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A Year Without Rent
By | October 2011
There’s something strange about life on location…
There's something strange about life on location. When you shoot a film, you never shoot it in order. The chief reason being that it's never easy to load...
It's 1am and I'm sitting by myself on the sidewalk at the corner of 3rd Avenue & Seneca Street, 4 blocks from set. The battery on my phone died an hour...
For every film I work on, there's usually a Twitter hashtag or account dedicated to the film (What if there's no hashtag or account? That's a red flag.)...
Yesterday, there was a car parked on the street near craft services. In and of itself, this is not unusual. Craft services is on the sidewalk and we're...
I come from a basketball family. My Uncle Dale was a 3rd team Parade All-American and once beat Bill Russell at HORSE. My younger brother coaches at...
There's a day off in the FAT KID RULES THE WORLD schedule, and the last day before the day off wraps at 5am. By the time I make it back to where I'm...
In the world of micro budget indie film, the term "G&E Department" is a bit misleading. The only time you can make a distinction between G & E is when the...
I like to say that I believe in 2 things: God and the Auteur Theory, which is really just one thing. Maybe it's because Truffaut is one of my favorite...
I often describe the lighting kits on indie films as "5 lights and 4 c-stands". It may be an Arri kit or a couple of LEDs or even some work lights from...
One of the questions I get a lot on A Year Without Rent is "where do you find all these films?" Well…there's a lot of ways. Some of the filmmakers are...