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She's finishing her second feature, shoots on 16mm and had a part in Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I enjoy her advice not to listen to anyone and do whatever you want.

Wrote this comparison of the new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K versus the 4K version of the camera. Anyone had a chance to take the 6K out for a spin, yet?

KitSplit is raising the bar for gear safety in the rental industry. KitSplit just announced the Owner Guarantee, providing gear owners ultimate peace of mind. The KitSplit Owner Guarantee makes KitSplit the only rental platform to cover owners in all scenarios, whether damage, loss or theft...

I put this guide together on making a call sheet based on the one I've been using for years on my low and no budget productions. You can get the free template for the call sheet at the end of the post. I tried to be as in depth as I could in practical terms on the different sections. Hope it...

On all kinds of projects it can be tough to get an edit started. The amount of raw material from production can be overwhelming. I put together this blog post on strategies and advice on how to manage that dread.

Making interesting opening titles sequences has been an interest of mine for a long time. Put together this post with various resources to help guide folks, whatever kind of opening titles they are trying to make.

This was something I didn't know much about. I had a notion of what the Line Producer was for but didn't have much of a handle on the specifics. Here's an article breaking down the basics of what a Line Producer does.

Just put together this post on the basics of color correction for anyone who may want/need to do some basic correction themselves on a project: Color Correcting for Video: A Starter Guide

Just wrote this beginners' guide to marketing your film for the KitSplit Blog: Film Marketing 101: How to Build an Audience for Your Film Includes a bunch of resource links that may be helpful as well.

Blog post from video producer Sam Baumel on that production insurance isn't just a responsible decision, but also good business that can help you turn a profit for a video production business. You can read it here

This blog post has tips on lighting for documentaries for when you are wearing a lot of hats and need to get the most out of your lighting while maximizing your time shooting.

I've been writing a blog post series on the production of my "no budget" feature in the interests of sharing my experience, good and bad, and my lessons learned through the process in case it can help anyone else who wants to dive into a similar "no budget" project. The series is through...

This list of grants is updated every few months with new grants or new deadlines for the already listed grants. This was just updated for February and has sections for different kind of films and different kinds of filmmakers who might be seeking a grant for funding: The Ultimate Film Grant List

Spent the last couple of weeks putting together this list of film fests broken down into a few categories including horror, women in film, children's film fests, documentary fests, shorts fests, and more. Check out the post here. It's an update to a post from the fall for the end of 2018, so it...

KitSplit Lighting Workshop with the DP of "Borat", "Who is America" and "Helvetica" KitSplit, the gear rental marketplace, is hosting an intimate hands-on lighting workshop with one of the industry's leading DPs, Academy-Nominated Luke Geissbhuhler. This 8 person, 1 day workshop will dive deep...

I'm serving as the Guest Director for this year's Art of Brooklyn FIlm Festival. We're currently seeking submissions for the festival, which will take place in June. The fest is open to shorts and features as long as they have a connection to Brooklyn. More about the festival here If you're...

If you're looking to get an introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro from an experienced video producer, Ashley Maas of Vimeo is offering a 2 hour workshop in Brooklyn on February 9th. You can learn more about the workshop and sign up for it here.

This list covers things that might be helpful for a few stages of production but in the end most of it is helpful in the post stage, I think. All of them are free or at least pretty inexpensive to use.

Didn't introduce myself properly before, I think. Sean Mannion, independent filmmaker in Brooklyn. Been at it about a decade now. Always looking to build on my skills. I do a fair bit of low budget/no budget production and post-production for narrative projects. I teach at BRIC (mostly video...

I put together an editing guide for beginners. I hope it's helpful for folks who are just diving into editing for the first time.