IFH 143: How NOT to Shoot a $50,000 Short Film

Indie Film Hustle® - A Filmmaking Podcast · Feb 21, 2017 · 33m

How NOT to Shoot a $50,000 Short Film

So as filmmakers we all want to make the best films we can. Sometimes filmmakers think that a bigger budget is the answer, that bigger is better. This is what I thought when I went down the road and create my short film Red Princess Blues. After going down this road once before with my first short film BROKEN, I thought bigger had to be better. If $8000 was good (budget of BROKEN) then with $50,000 I could blow everyone away.

BROKEN opened a ton of doors for me as a filmmaker. I was contacted by studios, executives, producers, agent, you name it. BROKEN…