10 Commandments For Low Budget Independent Filmmakers

Making a movie needn't be difficult. It is hard work however, especially if your budget has been crunched to next to nothing.

Can you still make movies with hardly any cash?

Of course you can, bit it's a whole lot easier if you observe some basic simple rules, which I call, with a bit of arrogance, the 10 Commandments of Low Budget Independent Film

Watching Entry after Entry

Everyone at Raindance is watching movie after movie after movie film submission.

Sometimes I stand up to stretch.
Sometimes I stay curled up in a ball.

Thanks god the weather is so crap in London

Fascinating work this year.

Lonely Cab Driver

"How is your driving record?" the owner of one New York City taxi business ask the Vietnam war vet, Travis Bickle. Travis responds with a smirk on his face, "Real clean like my conscience." This quote reveals the theme embedded in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). The movie is a psychological study of Travis (Robert DeNiro), a man searching for his place in life. Following Travis' taxi down New York City's underbelly also reveals dozens of frustrated people searching for purpose in a country after a purposeless war.

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