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How to make movies

Want to get started making your own movies but need a little help? We've got top tips from the some of the UK's leading filmmakers.
Script Workshops
Script Workshops
Get your script onto the screen
Screenplays are vital to the success of the industry, so is anything being done to encourage and protect their writers?
Shark Hunt
The 24 Hour Film Challenge
Watch the winning shorts
Upping the ante on previous years' 48 Hour Challenges, this year, filmmakers had a mere 24 hours to make and edit their shorts. Watch and read about the results here.
How to find an audience
Get Your Short Film Distributed
How to find an audience
"If you make a film for over £40,000 you will never make your money back... make it for around £10,000 and if it's good, you do stand a chance.
So you want to be a runner?
So you want to be a runner?
How to break into the biz
Runner, gofer, trainee - however you want to dress it up, runner has remained the standard term for point-of-entry jobs in the film and television business.
Shane Meadows
How to make DV films
Shane's World
Shane Meadows guides you through 4 of his own short films
Dish
How to make a short film
Dish
A step by step guide to the making of this tasty short film: watch it develop scene by scene and read the director's diary
Funding Your Short Film
If you know where to look there is cash available to help new filmmakers of all levels.
Speed Dating For Filmmakers
The partnership between writer and producer is often described as a marriage. But how do they ever meet?
The Ultimate Cannes Survival Guide
How to hit the Riviera for a taste of the world's most famous film festival
Free sample documents for filmmakers
Make your shoot look professional
Call sheets, Daily Progress Report, Crew Agreement form, Location Agreement, Location Finders Checklist, Movement Order, Release Form and Script Breakdowns
Talking Hollywood
How to be a hit in Hollywood
So what's it really like?
How to get cash out of Hollywood
While living in the UK
Hollywood players
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How to survive Hollywood
Top Brit Producer Jeremy Bolt tells you how
Short Film schemes
48 Hr Film Challenge update
See 2003's winning shorts
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