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Live Streaming is a great way to reach a Larger Audience

Whether you're refreshing your brand or reaching out for new clients, live streaming is a great way to inform, share your expertise, and interact with your market. I'm sitting in a downtown Austin wine bar with an array of monitors and blinking lights before me. We've just completed the second of ten one-hour live streams for a large data analytics firm. Each show features a panel of marketers sharing their experiences in today's fast-changing, global landscape. There's room for twenty audience members in the venue. But, the real story is the several thousand watching online from around the world. Straight…
Michael Morlan
May 8, 2017
Production

Section 181: Will we have Film Incentives for 2016?

Timing is everything for filmmakers interested in financing, so I thought I'd do a little house cleaning with a couple of blogs about film finance and production. This one is about film incentives and Section 181 of the US code, which is the legislation periodically passed by the US Congress that lets film investors deduct all the costs of a film investment in the same year. It provides HUGE incentives for accredited investors and helps you raise the money you need. This post is intended to give you a comprehensive overview. Each year we live with some uncertainty about whether…
Carla Siegle
September 26, 2016
Production

Trafficking in Albuquerque

We just got home from Albuquerque (first tourist task: learn how to spell Albuquerque) where we helped Courtney Jones film his story about human trafficking, "Crossed Lines". Our great friend, a seeming Neversleeps, Nick Ward, brought us in at the last minute and we sat in his living room every evening after shooting and learned what a dust devil and a line producer have in common. Nick is a great guy and if he knows you, and you know what you’re doing, he will HUNT you down and give you work. We are excited about the film because, first of…
Carla Siegle
August 17, 2016
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The Filmmaker Who Became a Verb

At the end of the documentary, "Hearts of Darkness", about the making of "Apocalypse Now", Francis Coppola said he hoped that the advent of affordable 8 mm film cameras meant that film making would be taken up by the masses and become an art rather than big business. He specifically said “a little fat girl in Ohio” might become a great filmmaker. Sigh. But that’s okay. I love what he meant. ...even though we lack budgets and experience, we indie filmmakers may still know when to Edgar Wright it, David Lynch it, or Catherine Breillat it. I may not exactly…
Carla Siegle
August 17, 2016
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