Cora Olson & Jennifer Dubin have produced four films. Their latest, THE PERFECT FAMILY, starring Kathleen Turner, was a hit at this year’s TriBeca Film Festival.
In between meetings on a rainy afternoon, Cora sat down with me at Norwood to discuss financing for independent films, and how creative producers need …
The first thing to remember when you start investigating how tax credits work is that every state has set them up differently. In some states, the credit can be sold at a discount, transferred, or as in the case of NY State, refundable. It has long been a difficult concept for …
New York has long been the heart and soul of independent filmmaking. Directors, writers and producers still manage to find interesting neighborhoods in the city’s five boroughs that have either not changed in the last fifty years and are perfect fits for a period piece, or that have had so …
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Josh Mond and Sean Durkin (Borderline Films) on their company’s unique business model.
From the 2011 Script to Screen Conference
To watch the full conversation with the Martha Marcy May Marlene team, click here
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As hype rapidly builds for new platforms and technologies for screenwriters and filmmakers to tell their stories, competition is growing stiffer for more traditional writers to “make it” – unless they, too, become curious about these new methods. In this conversation with “Onion News Network” Head Writer Carol …
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Fresh off their successful Sundance premiere and sale, the creators of Martha Marcy May Marlene, as well as the Cannes and Berlin festival favorite Afterschool, reveal their strategy for collaboration. Find out why their support of each other’s projects is so effective, and allows them the creative freedom …
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Music Supervisor Randall Poster discusses the financial realities of putting together a film’s soundtrack.
From the 2010 Independent Filmmaker Conference.
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Geoff Gilmore, Chief Creative Officer, Tribeca Enterprises, considers why the business of independent film is faltering, and what needs to happen for it to change.
From the 2010 Independent Filmmaker Conference.