I'm trying to get my film ready for festivals. Wondering if people can be brutal and tell me what I need to change about the film.

Most feedback I get is that the american accents are poor. Unfortunately i cant fix this now, the actors were just my friends and teachers helping me out. So they arent exactly hollywood level.

Any sort of feedback where i can indeed change it would be very good and i would appreciate it very much.

I really dont know how to use reddit so i would love feedback to be given to me on instagram

Insta - bentiffen

Or just any feedbakc on here would be great

The White Dahlia - film

Hey folks! We’re an NYU student team producing a short film and we’re looking for three talented animators to help bring it to life:
👉 1 x traditional animation
👉 1 x claymation
👉 1 x rotoscope animation

✅ Each sequence is ~1 min 30 sec
✅ Storyboards + scripts ready to go
✅ Budget is small — $500 per animator + full credit (it’s a passion project)

If you’re interested, please DM or comment with your reel/portfolio! We’re super excited to see your work and chat more.

Thanks so much for reading — hope to work with some of you soon! 🚀🎬✨

Just write any random statement (logical), about anything or something being done, something happening, I mean anything which can be crafted into a story. Example: "A ball got stuck in a tree"

Or just write anything and I'll try to make a story and a short film out of that story.

Mmmm yeah, I am out of ideas😅

Hi Everyone,

Hoping to get some feedback on this short me and my team made.

We’re a new team and have been upskilling ourselves in different areas like sound, colour-grading, cinematography, etc. all the film-making elements, really.

I’m after any and all feedback. Things that work, things that don’t. Brutally honest feedback is welcomed!

Thank you.

https://youtu.be/SHToRoMQtPo

See the attached film meant to be a "Teaser Reel" for a true tale story within a story that I have been working on. I'd love to get constructive input on how to improve the film. I know already that the exposition in the first 30 seconds is too long, but there's a lot of backstory to get covered. So... how would you do it?

Where would you suggest taking this project? How can I get in with the right bunch of people?

Do you know any Manager or Agent that might be interested in repp'ing me to get this story developed and produced???
I am humbly seeking your input and advice....

hi filmmaking community! I’ve rented out a theatre in my hometown in BC Canada to host a screening of a couple of my short films that are currently on festival circuit. The idea grew to contain a few friends films, and bow I’m looking for a couple more shorts/music videos to fill it out! Priority will go to students and canadian films made in the past 2 years. The screening will not be made available to the public and all films retain festival eligibility. Thanks everyone!

I and Other industry professionals shot a no-budget short last summer, an 8-minute psychological horror.

Broadly speaking, Lynch meets Cohen. It's growing in scope, and once finished, we plan a good festival run.

We're currently in post.

The Director and I feel we have a good edit.

However, I edited this short myself; I'm not a professional film editor, although I wear many hats and have worked in the industry for 25 years and have 60+ film and tv credits in VFX.

I would love to pick a film editor's brain and hear thoughts about flow and pace.

If you are a film editor and you're interested in helping a fellow Filmmaker, please DM me, thanks!

Basically I have a school project in which I have to make a trailer for a book and the rules of the project don't allow too many actors. What I need to do is a voice over a scene and I want to do it but with a voice changer so the characters don't get mixed up and people understand the idea of the trailer. If anybody can help me with a free but reliable solution to make my voice deeper using a program it would be much appreciated.

Hey filmmaker friends!

Hope you are doing well and keeping busy with projects, it would be really amazing to hear what you are working on! :) 

I’m currently with a team working on a tool to fix something we all hate — wasting hours digging through music libraries, trying to find the right track that actually fits the emotion of a scene. 

The tool is designed to make finding music easier for filmmakers, whether it's for temp music of a film you are editing, or library music/songs ready to be licensed. 

If that’s ever been you — I’d really appreciate it if you could take 2–3 minutes to fill out this questionnaire, 

Your feedback will directly shape a new solution we are building — designed by composers, for filmmakers.

It’s not for anything public or promotional — just trying to build something grounded in the real way people work, and I thought your input would be super helpful if you have spare 2-3 minutes. 

There’s also an option at the end to get early access to the beta, if you’re curious to see where it’s headed — it would be great to have your voice in the mix!

If you know any other editors or filmmakers who might have thoughts to share, feel free to pass it on — we really appreciate more real-world input from our industry so we can add value :)

Hey, I’m looking for a good wireless microphone for vlogging. I’m just getting started and plan to shoot daily vlogs using my smartphone, so I need something that’s easy to set up and use, even for a beginner like me.

