Hi again, Marc here with a report from opening day and the first day of meetings in the Emerging Narrative section for my character driven crime drama “Inside the Machine.” Yesterday started with an orientation with IFP folks, in a room full of other writer/directors looking for producers. Before they got started we all introduced ourselves, and afterwards started trading cards and contact information right away. I know how I felt, and informal chats revealed that I was not alone: having written a script, been selected to Project Forum, and maybe practiced pitching a bit, we didn’t really know what […]
by Marc Maurino on Sep 21, 2010Hello there. My name is Marc Maurino, as the byline indicates, and close watchers of this blog might remember that a few days ago there was a post entitled “Why I’m Looking For a Producer at Independent Film Week.” That post just dove into what I’m looking for in a producer and was scant on background information about myself, because it actually started life as a letter I wrote to Filmmaker magazine editor Scott Macaulay a few weeks ago, in response to his query in one of his editor’s letters about an upcoming article for the magazine (yes, I sometimes […]
by Marc Maurino on Sep 19, 2010I produced my last short, which, with a cast/crew of 20, paying almost everyone, camera package out of L.A., film from NYC, housing and feeding everyone for five days, etc… — nearly killed me. So I’m clear on the fact that while I’ll likely take (and earn) a producer credit on my first feature, I desperately want someone who is going to take over the management of the project and someone who is going to nurture me. The biggest problem I found with self-producing is that I couldn’t take the time for myself as an artist to regroup and center […]
by Marc Maurino on Sep 17, 2010