Loads of news in this issue!
Lois Weber News
First up, I can officially share with you that I'm an Honorary Board Member for the Lois Weber Film Festival, happening next week!
Second up, I will be doing Red Carpet Interviews for all the filmmakers taking photos and screening films on Friday nig...
Celebrating Women in Film throughout history!
The Mothers Of Modern Film
I wanted to share a really cool article VideoMaker wrote about several important women filmmakers that history forgot. There is ONE sentence that I have a beef with, but the rest of the article is pretty cool.If you want t...
On Writing
Sometimes when you've spent any significant block of your life intensely writing, your brain starts to melt and vision starts to blur. This week, I just wanted to send a special Shout Out to aaaaalll the fellow writers here who know this feeling all too well. You are rock stars. The...
Filmmaking is a marathon. Bring the chill, and success will follow.
Optimization
Sometimes we get SO many gigs that the Community Fundraisers section gets buried at the bottom of a very long scroll. Since there are so few fundraisers we list at any given time, I just decided to pull the entire ...
ALERT!
"DEAD OF WINTER" has been POSTPONED! The original dates were set for this weekend, Feb 21 and 22nd. The organizers have sent out communications saying that there was a safety concern they could not ignore, and that they must reschedule the event. All vendors and pass holders will be honor...
Convention Prep
I wanted to clear something up - Dead of Winter is as much a Horror Convention as it is a Film Festival. There will literally be people there that come exclusively to booth hunt, and will not see a single film. And that's okay! Everyone should fan the way they want to fan!As so...
DOW Plans
I am excited, but I will keep this short: I wanted to recap ALL that Friendly Filmmaker will be offering at Dead of Winter, AND announce the secret I teased last week. 1) We helped make 3 films that will be screening, among the other excellent horror selections. 2) I'll be a guest on...
First - apologies for the delay in getting this newsletter out. Friendly Filmmaker stands with Minnesota, so in solidarity, I did not work yesterday.
DOW Panel
I am SUPER honored to report that I've been invited to be a guest on the newly announced panel titled "Miss-Gendered: The Importance ...
Fundraising Fun
I wanted to give a special shoutout to filmmaker Adam Newman, for putting together a really unique way to raise money for a film.
His team is making a fantasy adventure comedy set in medieval times. So, you know, not cheap 💸. But instead of more traditional fundraising routes, ...
Warning!
Last newsletter, we included a Casting Call that turned out to be a scam! Please be on guard for this project:
Project Title: “NEW DIMENSION”Location: Worcester MA Shoot Date: January 23-25th, 2026Compensation: Paid (Minimum $250-600, Please email for more info)Blessing (20-25) – A n...
Boston 48
Friendly Filmmaker will be doing the Boston 48 Hour Film Project this year in May! I just signed up. This will be the 10th 48HFP I've ever done! Can't wait!
Book Update
Still finalizing the edits to the Friendly Filmmaker Checklist . We also ordered the ISBNs for the book! Very offi...
Book Update
This month, my primary focus will be on getting the Friendly Filmmaker Checklist out to customers. We were set to go in December, but I just got a few key edits back from one of our Readers and there are important revisions that I need to incoporate before sending the final order t...