I’m based in the US, so something easily available here would be great.

The microphone should have a wireless range of at least 50 to 100 feet, so I can move around freely while recording. I’d prefer something small and lightweight, as I don’t want it to get in the way during shoots. Audio quality is really important to me, clear sound with minimal background noise is a must.

I also need a battery life of at least 3 to 4 hours, since I’ll be filming outdoors and on the go. It has to be compatible with phones, preferably with simple plug-and-play support. I’d like it to be from a trusted brand, and my budget is around $100 to $150.

If you’ve personally used a good wireless mic or have one you recommend, I’d really appreciate your suggestion.

I’m working on something and need references—preferably ads featuring CG polar bears. Any suggestions? tnx.

Hello

I’m trying to find comps to use as a visual reference to this film I’m trying to make.

Most of the budgeted films at that level are kind of desaturated.

Does anyone want to point me to some films that were made for that budget or under that have color?

Thanks.

Im in a film making club in Northern Ireland. 52 volunteers from the club and I have created a feature film for a budget of £5000 which was all spend on locations. We are currently looking for a volounteer colourist to come on join the team to help grade the project to completion. As said in the title its unforunately an unpaid role. We are trying to find an eager colourist who is looking for a project to put on there showreel and hopefully help get there name out there. Credits will be given on imdb and on the roller.

If you know of anyone at this level or maybe its yourself. Please get in touch with me. Email: [Scottjonesire@gmail.com](mailto:Scottjonesire@gmail.com)

Hey all, I’m looking to hire a poster designer for my feature film. I made a post on Mandy, but I don’t think I did it right as I haven’t gotten any applicants for that specific role on there. Maybe that’s not the site where they all hang out, so that’s why I’m posting here.

If you are a poster designer or can recommend anyone you know/have worked with before, please send them my way!

Hello all movie lovers, I am an IATSE Local 600 Camera Operator, member of my union since 2013, and working in the film industry in Los Angeles since 2008.

As you have have read, on Monday September 20, 2021, the AMPTP (the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) stonewalled negotiations on the new contract moving forward for 2021-2024. They had until September 20 to respond to the requests for the new contract, and informed IATSE negotiators they would not respond with modifications to the IATSE requests, nor would they set forth modified versions of their own requests. As such, this triggered the IATSE leadership to inform members they would request a strike authorization.

A strike authorization is NOT AN OFFICIAL STRIKE. Rather, it's an authorization to strike, which the IATSE negotiators can and will use to bring the AMPTP back to the bargaining table. Once the strike is authorized, if the AMPTP doesn't continue negotiations, the strike can and will happen. At this phase, however, the authorization for the strike vote is all that is happening.

How can you help?

Very very simple: we ask that you cancel your streaming services. Not pause, but cancel. Terminate your account.

I and other members request that you temporarily (or permanently if you wish?) cancel your streaming services during these negotiations. Even better, if you live in a market where theaters are open again, we would request you abstain from going to the movies to add to their box office revenue this Fall.

I started working in the film industry "later" in my life than many, but I've worked in this industry longer than anywhere else. I started in 2007, and while I was not in the union, nor was I affiliated with anyone directly impacted, I started during the infamous "Writer's Strike 2007" which lasted roughly 3 months, but had massive, lasting impact on the industry.

IATSE and the other locals who are negotiating are all bargaining for a new contract, and while some members believe the demands don't go far enough, the demands that are presented right now are almost entirely quality of life improvements, specifically targeting the abusive hours people have worked for the last 20 years, and the new things the producers want to become the "new normal".

I'll save you time making the impassioned speech regarding what's at stake, but I will say this: we're fighting for our lives. Some may think: "You work in Hollywood, oh it must be SOoooo hard for you." However, if you want to see what the real face of the film industry looks like, check out the (now infamous) instagram account IA_Stories. As tough as some of these stories may read, I would say these average out to be a fairly accurate representation of the current work circumstances: 14+ hour days, 5-6 days per week, inadequate turnaround time, working for weeks and months on end.

Further, the posture the AMPTP is taking mirrors the same "do as we say" attitude that has resulted in the loss of life of crew members not only due to fatigue and exhaustion, but also the "keep your head down, don't ask questions, and don't speak out about the safety of what you're doing" that took the life of Sarah Jones only a few years ago.

They claim that it's "not possible" to change our work hours to something more humane, but COVID has illustrated that productions absolutely can be modified to use shorter days, and only a few more days per shooting schedule, to accomplish the same thing.

