Dying to Tell You About Our Movie

For the past six years we’ve been working on our passion project, a self-funded, feature-length documentary called Dying to do Letterman. Five years of shooting. One year of editing. Eighty minutes that represents our very best as filmmakers. The still frame above is from today’s shoot with Steve, in which he finally reveals what you … Read more

Dying to do Letterman Facebook Page

Just a quick post to let you know that the Facebook page for our documentary, Dying to do Letterman, is up and live. We’re spilling our guts about all kinds of good, meaty, documentary-making gossip. Plus, the movie is something we hope anyone can feel good about. The message is simple: Live your dream, or … Read more

Filmmaking On Tilt

While we’ve been in our cave editing Dying to do Letterman, one of the projects we funded a while back via Kickstarter, TILT, has been knee-deep in editing as well. Coming up for air today, we were excited to see this! Here’s the sweet looking trailer for TILT from Phil, Julie, and Jessica: Congrats, Team … Read more

Indie Ideas: Build Your Street Team

Raymond-Did-It-at-Joke-and-Biagio.jpgJust a quick post about an indie working hard to get his movie out there, and being creative in his approach.

Travis Legge, an aspiring horror film writer and director, took his career into his own hands by making Raymond Did It, an ultra-low-budget horror film.

Considering he had no money, the trailer looks really good. Plus, he was smart enough to reach out to, and cast, two of our former Scream Queens in Raymond Did It.

Travis is Building a Street Team

To help distribute his movie himself, and get the word out, Travis is selling Raymond Did It Street Team Shirts. The idea is to earn some extra money to help release the film, and at the same time use that age old “walking billboard” tactic to spread the word.

But it’s Just a Tee Shirt, Right?

We all get free tee-shirts, all the time, at trade shows, fairs, you name it. And honestly, a free tee-shirt just doesn’t mean all that much. I mean, really, do you wear your free tee-shirts anywhere you actually want to be seen?

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Whiz! Bam! Pow! Our Featured IndieGoGo Project

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If you’ve been around our blog, you know we like to support indie filmmakers whenever we can. Today’s post is an interview with cutting-edge indie, Tyler Weaver, who also runs an awesome blog called Multi-Hyphenate.

Whiz!Bam!Pow!

With what may be the most action-packed title of all time, Tyler is creating a “transmedia” experience, and he’s using IndieGoGo as a tool to raise funds and awareness for his project.

Trans-huh?

Entertainment is changing at a rapid pace, and Tyler Weaver’s bravely living on the bloodiest bleeding edge. Take a look at his pitch video for Whiz!Bam!Pow! and read his info-packed interview below.

What Tyler Weaver’s doing with Whiz!Bam!Pow! just may be your sneak peek at the future of indie-storytelling.

BTW, on Twitter? Follow Tyler @tylerweaver, and of if you’re not already, please follow us @JokeAndBiagio.

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Free Film Festival Secrets

Just a quick post to tell you about an incredible free resource we stumbled upon recently. It’s the site of Christopher Holland, Film Festival Secrets . Not only is his site jam-packed with information to give you film festival success, but Mr. Holland has written a free e-book that is the must-download free e-book of … Read more

A Hands-On Producer Rings His Bell

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Writer, Producer, Director Angelo Bell is a hands-on kind of guy

We Love Hands-On People

If you’ve been around this blog, you know that we can’t say it enough: if you want to break in to Hollywood, go make some stuff.

Even if you finish a film you never show anyone, you’ll be leaps and bounds ahead of all those “wannabes” who never “get to be.”

Guys like David Baker (who we did a series of posts on here) know that creating your own opportunities leads to career success.

Meet Angelo Bell

Angelo’s one of those guys who’s taking his career into his own hands. Rather than sit back and whine that Hollywood wasn’t banging down his door, he charged ahead and made his own opportunities.

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Welcome to Undeadwood

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Biagio is off editing our documentary Dying to do Letterman, and has entrusted me with the reigns to this week’s Scream Queens behind-the-scenes post.

Allow me to channel my inner-Biagio…

THE CAMPY SIDE OF HORROR

When we start developing a season of Scream Queens, we know there will be an episode that deals with the campy side of horror. Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves…it’s all too much fun NOT to include.

Plus, the chance to make a fake movie trailer for a campy movie in just one day is one exhilarating challenge. It gets everyone, from the cast to the crew excited. It’s the day that’s the most work, yet the most rewarding.

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Horror Superstar Debbie Rochon Schools Our Scream Queens

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Being true to the horror genre is something we’ve worked very hard to do in every episode of Scream Queens. So you can imagine our hootin’ and hollerin’ when we learned one of the ultimate Scream Queens, Debbie Rochon, agreed to appear on our show, in an episode about “The Sexy Side of Horror.”

Welcome to Episode 4 of Scream Queens

Let’s get right down to it: this week’s challenge featured an amazing guest star, and offered a big-time prize. Debbie Rochon, named Scream Queen of the Decade, showed up to judge our ladies in a challenge with real-world stakes. It would be a photo shoot recreating classic horror archetypes. The prize? A photo spread in Fangoria Magazine!

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