How to Build a Fire
Jamie EffrosA newsletter about making a truly independent film, creative communities, and the life-changing potential of collaborative spaces.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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I am by no means a veteran filmmaker. I’m still at the start of all this. I’ve written and directed handful of shorts, have one feature under my belt as a writer/actor, and How to Build a fire is the first feature I’ve written and directed,...
Collaboration = Alchemy
some of the cast/crew of How to Build a Fire
I could never be a full-time writer. I need people. Don’t get me wrong, I can spend plenty of time romping through the forests in my head, and I feel blessed to have the solo creative time I do,...
The Film
My aim with this newsletter is to explore much more than purely the sausage-making of an indie film. But because the major themes and machinations of our film, How to Build a Fire, are gonna inform a lot of my writing here, it feels importa...
The Experiment
Welcome to How to Build a Fire.
This is an experiment. What isn’t these days? (Bear with me here- there’s light coming, but…) It seems like we’re watching a parade of shattered norms and upended industries and that the scramble is on. Some...
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