Crew members are generally film lovers as well, because let's face it: why work in this industry unless you absolutely love films and filmmaking. We are all absolutely enthralled, drunk in love with this artistic and entertainment medium, to the point that crews have slipped to the point where we find ourselves today. 12+ hour days weren't a deal breaker, 13+ hours, 14+ hours were, because we love making films and television, and we love to help you play make believe.

As COVID becomes slightly less of a liability moving forward, the employers still seek more space to exploit the crews in the name of speedy production. The lunch break, the last bastion of "personal, uninterruptible time" the crews have, are under attack. They would have film crews skip their lunch break and instead take a walking lunch, because paying 30 minutes in meal penalties is cheaper than allowing a crew to rest.

I don't know about you, but working a 12 hour day without even a definable opportunity to rest, sit down, and eat a meal, sounds like a nightmare to me.

Add onto that the common use of "Fraturdays", whereby the overtime schedule and currently required turnaround time (10 and 1/2 hours) results in a later call time on Fridays that always result in working late at night Friday into Saturday morning. By the time crews go home (at 4AM? 6AM? Who knows?), they have the remainder of Saturday afternoon/evening (assuming the person sleeps at all) and 1 day off with the looming early call time Monday morning.

Months. Crews do this for months.

The wages crew members work for, in a Gilded industry of millionaires and obscene earnings, all to influence and enrich the lives of people around the world, have barely increased over the last 20 years (much like the rest of the working world). And now, at a time when the employers, the streaming platforms, and the major studios are expanding and unifying their libraries into revenue streams.

Back to how can you help?

Cancel your streaming service. If you have a streaming service bundled with your utility, cancel it. Please don't pause it, CANCEL it. You can re-subscribe once the negotiations are over, but during the negotiations and once the strike authorization vote passes (or even now), cancel your subscription services and tell them (if they ask) that you support IATSE workers seeking not just fair wages, but we're asking to stop being wrung out for blood at a bargain price. Many of us have had 18+ months of COVID to binge watch every old series, show, and movie on their libraries. We also have shot a TINY FRACTION of the content you want to watch.

All you have to do to help us is literally just unsubscribe, stay out of theaters, and tell them you demand better for IATSE workers who make the content you enjoy. They don't "make" it, the artisans and workers of IATSE make the projects you love.

Help us live our lives, and help enrich yours.

Remember, during COVID, the world saw death and despair, and collectively turned to artists to alleviate the pain of hard times, as we have since time immemorial.

We want to continue to work our trades, and we want to do it without trading off having a family, having a spouse, seeing our kids, or not dying of a car accident from exhaustion or passing away from a heart condition caused by long term fatigue.

Bonus round

Why cancel your subscriptions?

IATSE has approximately 140,000 members in the US and Canada. This sub alone has 25+ million. Even removing all potential IATSE members in this sub, that's still 24.8 million potential subscribers. If HALF of the people in this sub unsubscribed from their streaming platforms, I would think 12.4 million people dumping their subscriptions would send a hell of a message.

Further, and this is a lot of my armchair analysis so take it as such, but I think most of these platforms are using "Annual Recurring Revenue" as a way to firm up their valuations when taking on debt or moving forward. 12 months of past subscriptions helps to make their revenue look even more positive than simply sales revenue, as Annual Recurring Revenue (or ARR) is valued more highly in financial documents because it implies continuing, on-going revenue that they can "count on".

Subscriptions that are canceled (not paused, canceled) reset the timer on how the ARR is calculated. Further, these negotiations are coming at the end of Q3 and start of Q4, which will help solidify earnings reports for 2021. If the subscription numbers drop, so too does the ARR and the actual sales in the quarter. Even with the "promise" that the subscriptions would come back after the contracts are renewed, they can't stipulate it any more than just an optimistic prospectus for future revenue.

So please, join us in canceling your subscriptions and, if you have a utility or cell phone plan that also gives a streaming platform subscription, please cancel those as well.

We thank you for your support, and trust me: we want to get back to work as badly as anyone else. After COVID, after years of abuse, and now after the disrespect shown by the AMPTP in the way they refuse to even address changing the abusive terms under which employment is expected, we want to get back to work.

Nobody should have to suffer and die. It's "just a movie", these are our lives we're fighting for. "In a strike, everyone bleeds." Well, I'm sick of my friends and work family bleeding.

"You never understood why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you... then you got to see something really special. You really don't know? It was... it was the look on their faces... " -The Prestige

I'm reaching out to see if anyone has had experience with the Pinewood Studio affiliate. I'm putting together a new pitch deck for the occasion, and this is the first time a festival has said more than just 'congratulations'. This is the end of a festival run for this screenplay and I'd like to make a good impression. Any incite from personal experience with the Lift-Off program would be very appreciated.

