88 Cups of Tea

Financing Your Film, Creating Short Films for Career Opportunities as a Director, Efficiently Communicating with Actors to Receive the Performance You Need, Casting Specific People to Create an Authe

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Enjoyed this episode? Please leave me an honest rating and review by clicking here. It'll take a good second for the link to take you directly to the "ratings & reviews page", don't forget to sign into your iTunes account when prompted.  A heartfelt thank you in advance for your time! It helps me so much in getting this podcast out there to share with more listeners!  WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE:
  • How creating a short film can help your feature film tremendously while your feature is in development (Hint: Financing, calling card for your directing career, and more)
  • How Leah prepared and directed the underage lead actress for a graphic sex scene in a respectful and sensitive manner
  • The very best thing a director can do to receive the performances they want from an actor
  • Why Leah chose stop motion puppet animation to portray the most intimate fantasy parts of her film and how she animated it
  • Exactly how Leah financed her feature film
  • How Leah found her first feature film investor through the film festival circuit for her short film
  • Using Kickstarter as a specific technique to maximize the exposure of your project
  • How intentionally casting very specific people hugely impacted theauthenticity of Leah’s feature film
  • Why writing grants are really helpful even if you don’t receive the grant
  • How limited resources can be incredibly beneficial in expanding your creative boundaries
  • How Leah found her crew for her award-winning feature I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS that world premiered at SXSW

Be sure to head over to Leah's shownotes page for more info and the links to the book and resources she mentions at 88cupsoftea.com/podcast/leahmeyerhoff

  LEARN MORE ABOUT LEAH MEYERHOFF

 

Leah Meyerhoff is an award winning filmmaker whose debut narrative feature I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS was released theatrically in 2015 after premiering at SXSW, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival and additional awards from Woodstock Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, First Time Fest, Tribeca Film Institute, IFP, NYU and the Adrienne Shelly Foundation. Meyerhoff’s previous work has screened in over 200 film festivals and aired on IFC, PBS, LOGO and MTV. She is a fellow of the IFP Emerging Narrative Labs, IFP Narrative Finishing Labs, Tribeca All Access Labs, and the Emerging Visions program at the New York Film Festival. Meyerhoff is also the founder of Film Fatales, a female filmmaker collective based in New York with over a dozen local chapters around the world. She holds a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University and an MFA in Directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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