ACTING FOR A LIVING: How Daniel R. Hill Books Work
In addition to being well-trained and really good, how can you turn your flair for the dramatic into a regular income? We got such fresh perspective from Daniel R. Hill’s interview, we had to share some of his secrets to working full-time as an actor. 1. Confidence is...
FIVE ON FOURTH: 5 Movies to Celebrate on Independence Day
Happy Fourth of July! Four score and seven years ago (plus about 15 decades, during which we stopped measuring time with “scores”), the colonies of the New World claimed our independence from England. It took eight years of war to get them to agree, but...
HITTING THE RIGHT NOTES: How to Effectively Implement Feedback
As essential as it is to get feedback on your work—from co-creators, production team members, focus groups, etc.—does anyone really enjoy this part of the creative process? Receiving notes the wrong way, or from the wrong person, can frustrate your process and even...
LOVE ON THE BRAIN: Wedding Movies Through the Years
Our indie rom-com Plus One opens today in theatres and on select digital platforms! Maya Erskine (Pen15) and Jack Quaid (The Boys) star as lovelorn friends who agree to partner up in order to survive a hectic wedding season. We think the film is a riot, but don’t take...
RENAISSANCE DISNEY: We Rewatched Aladdin and It Made Us Better Filmmakers
The term “Renaissance” has been used by fans to describe the awakening and reinvention that brought public and critical interest to Disney Feature Animation in the 1990s, starting with The Little Mermaid (1989) and ending with Tarzan (1999). But it wasn’t just the...