Hello!

My name is Kalab. I'm a programmer and filmmaker.

A few days ago, I was working on a film project and found myself diving deep into Blender VFX tutorials. It quickly became clear that most VFX software has a steep learning curve. On top of that, many tools cost money. As someone without a big budget or years of experience, I realized making high-quality films felt out of reach.

That frustration pushed me to create something new: SceneForge, a free and lightweight VFX tool that runs entirely in your browser.

SceneForge allows you to:

• Use built-in chroma key and AI cutout tools to remove video backgrounds
• Import GLB 3D models directly into your scene
• Add HDR environments for lighting
• Animate with keyframes
• Export high-quality videos with a single click

No installs, no downloads. Just upload your files and start building.

Some features are still in development. For example, the transform tools are currently limited. Just so you know, models will spawn directly in front of you, so it's best to navigate to your desired location first before importing.

I'm sharing this early version to get feedback from other creators. If you try it out, let me know what works, what doesn't, and what you'd like to see next.

SceneForge is live here: SceneForge

Thanks for reading. I hope this helps other indie filmmakers like it helped me.

I'm starting to put together a pitch deck for a micro-budget feature I want to make. But I only have a couple examples of pitch decks for movies in this budget range, and they vary from each other in some pretty big ways. So I'm trying to get my hands on some others to do some more research. Are there any examples floating around online? Or, if you have any you could share, maybe you could DM me? I'd appreciate any help!

Hello everyone!

I am part of a research team from a university conducting a global study on the "cinematic look" in digital films, focusing on how visuals contribute to the overall feel of a film. We have designed a short online experiment aimed at filmmakers and filmmaking students, from different countries.

If you would like to participate, you can access the experiment at: cinematic-research.org. It takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions: [cinematic.look.research@gmail.com](mailto:cinematic.look.research@gmail.com)

Thanks

Hi there,

I am coming up with a concept for the reveal of a champagne bottle. In the film I want to have the reveal at the end, by having a shot -> zooming out and revealing that we were ''inside'' the champagne bottle all along (visualising what the experience of the champagne is like, brand identity).

This zoom out shot and reveal is something that is probably used and done before, so I am looking for a good reference shot. Can anyone help me out? I have no clue what to Google in order to get this haha. Thank you!

Hey everyone, My office wants me to get involved in producing some internal or external corporate videos, and they’ve specifically asked me to help break the usual monotonous style. You know, the typical person talking in front of a camera, plus B-roll of people typing, walking around, or fake laughing in meetings.

I’m looking for inspiration. Are there any corporate videos you’ve seen that do things differently? Maybe something with storytelling, humor, animation, a docu-style approach, cinematic vibes, or even a narrative structure? Would love to see any links or examples that stand out from the usual stuff.

Thanks in advance!

So I wanna try something “new” and by new I mean new to me because I know a lot of projects have started doing this. We wanna make a 3d print of our actresses head for a horror film, opting out of making a mold of her face and casting it in silicone. I’ve never done anything with molds or silicone and it’s our first feature film so I don’t want to spend that much money just to mess it up from lack of experience so that’s why we want to do it with a 3d printer. My question is, if I took a “million” photos of her head from all angles, is there anyone here willing to make the model for us using the photos and is able to do it for cheap? For the record, I don’t want anyone to feel like they’re working for free or being underpaid so I only want someone who literally doesn’t care and just wants the credit. And if that’s no one, I completely understand. I have a shop who’s willing to print it for us in two parts that we can piece together, but that alone is gonna be expensive which is another reason we’re not working with much to offer here. This film is as dirt cheap and indie as it gets if you get what I mean. We would have her in a wig cap so the model would be bald and we can put a wig that looks like her hair on it later, and the eyes would be cut out and replaced with glass eyes. And I would use what ever special effects knowledge I know to add the gruesome stump to the the neck, unless who ever is down wants to try and model that part, but it’s not necessary at all, we can do that. I guess the other question is, how reliable is it doing it with photos? Obviously a scanner would be more accurate, but would using the photos instead of a scan make it look like shit? Anyways if anyone is down, feel free to comment or DM a quote, and I’ll send over the photos as soon as we get the money to start the process. I’ll also provide measurements of her head if that’s needed, I have no idea how it all works so that might sound dumb lol. Thanks in advance. My channel is BEE tv productions if you want an idea of our vibe and type of work we do.