CREATIVE DISTRICT

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Free Screening of The Haircut this Tuesday and Wednesday

The premiere screening for "The Haircut", a former CD grant winner, will be on Tuesday, November 11th at 6:30pm at Chinese Theatre 4 in Hollywood, and the second screening will be on Wednesday, November 12th at 3:30pm at Chinese Theatre 1.

TCL CHINESE 6 THEATRES Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center 6801 Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood, CA 90028

Tickets are FREE but are first come first serve. Everyday, tickets are released for the screening. If you aren't able to get tickets, check back in the morning. "The Haircut" will be screening with the feature film "Villa Touma." More info here: http://afifest2.afi.com/sections/T2643

The Haircut (Official) Trailer from Alexis Ostrander Korycinski on Vimeo.

About "The Haircut"

It's 1976 and petite 18-year-old Amy is among the first class of female cadets accepted into military service academy. Under incredible emotional and physical strain, Amy struggles to survive her first day, battling vicious sexism, swallowing self-doubt and fighting to prove she has what it takes in "The Haircut."

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New Project Discovery Tools, and a New $5,000 Grant!

This morning we called Actor/Writer/Director, Alexi Pappas and Director Jeremy Teicher to let them know that we chose their project Tracktown to be our latest $5,000 grant winner!

The film just recently wrapped and will be using the funds to complete post-production. Congratulations to the whole team at Tracktown, and be sure to follow the project on CD for updates!

In a small American town obsessed with competitive running, a famous but sheltered and lonely young runner rebels against her parents, coach, and everything she’s ever known in the midst of her first Olympic Trials. We're also excited to share that today we rolled out new discovery tools that make it even easier to find new projects to follow on CD. Browse projects by type, see which projects are popular, who's hiring, and more. Choose "Projects" from the main menu, or click through the images below to begin:

Looking for work on a feature film? Want to collaborate on a web series? New documentaries to support? Our new project filters help you define the search.

As always, thank you for being a part of this growing creative community. Now that October is here, a new month means a new chance to win our next $5,000 grant. Sign in now to get your project up to date, find new people and projects to follow, or your next gig.

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Introducing Creative District Messaging

Today we made it even easier for you to connect with new collaborators, and manage your professional relationships.

Now with your CD Inbox, you can control who messages you, and manage your professional conversations right on Creative District.

Access your inbox from the main menu, and change your inbox preferences in your "settings".

Keep your profiles ans projects up to date to find the right collaborators, your next gig, and to be considered for our monthly $5,000 grant! Sign in now to manage your inbox settings.

Thanks for being a part of the CD creative community!

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New Featured Projects

Two new Featured Projects this week on Creative District:

Camp Abercorn

Where boys learn to be men. Where grown men act like boys. Where worlds collide for a few short weeks every summer. CAMP ABERCORN is a dramatic series about a Boy Scout camp staff—not sponsored by the B.S.A.

We ran into Matthew Andrews and Jeffrey Simon of Camp Abercorn at Sundance 2014 and have been following the project ever since. Gearing up to film the pilot in October, we're excited to see the project making HUGE progress! 

With a little help from George Takei and his massive and loyal Facebook presence, the project's IGG campaign reached just over $100,000. 

George Takei Last-Hour Support Sends Gay Scout Series Over Indiegogo Goal. -

Camp Abercorn already has a ton of great teaser content on their youtube channel and Creative District as well as 7 open positions, so dive in and follow the project on CD to learn more. 

Tracktown

In a small American town obsessed with competitive running, a famous but sheltered and lonely young runner rebels against her parents, coach, and everything she’s ever known in the midst of her first Olympic Trials.

Nike Oregon Track Club Elite Pro Runner and award-winning filmmaker Alexi Pappas (Tall as the Baobab Tree) co-wrote and stars in this Feature, currently in production in Oregon. 

Alexi Pappas shines the light on TrackTown in her latest film. 

Meet the team, and see behind the scenes shots during production on Creative District. 

Bonus!: Emotional Sugar Daddy, a music video collaboration perhaps born (in part... can we take credit for that?) on CD just released the finished product, and it's hilarious: 

Emotional Sugar Daddy was shot at Maker City L.A.'s Media Lab, where we held out last filmmaker mixer, and for whom some of ESD's collaborators created its puppet-filled promo. 

