King, once famously said that talent is cheaper than table salt. According to him, a lot of hard work separates successful individuals from the merely talented ones. Why is a talent not enough to send people into...
by Nidhi Gupta | 10 July, 2020 | Directing, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Producing, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution, Screenwriting, Technical Craft
The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the precarious nature of working in the Film and Television industry. Up to 96% of the workers have lost all of their income as a result of the pandemic. I was fortunate when the pandemic hit. As a qualified, part-time medical...
by Paul Baichoo | 6 July, 2020 | Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
Well actually that’s a load of pants for a start, but if you consider yourself poorly connected, then I have good news for you… It’s who ya know too. Now I realise that sounds like I’ve just contradicted myself (it happens) however, we don’t live in the eighties...
by Finnergan Pierson | 5 July, 2020 | Acting, Film History, Filmmaking, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
For as long as humans have been making art, there have been depictions of the human form. As soon as the first sculptors and painters started creating images of themselves and the people around them, they were saying “this is what we look like.” This...
by Rebekah Louisa Smith | 4 July, 2020 | Festivals, Film History, Filmmaking, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
The Film Festival Doctor (Yes, she’s a real doctor!) Dr. Rebekah Louisa Smith, discusses today the emerging ‘hybrid’ film festival model. Clearly, CV19 has changed the way that festivals are having to operate during 2020. Not everyone has warmed to the on-line film...
