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Get a good producer. Confidential to the film student who doesn’t feel like reading this whole post: I ask you at least take this lesson to heart- NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A LOADED GUN ON SET JUST BECAUSE THOSE KEWL GUYS IN NEW YORK DID IT. Get a good producer. Just do it. I know [...]

2/10/12 If you haven’t read anything else about it yet, Leprechauns & Lies is our latest produced project, and first official run at a live show for the superfreakos. This is a passion project for Chad- something he’s been working on for 20 years and with the encouragement of his incredible acting teacher Gary Imhoff, [...]

For a few months we have been working on a sketch comedy group that was originally going to be named “Awesome Sauce”, but after finding out that another group has already taken the name, and after many hours of deliberation we decided to rename the group “The Clean Sanchez”. I’m sure most of you are [...]

I was super excited to read this post on Film Independent’s Legal Ease blog- “If historical events/figures are open game for the public to write about, when is it necessary to secure nonfiction book rights?” This is a timely subject for me because I have been working on a historical story for which an incredibly [...]

Insuran-zzzZZzz Independent producers vary wildly on the subject of insurance. From “whaaa? I’m hoping my crew doesn’t notice there’s no jelly on the PB&Js we provide every other shoot day and you want to talk about purchasing insurance?” to “I say dear ole chap, shooting without insurance is like a stay at Chateau Eza without [...]

Makin Commercials You’re just a producer standing in front of a small business owner wanting them to hire you. They’ve got a script and a few thousand bucks. You’ve got friends who will work for free and bring their equipment along for the ride. You think, how hard can this be? I shot a 35-minute [...]

Whoa! It’s been a while. Sorry about that. As you can see from Chad’s and Denny’s posts lately, we’ve been in a blur of production and travel, shooting two projects and then leaving immediately for the Big Island Film Festival. It’s been a ton of fun but definitely exhausting. Now that everyone is back and [...]

It is day five of my project in Hawaii and this is how I ended my day. Shooting the sunset at Anaeho’omalu on the Kona coast of the Big Island. For anyone who has not been to the Big Island I have included a few of the shots that I have seen on my tour [...]