If you know of great project on CD we should check out either to feature or consider for our $5,000 monthly grant, tweet us a link at @creativedistrct or tag us on Facebook! Projects can be any type, and at any stage for consideration. 

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Announcing the Creative District #CDWebSeries Grant Winner!

Each month we give away up to $5,000 in grants to support independent film and media makers in the Creative District community. In August, we offered our $5,000 grant to support one outstanding web series. With over 500 web series now showcasing their work on CD, choosing just one wasn't easy.

Today we'd like to congratulate Melissa Hunter and the team at Adult Wednesday Addams, as we're excited to announce that we'll be supporting the production of season 2 by granting the project $5,000!

Morbidly hilarious, the first six episodes of the series will leave you longing for season two, too. Melissa is currently raising funds for season 2, and we're told filming will begin this fall.

Follow AWA on Creative District for updates.

Thank you for all of your #CDWebSeries submissions! The great news for the rest of the CD creative community is that for September the grant program is open to ALL types of projects!   What we're looking for when considering grant winners:

Your project can be at any stage of completion. Whether you're in pre-production or post, we want to see your project's progress on CD.

Make great use of CD. Add collaborators, post open positions, and a variety of content.

Update your personal profile and have your team complete theirs to showcase your skills and experience.

Take a look at our Featured Projects, and meet our previous grant winners to see how others are using CD to showcase their work, find collaborators, and promote their projects.

View full terms of the CD Grant Program here.

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New Featured Projects: #CDWebSeries Edition

Now that we're in the final week before we choose August's #CDWebSeries $5,000 grant winner, we thought we'd feature just a few of our favorites on CD so far. 

Nearly 500 web series are showcasing their work and collaborators on Creative District, and if you're not among them yet, now is a great time to add your projects. Tweet your #CDWebSeries before August 31 for a chance at a $5,000 grant!

Here are three web series worth checking out in the meantime: 

Adult Wednesday Adams

Wednesday, now all grown up, moves out of the Addams Manor and to LA where she navigates adult responsibilities like jobs, romance & vengeance. I released the first season last fall and it received over 1 million views & gained 40,000 subscribers on YouTube.

Hilariously, and morbidly, well done, Adult Wednesday Addams has over 40,000 subscribers, and you'll want to be one of them. Follow the project on CD for updates, and hopefully find out soon when we can expect season 2. 

Margot & Marie

Besties since 1997, "Margot & Marie" is an entertaining, delightful, and truly original web series filled with authentic and hilarious charm. Watch these two navigate adulthood...M&M style!

Margot & Marie explore everything from "Grush"-ing, Stalking, Talking, and stealing Xanax to buy weed. Given that the writing of this blog was interrupted by almost 30 minutes watching 'just one more episode', we recommend a follow. 

I Am Los Angeles

I Am Los Angeles, an online documentary project, tells the stories of people who make Los Angeles the dynamic city that it is. While LA is well-known for Hollywood and Venice Beach, the city's cultural make-up is rich, varied, and deserving of media that highlights and documents the unexpected.

I Am Los Angeles features 30 videos in the series so far covering some of the most fascinating people and stories L.A. has to offer. Prepare to binge. 

p.s. If you've been following Capsule on CD, just a heads up that they've launched a Kickstarter campaign this week, and they're a Kickstarter staff pick! 

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New Feature: Now it's easier to manage job applications on Creative District

If you have open positions on your project, or plan to crew up soon, we just made it easier to manage applications and find the right collaborators. 

When you post a new job ad on your project and the applications start to roll in, you can now manage them right on CD. You'll receive an email notification for each application as well:

Once you've added an open position to your project, click on the job to view its details and review applications. 

On the job details page, you'll see the number of ad views and applications, and each applicant will be listed below. 

If you reject an applicant, they'll stay in this list marked as "rejected". 

When you're ready to make the hire, accepting an application will add that person to your project's collaborators. 

Voila! A collaboration is born. 

Take a look at this week's featured projects to see how others are using CD to showcase, collaborate and create. 

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Calling All Web Series! In August One #CDWebSeries Will Receive Our $5,000 Grant

Are you working on a web series? If so, this month's $5,000 grant could be for you!

To honor and support how this format is impacting the future of entertainment, this August we're offering a $5,000 grant to one of our most outstanding web series on Creative District.

