The weather has been amazing lately, and my garden looks great! We haven’t had rain so I’ve been watering the garden instead of writing. 🙃 Such is life sometimes.
Recently a filmmaker friend shared his lack of passion in creating another passion project.This is something we all struggle with. At the beginning, the idea and script stage are the dream. It’s exciting, fun, and essentially free, other than the time and research part. The production part costs real money, real risk, sweat and tears.
After you manage to complete post production, which is a mind numbing amount of hours editing and fixing things in post, you have to enter festivals $$$ or four wall the film $$$$. Independent filmmakers generally do not have major money for advertising so we rely on friends and family along with social media to spread the word.
It’s painful to hear that a super talented friend feels discouraged by the lack of support, mainly financially, for all of the work it takes. Film is our creative expression and an artistic pursuit. Yes it can be commercial, yes it can be “content “, but it can also be beautiful art and be socially relevant.
Do what is necessary to make money and continue to do what you love creatively. Hopefully you can do both! Supporting local films and filmmakers by going to our events means the world to us, sharing our work and making back some of our money also feels good.
Saturday June 17th is the next meetup at 1pm at the Oregon library. We will continue a bit of free writing time as a regular feature to focus some time on our personal projects. I will also share news from the festival road for Old West End.
Upcoming: Saturday July 8th will be the Glass City Screenwriters film event at Maumee Theater. Doors at 630, films at 7pm full details soon, you are all invited!