film industry

Your Film Got Produced. Now Do You Actually Want to Sell It? There’s something in the film industry we strangely don’t discuss enough, even though every project ultimately depends on it. We don’t just produce films. We also sell them. We work with producers, production companies, and rights...

Why Most Indie Films Never Make Money I’ve been thinking about something that rarely gets discussed honestly in filmmaking circles. Most indie films don’t fail because they are bad. They fail because there was never a realistic plan for making money from them. We spend years talking about...

Everyone at film markets talks about creativity and vision. But behind closed doors, the real conversations are about budgets, algorithms, and distribution deals. So who really decides which films get made today? Is it the creators with original ideas, the investors who control film financing...

Most film contracts don’t become problematic because of bad intentions, but because they’re too vague. Everyone assumes things will be “clarified later”, and in practice, that’s exactly where most legal and industry conflicts begin. One of the most common issues is unclear rights allocation...

The word networking makes a lot of people uncomfortable. It sounds cold and forced. It brings up images of awkward small talk and people trying to impress each other with business cards and half-baked elevator pitches. But in the US film industry, networking is not an event. It is not a...