With over 12,000 creatives collaborating on thousands of projects of ALL types, this is a chance for the Youtubers and Vimeo creators to shine. The Rules.

Your web series project must be on Creative District and kept up to date.

Tweet a link to your CD project using hashtag #CDWebSeries or share it on Facebook tagging Creative District between now and 11:59pm August 31, 2014.

One $5,000 grant winner will be announced  September 2, 2014.

View full terms of the CD Grant Program here.

What we're looking for when considering grant winners.

Your web series project can be at any stage of completion. Whether you're in pre-production or working on season 2, we want to see your project's progress on CD.

Make great use of CD. Add collaborators, post open positions, and a variety of content.

Update your personal profile and have your team complete theirs to showcase your skills and experience.

Be creative in showcasing your work on CD. (Exclusive behind the scenes content, etc.)

Take a look at our Featured Projects, and meet our previous grant winners to see how others are using CD to showcase their work, find collaborators, and promote their projects.

We're excited for the opportunity to support your projects, and if you're not working on a web series at the moment, no worries. Your CD projects remains in the pool for future grants.

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New Featured Projects

Capsule tells the story of an astronaut isolated on small ship traveling through space on a mysterious mission. Using the cold emptiness of space, the comfort of routine and the confines of the cramped ship the film explores the human desire for purpose- to impact others lives and be remembered.

Josh Mahan is a stop-motion animator, production designer and director originally from Greensboro, NC. After several years working in NYC, Josh now resides in Portland, the "spiritual home of stop-motion".

Together with Producer Adam Spielberg, Josh has been developing Capsule and a stop-motion television series currently called Planet Future.

The project's Kickstarter campaign will launch in the next week or so, coinciding with a screening of Leah Meyerhoff's I Believe in Unicorns, at the Portland Film Festival, for which Josh was Lead Animator and will be representing the film at the festival and talking to press.

The project is currently seeking 5 new collaborators, and especially a master in moldmaking and miniatures. Learn more about Capsule on CD.

Cindy confronts her brother Harry about skipping another family funeral, hoping to learn the darkest secret of his life. Starring Kristina Teves and Christopher Karbo. Cinematography by Ashley Barron. Music by William Seegers.

With the film's trailer in the works for a release in the next week or two, William J. Meyer's Camelot is in the final stages pending the completion of the score and some final grading. 

After going out to the festivals this fall and winter, Camelot will be released online next spring. 

Learn more about the project on CD, and get a look behind the scenes at the color grading process. 

Girl on the Ledge is an independent feature film about fictional photographer Ana Bauman and her dangerous journey of discovery.

Synopsis:

When Ana and Harry reach the pinnacle of success as fashion photographers, they decide this world of surface appearances is superficial and empty and change their lives. Harry becomes a painter and Ana pursues serious photography, drawn to people who live on the edge. As the couple establish their new identities, they drift apart. Ana becomes an eager sexual and artistic explorer, alienating Harry. But in spite of her many adventures, she obsessively believes that one day she and Harry will reconcile. In the midst of friends and family and world recognition, Ana becomes increasingly alone and tormented. After a feted exhibition of her works in New York, Ana’s artistic pursuits take a macabre turn when her father falls fatally ill. Ana the huntress of subjects to photograph is now the prey. This artist, who has always been interested in rituals of others, enacts the ultimate ritual of her own.

GOTL is using Creative District to share exclusive behind the scenes content during production. Follow along on CD for updates. 

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Your Creative District Feed is Here! See What’s New in the Community

We're very excited to announce that your Creative District feed is now live! Sign in and click "Home" in the main menu to get fresh updates from your fellow filmmakers, collaborators, and friends you follow.

(Click the image to view your feed and meet the #CDSummerShorts July Grant Winners!)

Keep your collaborators and followers up to date

Now with the Creative District feed you can:

See what's new on the projects of the people you follow.

Keep your followers and collaborators up to date on new developments in your project.

Attract new followers by sharing fresh and engaging content regularly.

Gain early support for your projects by sharing progress along the way.

Nearly 12,000 film and media makers are now using CD to find collaborators, jobs, and showcase their work. Thank you for being a part of this growing creative community. Sign in now to see what's new, and follow your favorite filmmakers.

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New Featured Projects

reddit doc is a large scale project producing a feature-length documentary about reddit.com and accompanying online content, including a documentary web-series, podcast, blog, and more.

