It can be hard balancing school and shooting your first feature film as a student filmmaker. 

This week we talk with a panel of filmmakers live from the Sonscreen Film Festival, our sponsor, about how they were able to make their first features. The panel includes three former students and one current professor from Southern Adventist University.  In this episode, they share how their project was funded, what their biggest expense was, and how they've transitioned into full-time filmmaking.

Listen to learn how these former students made their first feature film.

Key Points:
1:55 - After 95 (Production Company) Latest Production
4:24 - Michelle Noland Feature Filmmaker
5:42 - Nicholas Livanos Feature Filmmaker
8:46 - Sydney Tooley Feature Filmmaker
12:14 - How they raised funds for their projects
17:10 - Biggest Spend
19:18 - Transitioning from student to full-time filmmaker
28:13 - Managing life & filmmaking
31:11 - Working with an international crew
35:15 - Favorite gear
41:49 - Something going wrong
53:42 - Other jobs to pay bills
55:17 - Future plans with filmmaking
58:55 - Merging music & filmmaking
59:48 - Where to watch the panels' projects
61:42 -  What would you do over again

Links
Michelle Noland Film
Voices Rising
Jared Jamison
Michelle Noland
School of Visual Art & Design at Southern Adventist University
Sydney Tooley

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