The Guerilla Filmmakers Masterclass DATE: June June 15th / 16th VENUE: Regents College, Regents Park, London Price: £85 (inc VAT) with discount code CHRISJONES What’s the secret to making your movie? Believe, learn on the journey and take MASSIVE action NOW. Not tomorrow. Not one day, some day. NOW! We are living into an extraordinary [...]
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Shooting microbudget on the steets of Brighton with Mark Banks
Last year I became aware of a low budget feature shot in Brighton called ‘Pictures Of Lilly’, and so I asked the director, Mark Banks, to share his insights on his debut production… Over to Mark… Preparation Ache. I don’t think you can over prepare for a shoot – I wouldn’t know though because I [...]
Breaking Into Hollywood: The Guerilla Pocketbooks arrive!
After a few weeks longer production time than expected, the new Hollywood Pocketbooks books have finally arrived. Those of you who pre-ordered, THANK YOU, the books will go out today. If you don’t know about this book, it’s our first self published pocketbook in the Guerilla Filmmakers Handbook series – and one of many hyper-targeted [...]
Get a job in Hollywood… detailed insight into the dream factory
‘Read this book, you’ll be five steps ahead of the game before you get off the plane’ Matt O’Toole, Co-Producer ‘The Expendables 1 and 2′ Over the last few months, Gen in LA has been putting the finishing touches to our new pocketbook, Breaking Into Hollywood: A Guerilla Pocketbook. We just sent it off to [...]
The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbooks have a new shiny website
So we have a shiny new website for The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook series – www.GuerillaFilm.com And not to soon too as Gen and Zee in LA have just completed and published the second edition of their Documentary Handbook, bang up to date a crammed with new case studies and expert interviews. The official page [...]
Has The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbook helped you make YOUR film? I want to hear from you…
Do you have a copy of a Guerilla Film Makers Handbook? Has it helped you? If you do and it has, I would like to invite you to contribute to the new Guerilla Film Maker Handbooks site www.GuerillaFilm.com. We will give you a page on the website where you can share your story. Te first [...]
Top Ten Microbudget Tips: With a crew of 2 and budget of £500… what can be achieved? Jaw dropping work…
I asked DSLR magician Ken Simpson to share how he manages to pull off amazing movies with very little kit, crew but tons of guts. Here’s his detailed response… pretty amazing advice… I’ve had more than a few people ask me how I was able to achieve such a high level of production value with [...]
The secret illustrated directory of cheap big name stars for your movie
Do you want to know how to get big name stars in your movie? Producer Stephen Follows will share with you his cheeky sneaky tactic to get named actors to consider your project… And that’s just one of eight tips, tricks, tactics and strategies in this short Practical Producer video seminar. If you want to [...]
Surviving real life… one week after the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass
I thought I would share the email I just sent to the 350 delegates from The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass. The two day event was euphoric, transformative and massively motivating… but we also live in the real world… Anyhow, I hope you get something from it too… Dear Guerilla Film Maker… How are you doing? [...]
A night at the BBC… With Kim Newman and Roger Corman
Last Monday I was invited by the BBC to appear on their late night arts show on Radio 3, Night Waves. I was to chat with film critic Kim Newman about king of low budgets Roger Corman (in light of a new documentary that has just been released). You can listen to the show below [...]
‘Rocket fuel for the soul’… Feedback from The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass 2012
It’s hard to put into words what I get out of the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass. For me, the experience is exhilarating, challenging, moving, humbling but ultimately focussing… You see I may be the guy on the stage, but I am really just the focus for the passion, enthusiasm and creativity unleashed by 350 film [...]
LIVE! Tweets and pictures from The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass 2012 #Gfilm
Get live updates from the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass 2012… Official hashtag is #GFilm // // ]]>//
Final Call – The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass Nearly Sold Out
Last year when I held the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass I thought I would never be able to repeat that extraordinary experience – if you were there, you know what I am talking about. The atmosphere was electric, partly because we had a packed house of 370 film makers. I was sure that if I [...]
How to raise $100,000 crowd funding…
Friday Feb 17th, and as part of the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass, I will be running an evening pre-registration seminar with David Reynolds of Realm Media. Many of you will know Dave as he is the face and driving force behind a series of uber successful no-budget productions such as Zomblies, as well as his [...]
Meet The Film Makers… How To Produce A Micro Budget Horror that MAKES MONEY and sells WORLDWIDE
Find out how Brit Film makers with no track record made a killer psycho horror and released it worldwide. Case study: Panic Button When Friday 17th Feb (at the pre registration for The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass) Where: London School of Film, Media & Performance, Regent’s College Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4NS Tickets: [...]
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Does the National Minimum Wage (NMW) mean the end of micro budget film making the UK?
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BECTU debate and the National Minimum Wage…
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Avid or Final Cut Pro X? Tips for setting up your first feature film cutting room.
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It’s time for film makers to take action over distribution… it’s OUR problem, not theirs!
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The phone rang, and from that moment, everything changed… PART 1
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The Film Investors Check List – Answers to tough questions your investors will ask
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Get Your Script Read AND Performed at the Actors Table Read.
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London Doc Summit 2013 Success…. and one delegates first film…
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Amanda Palmer and her TED talk on Crowdfunding, ‘The Art of Asking’
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Final Call for the London Documentary Summit this weekend
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