From reddit: 

We're long time redditors and are definitely trying our best to navigate the many hurdles involved with this kind of project, but we're passionate about it and feel we have great material. Alexis Ohanian, Erik Martin, Alan Schaaf, and many others have already done great interviews with us, so we're very excited to show some of it off! Victoria has also been incredibly supportive and helped connect us to some great individuals.

Greg Tilton and the team at reddit doc are traveling from city to city interviewing redditors, including reddit's General Manager Erik Martin and co-founder Alexis Ohanian. In each episode reddit doc gets the inside scoop on reddit, redditors and their unique communities. 

First look: 

Heads up redditors and social media gurus: The project is currently looking for a social media coordinator. Follow reddit doc on Creative District for more. 

A darkly comic tale of two sisters growing apart... Sue (Rose McIver) runs a used mattress store owned by her mother. When Sue's sister (Jennifer Morrison) informs her that's she moving out of their place, Sue gives her the gift of a new mattress - one with a surprise inside...

Currently in post, Mattresside is produced by Patty West, Writer/Producer and Program Director for the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. 

Interested in collaborating with the team at Mattresside? The project currently has four open positions. 

This is a story about 17-year-old Li Xia who is stuck in purgatory or what the Chinese call Diyu (地獄), translated literally as “earth prison.” With her boyfriend Wang Jie, Li Xia tirelessly searches for liberation in an attempt to free her soul as she witnesses people around her transcend naturally.

Directed by UCLA Film graduated Christine Yuan, DIYU is currently in pre-production. Learn more about the visual style, location styling, collaborators and cast on CD. 

The project is currently in need of a sound/boom operator and a script supervisor. 

Christine did a great job telling her project's story in the early stages on CD, so we had to share. 

"CD has been a GREAT way to share the project with cast and crew, keep track of progress, and increase excitement and unity between all of us in the process." - Christine Yuan

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TWO Short Films to Receive Grants in July! #CDSummerShorts

Over 11,000 filmmakers are now collaborating on thousands of projects on CD, including short films, features, web series, music videos, and more. For the month of July, we thought it'd be fun to show off our shorts.

Instead of picking one filmmaker to win a $5,000 grant this month, we're going to spread the love and pick two short film projects to receive $2,500 each toward the completion of their projects!

The Rules.

Your short film project must be on Creative District.

You must tweet a link to your Creative District project including hashtag #CDSummerShorts between now and 11:59pm July 20, 2014.

Winners will be announced July 21, 2014.

View full terms of the CD Grant Program here.

What we're looking for when considering grant winners.

Projects can be at any stage of completion.

Make great use of CD. Add collaborators, post open positions, a variety of content, and tell your project's story. The more content you add to your project, the better! If you're in the early stages, be creative.

Update your personal profiles and have your team complete theirs. We want to know who you are and what you need to create more.

Take a look at our Featured Projects, and meet our previous grant winners to see how others are using CD.

We can't wait to check out your projects, and your tweets.

Follow us on Twitter @CreativeDistrct

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#CreateMore Q&A: My Life in Sourdough

A single French girl living in New York tries to break up with her sourdough starter to meet eligible men. Currently raising funds for production & post-production of season 2.

"I make cakes I bake films." - Marie C. 

We've had My Life in Sourdough on our Featured Projects page for some time now. The 5-part series of Season 1 is engaging and beautiful, and every episode "comes with a food video and a life-changing tip". (Major props to Marie and her collaborators, Charlotte and Chananun)

We asked MLIS's writer/director Marie C. about her experience on CD and how her project's coming along. Fortunately production on season 2 is underway so we can expect more delicious episodes and tips soon.

Foodies and romantics alike will definitely want to dig in. Learn more about the project on CD: My Life in Sourdough

CD: Tell us about your project and why you wanted to share it on Creative District.

Marie: My life in sourdough is a web series about the culinary and romantic adventures of a single French girl living in New York with her sourdough starter. Jeanne is choosing the right apples, but picking the wrong men, making buttermilk scones for guys who don't eat sugar, and baking cakes instead of having sex. 

Each narrative episode comes with a food video shot in slow motion, focusing on a recipe using locally sourced ingredients and cooked with a French twist. Originally, I wanted to create something that was close to a cooking show but with a narrative: sharing new recipes while also telling stories about an idealist character looking for love in the haystack that is New york city. 

