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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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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.
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Author, Movie Critic, Radio Host and Film Addict Betty Jo Tucker calls in to Film Courage to share how she has monetized her passion for film, her book Confessions of a Movie Addict, and the thrills she has gotten from hosting her own film radio show, Movie Addict Headquarters.
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Filmmaker and Author Jon Reiss is in the Film Courage studio to discuss his new book Think Outside the Box Office. Jon reveals how being a part of the Punk Rock movement influenced his thinking outside the crowd, lessons he learned from distributing his film Bomb It, and [...]

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A Film Courage Film Festival Roundtable discussion with Festival Organizers Daniel Sol (HollyShorts) in studio while Phil Holbrook (EgoFest) and Johnathan McFarlane (Festivus Film Festival) join in via skype. They reveal how much money they make with their festivals, their relationships with filmmakers, and how much politics plays [...]

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Filmmaker Phil Calderone drops by the Film Courage studio to discuss his film Manhater which has it’s upcoming World Premiere next week on January 11th and 12th at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema. Phil shares how he financed Manhater, his festival strategy, and what kept him from [...]

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Acting Coach and Actor Barry Papick is in the Film Courage studio to tell us whether or not we all have the ability to ‘act,’ what actors can do to book more acting work, mistakes that directors make in working with their actors and insights from working with Al [...]

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Filmmaker David C. Snyder Skypes into Film Courage to talk about his film “The Quiet Arrangement”. David discusses lessons he learned in making 2 bad feature films on videotape, how he crafts the beautiful shots found in his film, and how he got Public Enemy rapper Chuck D [...]

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Filmmaker Suzy Benfatto joins us in the Film Courage studio while her Music Composer Stu Kennedy skypes in from Scotland. Suzy shares her experience of directing her first film past the age of 50, her reluctance to work with a music composer outside of Los Angeles, and how [...]