Filmmaker career advice

I made films for 6 years before I got sick of being a starving. Be prepared to kill yourself for no money and if your luck you might even complete a project or two. Even if you do, no money. Film is dying, try doing web series or some shit. You will only get kind of good after 10 years but you will kill yourself by then anyway.

>>18606027

first and foremost, produce your own mini series. its actually easier to do this outside of the city than inside of los angeles. buy a DSLR, spend a few weeks making short films and learning what you need to do, then make your web series. if you still want to make TV after that, go ahead and move to LA.

you do it by schmoozing at parties, trying to be an intern in a writers room, and slowly getting promoted over the years. while doing that develop your own pilots and pitches, as if you get the right idea to the right person you can skip the line.

im about to go shoot a horror film, been in LA for 7 years and still wroking on the independent side.

>>18606027

As somebody in the indie sector who just wanted to be a camera op, but some how ended up being a DP and director most of the time, I think all it comes down to is how hard you're willing to work.

If you're asking if its a waste of time or not, then maybe that is your answer. As someone who wanted to be a lawyer, and accidentally fell into this, I realize now I would die for this. Even if I was working at McDonalds, I would still be creating films.

Everyone comments on my energy and drive. My constant need to be experimenting and creating something. And yes, I'm suicidal af too.

So, idk. Either its in you or it isn't.

>>18606377
not op how do you know if it's in you or no

you do know that there are +100 jobs in the film Industry? u don't have to aim at director...
i personally like DP and set design

>>18606444

like this guy said:
>>18606351

do it on your own. if oyu havent started producing quality shorts, no ones going to take a risk on you with a TV series or a movie. look at most of the modern greats and you'll find they all broke into the industry by creating a really good indie film, which got picked up a studio for distribution and then after it did well they approached said director for studio films.

if you want to see if you got it in you, make a movie or web series. if you can't even do that on your own, then you're just going to fantasize about how great a movie would be if you had unlimited resources for the rest of your life.