The Sovereign Creator
Maris Lidaka, Courtney Romano, Lauren Greenwood, Jane Gilmore, Broke Sober and NonDēThe Sovereign Creator is a weekly field guide for independent filmmakers, multicultural storytellers, and purpose-driven artists ready to break free from the permission-seeking industry trap.
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Concrete River - Building With Actors
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Our production date is less than a month away. While I’ve been working on looking at locations and completing shot li...
Why Making It as a Filmmaker Is So Hard
Every filmmaker believes they are one moment away from our artistic fantasies coming true. The right festival acceptance, the right grant or the right message. That one person who puts their arm around and says:
“I’m a rich producer and I...
Concrete River - Locations, Locations, Locations
When you declare you’re making a low-budget feature film. You will get a lot of boilerplate advice. Two that we have heard frequently is this:
Make it for 50K or less.
Shoot in as few locations as possible, ideally one.
The advice is sou...
Creative Practitioners - The Summer Summit
“The myth of the lone genius is exactly that - a myth. Every breakthrough I’ve ever had came through conversations. Creative people need other creative people not because they have the answers, but because they ask better questions. Commu...
Why Having Your Dreams Come True Can Be Scary
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The filmmakers who survive don't have one swing. They have eras. I write about building yours.
Writing, directing, & producing NonDē films. Organizing the NonDē 50 Films Project, contributing to FilmStack Daily Digest, and making my feature directorial debut in 2026.
Award-winning screenwriter of low-budget and TV movies here to share how I got here and how I keep going. Newly minted director of SWATHE.
Amplifying women's voices, connecting female filmmakers, host of the FiFT podcast where I'm in conversation with women making it in film & TV. Oh, and creating through cancer. Always, always creating and trying to inspire others to do the same.
Filmmaker, Aaron Strand. Currently roadshowing my debut feature film 'Withdrawal'.
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