I shot the first five episodes of season 1 in 2013 with my main two collaborators (Chananun Chotrungroj, cinematographer & creative consultant) and Charlotte Rabate (editor) and I'm now fundraising in order to start production of the next season in NY and upstate.  

When CD started, I thought it was the perfect platform to showcase My life in sourdough as I was looking for more collaborators and exposure as well as new opportunities to fundraise.  

I love how CD enables filmmakers to share their work, build a network, find collaborators and also apply for a grant - it's a really great combination!

CD: Have you found collaborators on CD? Can you tell us about your experience with that and how it's working out for you and your project?

  Marie: Not yet, but I've received a few email from people interested in getting involved in production or in post, and would love to get more! Right now, I'm looking for a producer to work on outreach and fundraising, as well a line producer to organize the production of the next season and an editor & assistant editor to cut it once it's in the can. 

CD: How do you think CD might be helpful to other filmmakers?

Marie: I think CD is becoming a community of filmmakers & creatives and I'm very glad to be part of this new network. Filmmaking is such a collaborative enterprise, it's all about finding great people to work with and CD is doing precisely that. CD feels different from other social media websites because it combines showcasing film content with finding new collaborators. CD is also be a way to stay inspired and learn from others filmmakers through the visuals they share from their own projects, as well as the Q&As. 

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#CreateMore Q&A with Featured Project We Just Met

Liam, an Irishman's surprise visit to his NYC girlfriend results in being snubbed, then inadvertently involved with a conniving, fun loving puerile chatterbox Stella who actively robs him. *Currently in pre-production*

We reached out to Featured Project We Just Met's Director, Screenwriter, and Editor Khawaja Muneeb Hassan to pick his brain on how he's been using CD to showcase his project and team, and talk about how he's been using CD to gain early support for the project and find new collaborators.

CD:  Tell us about your project and why you wanted to share it on CD.

Muneeb:  We Just Met is a unique twist on the romantic dramedy genre, fusing the elements of friendship, affection, betrayal and emerging diverse cultures with a classic "American Hollywood" love trope. Set in New York City, the story captures what it means to surrender to love through the metaphor of a foreigner (Liam) thrust into a totally unfamiliar, unforgiving, and quintessentially American urban environment, where he is forced to adapt.

The film's signature moment, about half-way through, blends the traditional story arc of a Hollywood romantic comedy with one of Bollywood's most enduring conventions: a dance number. As spontaneous and unexpected as it is cleverly organic and undeniably New York, this sequence is a melting pot of American culture and elevates We Just Metto be a transcendent audience experience; simultaneously familiar, and brand new.

I was introduced to Creative District a while back when I realized that my screenplay has potential to do well on screen. Professor Voelepl says, “This is a very well written Cinematic student short that could do well on big curtains.” That made me optimistic and I started searching for various grants and organizations where my talent can be appreciated and seen by the wider audience before its production. Thanks to Google “Creative District” popped up. When I joined CD I was by myself holding nothing but my logline and a screenplay. By now I have created my whole production team from CD and I am proud of it.  

CD: Have you found collaborators on CD? Can you tell us about your experience with that and how it's working out for you and your project?

Muneeb: Finding collaborators on Creative District has been extremely helpful.  Above all I met my producer Shane Salanitri from Creative District who is working with me side by side and guiding me at every point when I needed to get this amazing project done. As soon as someone applies for one of our open positions we can check out their page and see other projects that they are also collaborating on.  It really helps give us a sense of what type of person they are and the work ethic that they can offer for our film.  We are both highly committed to this project and have put a lot of time into this so far, so we want to make sure the people wecollaborate with have that same mindset as us, Creative District really simplifies that for us.

  CD: How do you think CD might be helpful to other filmmakers?

Muneeb: Creative District gives filmmakers from all over a chance to collaborate.  We all know one person cannot make a film alone.  I'm sure every person on Creative District is highly talented, each individual can bring a different thing to a film and being able to bring all those talents together really helps bring your film to the next level.  To achieve a great film, collaboration is a must.

We Just Met from Muneeb Hassan on Vimeo.

We Just Met currently has 20 collaborators, and one open position. If you're a visual effects artist looking to collaborate, get in touch.

