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Does your film need a business plan?

Last Saturday there was this crazy “Festival Of Ice” here in Toronto. It was sick (in the good way)! Tell me what you think of these: Amazing huh!? Outstanding talent. Each sculpture garnered a small gathering but there was ONE that was by far the crowd favorite.

The 5 types of film investors

People ask me what I do for a living, and I’ll say “I’m a filmmaker.” Then they say “Oh! My nephew does that.” NO. I ACTUALLY MAKE A LIVING WITH FILMS. YOUR NEPHEW IS UNEMPLOYED. I know you’re thinking, “Curt, you handsome and wise devil…

Making a living as a screenwriter / director

Recently I hosted a show called The Circuit, which was about the future of indie filmmaking. Left to right: Michele Alosinac (City of Toronto), Carolle Brabant (Telefilm), Piers Handling (Toronto International Film Festival), Bern Euler (Canadian Film Fest). Someone in the audience asked a question about why

Fundraising for indie films (a new tactic)

I know what you’re thinking. “Curt, how do you keep unstintingly putting out so much content and giving SO much value? And how do you stay so handsome? And what’s your number?” Well, I love you too. And I have no intention of being meretricious —

Getting into Hollywood as an indie filmmaker

I’ll get straight to it. Just finished up a podcast with Phil Cooke, an international award winning filmmaker from Hollywood who’s filmed in 60+ countries. We were planning on releasing it a few weeks from now but the content was SO actionable that we decided to

Here’s my podcast with the CEO of TIFF

I just finished interviewing the CEO of TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) and I thought you’d wanna see it… [media_video teatime_video_unique_id=”65f4b376fc373538d5f422fa1e4112aa” teatime_video_url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v‹´›a08ciDCQ1Y4″ teatime_video_size=”{‹²›video_size‹²›:‹²›size_fluid‹²›,‹²›size_fixed‹²›:{‹²›width‹²›:‹²›640‹²›,‹²›height‹²›:‹²›320‹²›}}” __fw_editor_shortcodes_id=”04b9ba282f11e087eea46f3c4ba45ea8″ _array_keys=”{‹²›teatime_video_size‹²›:‹²›teatime_video_size‹²›}” _fw_coder=”aggressive”][/media_video]The full list of timestamps are in the YouTube description but here are just a few of things we cover: 10:22 –

Getting Funded With Telefilm

I love reading Reddit. Take a look at this advice on pitching a TV show. What do you see? I vomit in my mouth slightly. Have these people ever pitched an idea successfully?! The standard advice generally DOES NOT work. What does work? Here’s a great primer on effective pitching.