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Calendar Update #47

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Getting real about AMC, film festivals, and failure

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  • Ted Hope

    A producer on over 70 films, studio exec on over 60, Ted launched Amazon’s foray into feature film production. His memoir/handbook "HopeForFilm" is available for your reading pleasure.

  • The Capital Cut

    Expect blunt language, specific references when they exist, and a low tolerance for polished stories that cannot survive basic verification.

  • Broke Sober and NonDē

    Filmmaker, Aaron Strand. Currently roadshowing my debut feature film 'Withdrawal'.

  • Penny Lane

    Making art and making a living in documentary film. I choose to LOL. I've directed 8 feature docs including WILD INSIDE, LISTENING TO KENNY G, NUTS! and HAIL SATAN? I am also a sought-after consultant and educator.

  • Amanda Sweikow

    Cinema-maker. Former Co-Executive Director of Filmmakers Alliance.

  • Anthony Kaufman

    Anthony Kaufman is a film programmer, film journalist, and film teacher.

  • Hudson Phillips

    Writer & Producer of This World Alone, Guacamole Yesterdays, and Gargantuan. Founder of Mirror Box Films.

  • Colby Day

    Working studio screenwriter (Netflix, Searchlight). Black List alum. Hollyweird covers what nobody tells you about a real screenwriting career — craft, business, and the gap between.

  • Donny Broussard

    I am an educator and filmmaker from Lafayette, Louisiana. I write about micro-budget filmmaking and the independent film industry.

  • Stephen Follows

    I'm a film industry analyst, passionate about understanding how the industry works and sharing insights to help filmmakers get their projects funded, made, and seen. I consult for Guinness World Records on film-related records.

  • Alex Rollins Berg

    NYC filmmaker and NYU film teacher.

  • Alex Bailey

    Artisanal rants. Film, TV, storytelling, writing, Non-Dē, learning to cook, magic and the way these are all, in my head, one thing. | First feature - WHERE DOES DAISY GO WHEN SHE'S NOT WITH US? - shooting 2027.

  • The Slam

    The official Substack of the Slamdance Film Festival reporting on the future of filmmaking

  • Courtney Romano

    Writer & Director. NonDē 50 Films Project, FilmStack Daily Digest, & other secret exploits. Deeply game to explore the meaning of life whenever. Making my feature debut with what's been called a "strange, tender" script with a "fresh comic charge". \ud83d\udc7e

  • Sara's Soliloquies

    Expect lots of FilmStack and then random thoughts on tv, movies, theater, books, and life

  • Emily Best

    Founder and CEO Seed&Spark. Producer, Good&Yum.

  • Mauro Mueller / El Suizo

    Mauro Mueller is a Swiss-Mexican filmmaker, showrunner, and active NonDē participant. A Student Academy Award winner and AMPAS member, he co-founded Fidelio Films, directed three feature films and produced over ten international productions.

  • Kiva Reardon

    i’m a producer, writer, and curator working across fiction and non-fiction. i teach sundance’s monthly film club. also, a mum :)

  • Ami Vora

    Marketing @ Kinema, Co-founder @ GOLD Comedy, romcom enthusiast, always carrying Aquaphor

  • KLA Media Group

    I'm Kelli McNeil-Yellen. Working screenwriter/producer & 20+year marketing/PR pro who made the leap to filmmaking with my award-winning film DARUMA now on platforms. Founder Marketing & PR for Indie Film. DM to work w/me on your film's PR & marketing

  • Taylor Lewis

    one more time with feeling.

  • Su Tais

    I write music for screens and places, and make films. Founder @ NonDē Shorts Festival.

  • ZTennyson

    I write worlds, and film them too. Founder @ NonDē Shorts Festival. Award-winning filmmaker exploring high production value solo filmmaking. Currently writing a horror TV pilot, shooting a feature documentary and a Sci-fi drama short.

  • Sell Your House Film

    They had no money and no connections. But James had a house. "Sell Your House" is a comedy about how two friends made a successful million dollar movie called “The Last Stop in Yuma County” and the lessons we learned along the way.

  • Los Ageless Film

    A film about memory, family, and desert magic. \ud83c\udf35 Join our journey and celebrate the magic of life. ✨

  • Randy Greenberg

    You don’t need another trade recap. You need someone who’s been in the room. I’m a senior ent exec and producer w/30 years across studios, agencies, distribution/marketing. This newsletter is what I wish I’d had and what the trades don’t understand

  • Donny Slater

    Building the next era of the music business and writing about why it needs to exist

  • Danielle A. Scruggs

    Founder and curator of Black Women Directors, a digital library. Words and thoughts my own.

  • Shawna Carroll

    I’m Shawna Carroll, a Film and TV Post Producer. I help independent filmmakers avoid the post-production disasters that kill 97% of indie films—before they shoot AND after.

  • Ted Gioia

    Ted Gioia is author of The Honest Broker on Substack (https://www.honest-broker.com)—a frank and opinionated guide to music, books, media, and culture. He is author of 12 books, and previously served on the faculty at Stanford.

  • James McLoughlin

    FilmStack & fiction. Born in Southport, based in London. Writer & production crew.

  • Avi Setton

    Writer & Director of The Big Break. -Wed, Sep 16 @ 10am PST @ TCL Chinese Theatre, Indiewood FF (Block SSS). -Sat, Sep 26 @ 1pm, 4pm & 8pm PST Global Watch Party in LA, London, NYC, Portland, Bethlehem PA & more.

  • The Industry

    Keeping the Film Industry Informed! Get the 5-minute newsletter and stay up to date with the industry news.

  • Jon Fitzgerald

    Slamdance co-founder Jon Fitzgerald is the author of Filmmaking for Change: Make Films That Transform the World. And Founder of Cause Cinema & Cause Pictures.

  • Tomas Leach

    Writer and director. Filmmaker behind 'In No Great Hurry', 'The Lure' and more.

  • Victoria Michele Miller

    NYC Commercial Producer | Writer | Film Nerd | Sharing raw notes from the climb toward directing a first feature.

  • Skip Berry

    Skip Berry is a former magazine and newspaper journalist, the author of several nonfiction books for kids and adults, a screenwriter, and a poet.

  • sam bodrojan

    writer. chicago. 25. into model trains.

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