$82,137 down, about $35,000 to go….

Koo, an insanely talented filmmaker who runs the filmmaking blog nofilmschool.com, has been fundraising for his new feature film “Man-Child” using the crowd fundraising site “kickstarter.com”. This is a two pronged blog. First off, you should know that Kickstarter is an awesome site that allows you to post a project and receive funds to raise your budget (again, something they ...

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USC Grad Fired for Incompetence

In Los Angeles you can literally throw a brick and hit someone working in the film business. As such, my roommate brought over a friend the other night to watch “Rounders”. Turns out she is a producer of several reality TV shows and doc about a certain well known comic book creator. We got into a heated conversation about film ...

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Rounders is a Great F%$^ing Movie to Learn From

If you haven’t seen the movie “Rounders”, go rent it. Now. It’s such a great example of every aspect of filmmaking executed with near perfection. The movie is a card shark drama with Matt Damon, Ed Norton, John Malkovitch, John Turturro, Gretchen Mol, and Martin Landau. Matt Damon plays Mikey, a law student who is a Rounder, a card shark ...

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Lloyd from ‘Entourage’ as a Reality Check

The TV show “Entourage” is really the world’s best, first, and most accurate iteration of real life in the film business at a very high level. In “Film School Secrets”, we encourage aspiring filmmakers to skip film school and get on real film sets right away, plus begin making your own marketable material to show to potential agents, investors, and producers. ...

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NY Times Articles Exposes Truth About Film School

The NY Times recently published an article titled “For Film Graduates, an Altered Picture”. The article represents the first mainstream exposure of the truth you’ve been reading about on this website. Or, it could also be called “Film School Secrets Very Very Light.” The article features some of the most truthful and shocking information about the film school industry in ...

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Film: Voted #2 Most Worthless College Major

This isn’t an official survey, but Google served up an interesting result when I typed in “worthless”. It pointed me to a fun site called “HolyTaco.com”, and the article was called “The Top 10 Most Worthless College Majors”. Naturally English Lit, Latin, and Communications made the list. But the #2 contender, duking it out for the top spot along with ...

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Inspiration for Filmmakers: Spielberg Almost Quit “Jaws”

Steven Spielberg is a household name today, but 30 plus years ago he was a complete newbie on a film set. After “The Sugarland Express” his next movie project was a horror action movie called “Jaws”. Spielberg was only 26 years old and the movie shoot was a bona fide five star disaster. They started with half a script, mechanical ...

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