Training
This festival was created to help fledgling filmmakers pursue their dream of making and marketing great films. To that end, we provide training at all our festivals designed to help filmmakers improve their craft. Additionally, this page contains a few links to outside training that we have found very helpful. By clicking through to these links (rather than via Google) you are also helping the festival become financially viable.
Producer Training
This is a course that I found extremely valuable! Marc Clebanoff started out just like us, making very low budget (<$50k) films. His first few films got distribution, but he never saw any of that money. Sound familiar? So he spent 5 years and invested lots of money to become an international sales agent and now produces and sells mult-million dollar films. He will teach you how to:
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Make your film marketable BEFORE shooting.
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Budget, pitch decks, how to find investors.
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Prepare dozens of deliverables in order to sell.
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Find an honest international sales agent.
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Find an honest US distributor.
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Everything you need to be successful!
Course even includes all the paperwork you'll need including checklists and contracts.​
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Actor Business Training
Are you struggling to break into the industry and become a working actor? A professional acting career is comprised of two components: The Creative Component (acting); and The Business Component. Both are necessary to launch, develop and sustain a viable acting career.
You've probably spent years and thousands of dollars taking acting classes and honing your craft to the professional level. You take the first few steps... then, everything seems to stop. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW TALENTED OR WELL-TRAINED YOU ARE - without a complete understanding of the BUSINESS SIDE of your career - and a full understanding of how the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY actually works in relation to Talent - your chances of becoming a professional actor are slim to none. The biggest problem for Actors has been the LACK OF INFORMATION - and the LACK OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION on the Business Side of an acting career.
Through THE ACTOR'S JOURNEY, you will learn from Stanley Livingston, Henry Winkler, Danny Trejo and many other well known actors, each with many years experience navigating the industry, how to take your acting career to the next level.
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