Hi Stage 32 Creatives,
My name is Al Carretta. I make indie feature films on peanuts and run the Nightpiece Film Festival in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which enters its 11th Year in 2024. I've written a few blogs about the filmmaking process across Stage 32 and since 2010 I've written, produced and directed 22 feature films and about 30+ shorts! My just finished feature 'Twenty Two Presence' has got good traction from the Amazon release but I live and breathe indie film so that means you always have to be producing. This Autumn/Winter I'm particularly interested in produceable scripts that have the 'flip factor' - that is projects that can be shot in a week or so, edited in a month and completed for distribution by month three....At the £0 money, bottom end of indie film in the UK, this is how you get stuff done!
keep filming!
Al Carretta
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I have a couple of scripts that fall under your criteria! One has been deemed by execs as "too dark" and would be perfect in the indie world so to speak. Hope we can connect! And CONGRATS ON YOUR PROJECT!
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Congratulation on finishing "Twenty Two Presence" and getting good traction from the Amazon release, Al Carretta! I write low-budget scripts, but I'm writing more and more micro-budget scripts because it's easier to get a producer or production company to buy a micro-budget script.
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Hi Al Carretta! What an exciting endeavor shooting those indie projects so rapidly! Be sure to check out Stage 32 Education, there are some fantastic resources in there on microbudgeting :D
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That's amazing do to movies that fast! Congrats! Also your festival sounds cool, 11th year is great. I've never heard the Flip Factor but now I'm going to have to look around and see what I've got. haha. Good to meet you.
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Thank you all for your feedback. As I've learnt over the years I approach filmmaking in a very different way!
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Amazing.
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Hi, Al Carretta; it's great to meet you here and to learn about a new/old festival.