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Michael Legge is an independent filmmaker from Massachusetts who has been making movies for over 30 years. He came to the FilmSnobbery studio to chat about his current work “My Mouth Lies Screaming”, and gave insight into his career outside of the Hollywood system.
For more information on Michael’s work, follow these links:
Sideshow Cinema: [...]

Don Argott is the director of “The Art of the Steal”, the documentary about the over one-hundred year long controversy surrounding the priceless artwork in the Barnes Foundation.

“Kerberos”, directed by and starring veteran actor Kely McClung, is a gritty tale of corruption and redemption. Kely plays Mike Finn, an ex-con trying to go the straight and narrow when he is forced back into the life he was trying to escape when his daughter gets kidnapped. From there the story gets [...]

Speaking to a FilmSnobbery Live! audience on April 6th is the star of the cult show “Freaks and Geeks”, and more recently as one of Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds”. Samm can be seen next in his recently released film “Drones” directed by a previous FilmSnobbery guest, Amber Benson! Come listen to Samm talk [...]

“Burden” is an independent sci-fi short directed by Michael D. Lynch. While independent it does not limit itself the way some other indies do. The movie doesn’t cut corners with image quality (it was shot on 35mm), locations (it was shot in downtown Chicago with an extras cast of hundreds), or special effects [...]

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Filmmaker and Fandependent Films Founder Ben Hicks is joined by Marketing Specialist Sheri Candler to discuss the Fandependent Films Manifesto. Topics include piracy, film festivals, quarter per view, crowd funding, filmmaker posse’s, and media producing teams.
For more on Fandependent Films, please visit fandependentfilms For more on Sheri Candler,
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It’s Nic’s birthday and we celebrate by bringing on actor John Keating to talk about his experiences with “Night Before the Wedding”, and then speak with IndieGoGo co-founder Danae Ringlemann and Biracy founder David Geertz about the current state of crowdfunding and how Kevin Smith’s ‘People’s Studio’ could be a game-changer.

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Filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah of Sabi Pictures/New Breed/CineFist are in the Film Courage studio to share what they learned in Park City, their thoughts on collaboration/interdependence, and digital distribution.
For more on Zak and Kevin, please visit SabiPictures.
Get ready for their Winter CineFist event this Friday 2/12/10. [...]

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Filmmaker Jake Barsha drops by the Film Courage studio to talk about the impact that his art has had on his life, details on how he sought distribution his film EUGENE, and his reactions to being the first filmmaker to partake in the Film Courage Interactive.
For more on Jake’s [...]