I recently came across the following quote on Twitter: Every scene should be able to answer three questions: “Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don’t get it? Why now?” – David Mamet Last week on The Sci-Fi Maker Show Last week,

We’re taking you with us I thought it was time to try something new. Here it is: We’re making our science fiction film, “Planet Burlesque”, on The Sci-Fi Maker Show. What this means is we are going to podcast our production meetings, auditions,

Please watch my movie! One of the biggest challenges for independent science fiction filmmakers is getting an audience to watch their movie. One big reason is all the “meh” movies out there. Most of the indie movies I watch, sci-fi or otherwise,

Who is Jarmon? Filmmaker Ricky Bell found me on Twitter. You can find him here.  He recently completed a short science fiction project called Jarmon. I asked him about the project.  It’s always been a dream of mine to portray a superhero character – so...

What is “just-in-time” learning? Just-in-time learning is learning what you need to know right before you need to know it. For me, it works better to learn a skill right before I need to use that skill than learning a skill six months or a year before ...

The money-making formula Alex Ferrari has a wonderful podcast for indie filmmakers called “Indie Film Hustle“. We had Alex on our show not too long ago. Recently, he did a show called “5 Rules to Make Money Selling Indie Films” These five rules are awe...

What is Planet Burlesque? The secret is revealed: our movie project for 2017 is titled “Planet Burlesque”. What kind of science fiction movie is “Planet Burlesque”? Your first clue, after the title, is the movie poster The artist known as “Bubba” Willi...

My original plan: no short film I was planning to skip the “make a short film” step and go right into pre-production for my feature. Luckily, fate intervened! Listening to the On the Page podcast, I heard about Kim Adelman’s Making it Big in Shorts: Sh...

The secret of the 500 dollar movie How did Scott McMahon learn how to make movies for less than 500 dollars? After finishing film school, Scott worked at Sony Playstation in the early days making introductory videos for their games.

  Can you afford good actors? I’m keeping this short because it’s the holidays and many of us have a lot going on. Last week, on the show I talked about how you can make your science fiction movie for less than a thousand bucks. Sidenote: Today,