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Category: film industry

December 16, 2024
  • film industry

Why Film Networking Beats Job Boards for Landing Film Work

December 16, 2024 By Amber M Sherman

Why Film Networking Beats Job Boards for Landing Film Work If you’re pursuing a career in film, chances are you’ve spent some time scrolling through job boards, applying to posts, and anxiously waiting for

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Tagged film jobs, film networking, getting film work
independent filmmaking
September 18, 2024
  • film industry

Indie Filmmaking: Creating Content with Limited Resources

September 18, 2024 By Amber M Sherman

Indie Filmmaking: Creating Content with Limited Resources   For beginners in filmmaking, creating an independent film can be both exciting and daunting. The good news is that with the right approach, you don’t need

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Tagged film, filmmaking, indie filmmaking, making a movie on zero money
January 23, 2024
  • film career
  • film industry
  • Film Networking

10 Ways to Building Film Connections and Network in Film

January 23, 2024 By Amber M Sherman

10 Ways to Building Film Connections and Network in Film As you know the connections you make in film are going to be vital to your film career, and if you didn’t know… well,

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Tagged film, film industry, film networking, networking in film
film networking
January 10, 2024
  • film career
  • film industry
  • Film Networking

The Truth About Film Networking!

January 10, 2024 By Amber M Sherman

The Truth About Film Networking! I know you have been told that networking is needed to make a career in film happen. And probably repeatedly. So much so that you walk on set, or creep

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Film Networking
December 6, 2023
  • film career
  • film industry
  • Film Networking

Cracking the Film Industry: Networking from Scratch

December 6, 2023 By Amber M Sherman

Cracking the Film Industry: Networking from Scratch You have set out to work in film, you want to make movies – CONGRATULATIONS!!! Now that you have that in your sights we have to get

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Ways to get Film jobs
July 10, 2023
  • film industry

8 Ways on How to Get Film Jobs!

July 10, 2023 By Amber M Sherman

8 Ways on How to Get Film Jobs! I will be the first to tell you that getting into film felt nearly impossible. How do you get on those big sets, famous movies, and

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April 17, 2023
  • 1stAD
  • film career
  • film industry

Leadership and the Film Industry

April 17, 2023 By Amber M Sherman

Leadership and the Film Industry: How Each Style Can Help or Hurt You on Set The film industry has an overall guise to everyone on the outside for the glamour, celebrities, and the art

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film set
April 10, 2023
  • film industry
  • Production Assistant

Top 10 Overlooked Traits that Set PAs Need

April 10, 2023 By Amber M Sherman

Set PA Traits You Need to Succeed…at Least Faster! Breaking into the film industry is tough, it’s largely mysterious, and if you know – you know, but a lot of Set PAs – don’t.

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Set Production assistant
April 3, 2023
  • film industry
  • Production Assistant

What is a Set Production Assistant?

April 3, 2023 By Amber M Sherman

What is a Set Production Assistant?  I know you hear or read about this a lot – that in order to start your film career you MUST be a Set Production Assistant, but what

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writers strike
March 27, 2023
  • film industry

Writers’ Strike Looming in 2023?

March 27, 2023 By Amber M Sherman

Will There be a Writer’s Strike in 2023? March 20th of this year the WGA Writers Guild of America commenced negotiations with AMPTP (the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television producers.) Now, if you’re

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August 16, 2022
  • film industry

Painful First Time Director Mistakes to Avoid!

August 16, 2022 By Amber M Sherman1 Comment

Painful First Time Director Mistakes to Avoid!   Being a Director is definitely not easy, but what is in film, right?! It’s all hard,  but stepping into a Director role can be especially challenging

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Tagged director, film director
Set PA needs
May 30, 2022
  • film industry
  • Production Assistant

What Every Set Production Assistant Needs on a Film Set!

May 30, 2022 By Amber M Sherman2 Comments

What Every Set Production Assistant Needs on a Film Set! The one thing you want to be as a brand spanking new Set Production Assistant is at the very least – prepared properly to

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Tagged set PA, Set Production Assistant
film unit production manager
April 23, 2022
  • film industry
  • film production

What Does A Film Unit Production Manager Do?

April 23, 2022 By Amber M Sherman

What Does A Film Unit Production Manager Do? The Unit Production Manager is honestly a very mysterious position in film. No one knows what they do really, but they are super important to a

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Tagged film production, unit production manager, UPM
set production assistant books
January 7, 2022
  • film career
  • film industry
  • Production Assistant
  • Resources

6 Game-Changing Set Production Assistant Books Giving You the Advantage You Need

January 7, 2022 By Amber M Sherman

6 Game-Changing Set Production Assistant Books Giving you The Advantage You Need! Becoming a Set Production Assistant is hard. It’s hard to break in, it’s hard to keep getting hired, it’s just hard all

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Tagged set PA, Set Production Assistant, set production assistant books
why people leave the film industry
April 17, 2021
  • film career
  • film industry

Top 5 Reasons Why People Leave the Film Industry

April 17, 2021 By Amber M Sherman6 Comments

Top 5 Reasons Why People Leave the Film Industry I know what you’re probably thinking – “Wait, people leave the Film Industry, but why?! Aren’t all people on set just living the dream?” Filmmaking

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Tagged film, film production, filmmaking, why people leave the film industry

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