How-To Articles
Consider this the NewEnglandFilm.com film school. Here, NewEnglandFilm.com offers advice, tips, and how-to’s for filmmakers, actors, writers with this selection of articles of industry advice.
Film Fundraising
- Crowdfund Your Film: A Guide to Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Seed & Spark, and GoFundMe
- Fundraising for Films through Kickstarter
- Show Me the Money: Where to Find Local Grant Funding
- Corporate Expatriates: A Source of Film Financing
- Corporate Expatriates: From Money to Movie
- How to Finance Your Independent Film
- How to Finance Your Independent Film: Part 2
- See more under film funding
Film Grants
- Grant Guidance
- Pitch-Perfect Documentary Fundraising
- Capital Idea: Profile of Creative Capital
- Understanding PBS Grants.
- Getting the Grant: The MacArthur Foundation
- State Money: Connecticut | Rhode Island | Vermont
Acting
- Advice for Actors
- Boston Casting
- In the Casting Chair
- See more under acting
Screenwriting
- How to Break Into Hollywood
- How to Find Agents and What to Write to Them
- Should Screenwriters Go to Film School?
- See more under screenwriting
Distribution
Technology
- Final Cut Pro Vs. Avid Media Composer Vs. Adobe Premiere: Editors State Their Preferences
- Make Your Film A Virtual Success
- Why Web Series are Becoming the New Wild West
- Web Series Wisdom
- See more under technology
How to Be a…
- How to Be… An Actor
- How to Be an… Animation Screenwriter
- How to Be an… Animator
- How to Be an… Art Director
- How to Be an… Assistant Director
- How to Be an… Associate Producer
- How to Be a… Camera Operator
- How to Be a… Casting Director
- How to Be a… Child Actor
- How to Be a… Cinematographer
- How to Be a… Costume Designer
- How to Be a Director
- How to Be a Director of Photography
- How to Be an… Editor
- How to Be a… Film Composer
- How to Be a… Graphic Designer
- How to Be a… Line Producer
- How to Be a… Makeup Artist
- How to Be a… Master Editor
- How to be a… Production Coordinator
- How to Be a… Production Designer
- How to Be a… Production Engineer
- How to Be a… Researcher
- How to Be a… Screenwriter
- How to Be a… Script Supervisor
- How to Be a… Set Dresser
- How to Be a… Sound Designer
- How to Be a… Sports Camera Operator
- How to Be a… Storyboard Artist
- How to Be a… Voice-Over Artist