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Chicken and Egg Pictures Opens Call for Grant Proposals from Women Filmmakers

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Chicken and Egg Pictures Opens Call for Grant Proposals from Women Filmmakers

Each grant recipent receives $35,000 to produce a documentary feature film. The films must be directed by women, including "self-identifying women (cis or trans), gender nonconforming individuals, and female/male co-directing partnerships."

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Stop Making Horrible Crowdfunding Pitch Videos

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Stop Making Horrible Crowdfunding Pitch Videos

When somebody gets as worked up on camera as Seed & Spark CEO Emily Best does in this clip about pitch videos, you can tell they’re making an important point. It’s also pretty entertaining – Best never shies away from plain talk while making a strong case for her point of view.

The 7 Arts of Working in Film: On-Set Protocol

The 7 Arts of Working in Film: On-Set Protocol

This article about working in film production could easily be retitled "In Case You Left Your Common Sense at  Home: How to Act Professionally." Kudos to Brandon Tonner-Connolly and Alicia van Couvering for writing it, and to Filmmaker Magazine for publishing it. 

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Film Festival Secrets Podcast Episode #22: Emily Best, founder of Seed & Spark

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Film Festival Secrets Podcast Episode #22: Emily Best, founder of Seed & Spark

Since meeting filmmaker and startup founder Emily Best in November, I’ve wanted to get her on the podcast to talk about her company Seed and Spark. This fundraising tool reimagines crowdfunding from the perspective of an indie filmmaker and takes the experience way past fundraising into audience building and distribution.

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Film Festival Secrets Podcast Episode #21: Biagio Messina on Crowdfunding & Comedy

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Film Festival Secrets Podcast Episode #21: Biagio Messina on Crowdfunding & Comedy

Biagio Messina, co-producer and director of "Dying to Do Letterman" and the Producing Unscripted podcast, joins  me (Chris Holland) and guest co-host Charles Judson (former creative director of the Atlanta Film Festival) for a conversation about Kickstarter, marketing, and the funny side of cancer.

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Interview: Head of Projection at Sundance on the Year 35mm Died

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Interview: Head of Projection at Sundance on the Year 35mm Died

Holden Payne, Technical Director of Exhibition and Projection at the Sundance Film Festival, talks about the behind-the-scenes of festival projection on the occasion of the festival's first year without a single 35mm print.

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Film Festival Secrets Podcast #20 - Inside Kickstarter with Elisabeth Holm

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Film Festival Secrets Podcast #20 - Inside Kickstarter with Elisabeth Holm

Travel to the past to join me and the Atlanta Film Festival’s former Artistic Director Charles Judson as we talk with Elisabeth Holm, the Film Program Director at Kickstarter. Holm also co-produced the film Obvious Child, which played Sundance and ATLFF in 2014.

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Film Festival Secrets Podcast #19 - Social Media Charm School with King Is A Fink

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Film Festival Secrets Podcast #19 - Social Media Charm School with King Is A Fink

When Julie Keck & Jessica King (collectively known as "King is a Fink") tell you that they are social media experts, they can do so with straight faces. Chris asks them to speak in sentences with fewer than 140 characters as they talk about the interplay of social media with audience building, crowdfunding, and celebrity encounters on Twitter.

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