Tag Archives: Ben Hicks

A Glimpse of the Future?

After tweeting, facebooking and e-mailing everyone on my contact list I successfully reached my $10,000 goal on kickstarter that I needed to finish up post production and to manufacture our first run of DVD’s. (which we pre-sold 250 copies of)
Once the film was completed we uploaded the film onto The Pirate Bay and a few [...]

Interview: Arin Crumley & Kieran Masterton of Openindie

I recently spoke with Openindie creators Kieran Masterton and Arin Crumley (an innovative filmmaker the Wall Street Journal has listed as one of the top 20 media moguls) and together they are trying to build a website that may change the way we view, support and sustain ourselves off of independent film.
As a filmmaker I [...]

Collaboration: Figuring out a way to secure our future

It’s an interesting time to be a filmmaker. Technically we could all make a film, build a website, make a DVD, have our film seen by tens of millions of people and sell enough DVD’s online to make our money back and earn enough to make another film. But as we all know this is [...]