Learn more about the project on CD: We Just Met

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New Featured Projects

GUNNER JACKSON is a series of five comedic short films that follow Jason Gunner Jackson, a 26 y/o inventor, on his daily adventures and his journey to prove that he is the subject of U.S. Government surveillance.

The project has received a Film and Media Arts Departmental Completion Grant and a Summer Research Opportunity Program Grant from Temple University, and is currently fundraising through Kickstarter (see the project and pledge at bit.ly/gunnerjackson - Only 3 days left!). 

Writer/Director Christian Strevy used a great mix of video, blog posts, photos and drawings that illustrate the film's aesthetics on Creative District. Learn more about the project and its team on CD: GUNNER JACKSON

Crowdfunding Video 

Skinhearts

In a society where humans have gone further than avoiding touch, stepping into forbid it, the sexual act has become an intolerable act of rebellion.

Director Sally FenauxBarleycorn caught our attention on Twitter after tweeting about new updates to her project on CD that illustrate the look and feel. Sally and her team at Skinhearts did such an amazing job at telling the project's story on Creative District that we had to share. 

We're happy to feature the project, as it's also quite beautiful.  

One of the biggest challenges indie filmmakers face in the early stages of a project, is telling its story and gaining interest with little more than an idea and a script.

Skinhearts did a particularly outstanding job of showcasing the project on CD using a mood board, quotes, video and photos that provide creative inspiration for the project. 

More importantly, the community can see the project for what it is, and how all of our creations begin: A work in progress. 

Follow along as the project progresses on CD to learn more about Skinhearts and the project's team. If you're interested in collaborating on the project, it currently has 7 open jobs. 

See all of our current Featured Projects. 

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Creative District’s latest $5,000 Grant Winner: My Country, No More

Tuesday night at the lovely Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, we celebrated the launch of Bright Ideas Magazine’s second issue with our friends at Seed & Spark and Film Independent. There we announced co-directors Rita Baghdadi and Jeremiah Hammerling and their team at My Country, No More as our latest $5,000 grant winners!

Bright Ideas Issue 2 features a beautiful 12-page photo essay on My Country, No More and is available at L.A. Film Fest this week. Learn more at brightideasmag.com.

My Country No More is a character-driven documentary that humanizes the clash between agriculture and industry by exploring a fundamental question: what and who are we willing to sacrifice in our pursuit of progress?

The $5,000 Creative District grant will go toward the composition of the film’s score and bring them a step closer toward finishing the film this fall.

Learn more about My Country, No More and the film’s collaborators on Creative District.

  On the frontier of a modern day oil boom, a North Dakota farming community fights to maintain their way of life.

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Featured Project: Chasing Valentine Offers Video Diaries to Fellow Filmmakers Throughout Production

After the tragic loss of the love of his life, Chase, a detached writer stuck with a day job of editing adult films finds inspiration from an unlikely call girl, Coraline. But is Chase ready to uncover her dark side? Pretty Woman meets Blue Valentine. *Currently in pre-production*

Throughout its production, Chasing Valentine's Director Navin Ramaswaran and crew are producing video diaries to share their experience with fellow filmmakers. Ahead of its crowdfunding campaign launching on Indiegogo July 14, we think it's a smart way to both promote the project, and share valuable tips with indie filmmakers on the fly. 

From Navin Ramaswaran:

Making my first feature film (Nara) was the best learning experience of my career. It was truly my film school. Although I had made shorts and had worked on movie sets and shadowed other directors, there is nothing like getting your hands dirty and actually making your first film. So my idea for releasing these Video Diaries is to give aspiring filmmakers and filmmakers who are about to venture into their feature film debut a chance to watch us make my next feature - every step of the way. It’s a film school of sorts. And I intend to be completely transparent throughout the process - you’ll get to see our development process, casting, funding, production, marketing, all the gear we use, issues/setbacks that arise, tips & tricks, etc. You don’t really learn anything from fluffy, everyone patting each other’s backs Hollywood EPK’s or “making-of’s” - but thisis the real deal. This is us getting down and dirty as we make this micro-budget, independent drama. We’re Chasing Valentine - come along for the ride!

There are currently 4 videos available in the series. Enjoy:

Director Navin Ramaswaran and writer Neal Schnider dish on the writing process. 

Follow Chasing Valentine on Creative District.