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MONDAY MOTIVATION!: Make A Living As A Filmmaker · Indie Film Hustle® - A Filmmaking Podcast

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And in our world that just create the art, sell the art, make
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a living doing the art, doing your film. And this is one that
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filmmakers completely and totally underestimate and don't want to deal with. But guess what
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if you don't do what I'm about to tell you, the chances of you
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making a living in today's world or tomorrow's world as an independent filmmaker trying to
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sell your stuff online by yourself, you're done. So what you need to
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learn is branding, audience building, and marketing. If you don't do that.
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Without that, you will have an extremely hard time, if not virtually
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almost impossible, to make a living as a filmmaker or as an artist on
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the internet or wherever you're trying to sell your stuff. I don't want to
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hear about. Oh, you know, my business plan is to make a
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movie and win Sundance. That's not a plan, that's a pipe dream.
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Would it be wonderful to get into a Sundance or a south By Southwest or
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a Tribeca or any of these big festivals. Absolutely, I would love it,
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But it's not my only plan. Guys, I'm gonna submit it,
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I'm gonna give it my best. It might get picked. It might not,
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but I have other plans after we're like, oh, let's see how
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it works. If it doesn't work, we got this plan boom boom boom,
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and then we've got three or four other plans lined up back to back.
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We have strategies about where this movie is gonna go. You can't just
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whisk it all on one thing.