Community spotlight
Learn from those in The Film Fund community.
The Film Fund’s Spring 2020 Film Funding Contest Winners
In our last contest, we said we’d be finding ways to award more filmmakers and make more movies happen. Last time, we…
Funded Filmmaker Showcase: Katie Sadler
Katie Sadler is not your typical filmmaker (whatever “typical” means, anyway). She’s also a dancer, and she channels her excitement for and…
Funded Filmmaker Showcase: Matthew Greenberg
If you can’t get to the heart of it within a couple of sentences, then it’s too complicated of a story line,…
Ask a DP: What Camera Is Best for a Low-Budget Film?
Many of our members in the FF Studios chat community have asked what gear they should be using on their low-budget independent…
Funded Filmmaker Showcase: Don Fanelli
Writer and director of the short film “Sunday Dinner” — funded by The Film Fund! — answered some of our questions about…
Funded Filmmaker Showcase: David Oster
David Oster, writer and director of the short film we funded, “I Love Jazz,” answered some of our questions about why he…
What You Can Learn From These 6 Films Financed by The Film Fund
We’ve been busy here at The Film Fund, and we’re finally ramping up to produce even more films to help independent filmmakers…
Celebrate freedom with Americano, available now on Amazon and iTunes
We’ve been busy here at The Film Fund. From travelling to Los Angeles to see “Americano” on the big screen yet again…
AMERICANO is an Official Selection at Dances With Films
Tim Viola’s short film “AMERICANO” has been chosen as an Official Selection at Dances With Films in June 2019. The film will…
FF ORIGINALS RELEASE: Treehouse, directed by Matthew Greenberg
After months of development and production, FF Studios and Greenland Entertainment are happy to release “Treehouse,” a short film written and directed…
FF-produced “AMERICANO” indie film nominated for FIVE festival awards at FirstGlance Film Festival (so far)!
UPDATE: “AMERICANO” has won Best Editing at FirstGlance Film Festival, a premier independent film festival in Philadelphia. “AMERICANO”—a short film written and…
Watch: Director Mike Thompson tells us why producers don’t care about your logline and why you should ignore them
“I had a producer asking me about international sales, and he hadn’t even heard the logline yet.” For our third Community Spotlight,…