June, Adrift: Female Indie Kickstarter Ribs Zach Braff (Indie Press Release)

Posted by on May 20, 2013 in Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News, Press Releases | 21 comments

Following in Zach Braff’s footsteps, the June, Adrift Kickstarter video begins with Moore making a humorous appeal to “her” Scrubs fans (she was a featured extra in a season 9 episode) and directing them to check out her own project. The women go on to offer Braff a special incentive in exchange for supporting some like-minded independent filmmakers. With a successful Kickstarter campaign, the Crafty Shoddmanship team will be able to pay cast and crew and send them to location in Maryland.

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Best of Show Feature Winner Shares Itself Free of Charge (News)

Posted by on Apr 19, 2013 in Awards, Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News, Special Screening | 0 comments

Long time readers of MicroFilmmaker doubtless remember Best of Show Winner "Behind the Scenes of 'Total Hell'", which received an 8.8 score from Kari Ann Morgan in her critique. To celebrate the release of the Collector's Edition and give love to fans of Indie films everywhere, the filmmakers are streaming the Behind the Scenes of 'Total Hell' Mockumentary free of charge starting on Sunday, April 21st! To find out more....

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Chris Folino’s ‘Sparks’ to Premiere in Silicon Valley… (News)

Posted by on Feb 28, 2013 in Event Coverage, Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News, Special Screening | 93 comments

Long time readers of MFM doubtless remember Chris Folino and his hysterical comedy, Gamers, which won a 9.0 in our Special Critique Category (for those who are technically over the $50,000 budget cap, but whose ingenuity pushes the creativity of Independent films). Well, Folino's new film, Sparks, is about to premiere in Silicon Valley and he let me know about it so that I could pass on the info...

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The Magic of the MicroBudget: Sheri Candler talks with Edward Burns (Video Interview)

Posted by on Feb 20, 2013 in Event Coverage, Festivals, Industry, Interviews, MicroFilmmaking, Retrospectives | 0 comments

Writer/Director Edward Burns sat down with us at the Sundance Film Festival 2013 to discuss why he loves the freedom that comes with microbudget filmmaking, the compromises that are involved when working with less money, why digital distribution interests him more than conventional theatrical, using social media (primarily Twitter) to reach his audience and why he enjoys it.

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$70K Micro-Budget Film becomes First 3D Indie film to Premiere In Dallas (News/Industry)

Posted by on Dec 14, 2012 in Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News | 1 comment

Zero One, a science fiction thriller written and produced by Kareem Gray, will be the basis for a TV series now in development, The Zero One Mandate. The film, which revolves around a man who discovers a computer program that has the power to save or destroy humanity, has been screened at film festivals around the world. It won the Best Screenplay and Best Original Music awards at the Boston Sci-Fi Festival, and was named Best Film at this year's Dallas Black Film Festival. Ticket Stubs Entertainment called it 'hugely enjoyable for all ages.' Now the original 2-D version has been converted into a 3-D movie experience by P3DHD, a Dallas company that is pioneering quick, high quality, cost effective conversions of conventional film and video into 3-D.

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Micro-Budget film, Friggin’ Aliens, Unveils Community Film Initiative in IndieGogo Campaign (News)

Posted by on Nov 16, 2012 in Articles, Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News | 0 comments

Friggin’ Aliens is the first feature film for Darringer Productions and they are trying something new and experimental with the ownership of their film. Darringer Productions has created something they are calling the Community Film Initiative. CFI is a program in which the cast and crew (including the producers and director) receive non-expiring percentage of ownership in the film itself. (While it's not uncommon to allow content creators to receive a percentage of profits to equal sweat equity, this usually has a monetary cutoff level or an expiration date.) This allows them to make the movie on a micro-budget, but also does something that is important to David Whitaker, Eric Henninger, and Lori Henninger (who make up Darringer Productions), and that is that it builds community. Eric Henninger says, “This is about more than just making a movie. It’s about building a community of creative and talented individuals and giving them a platform...

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