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Alex Ferrari once listed a video game on Amazon for $60, bought it from GameStop for $15, and had GameStop ship it straight to the customer. It worked about 40 times, until GameStop's fraud department noticed one credit card mailing games to 40 different addresses. How he got from there to Indie Film Hustle: 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… #MAKEIT #indiefilm #filmmaking

The fellas are back for Halloween week. 🎃 Indie Talk #105: a federal film tax credit that would give indies up to 30% back, AI actors in the SAG-AFTRA contract, and Nick on the new A Different World: "Just don't call it A Different World." youtu.be/xOKMq5NMFV8 Unedited version on Apple: apple.co/4yYNJzk

$1M on screen. $300K back. That's the indie math under the proposed federal film tax credit. "Be indie at a million." Indie Talk #105 👇 youtu.be/xOKMq5NMFV8 Unedited version on Apple: apple.co/4yYNJzk

Let us tease you this weekend... Full Episode: apple.co/4AM1hjP

Nichole Marie Lim has spent 15 years as a Local 798 makeup artist — Holland with Nicole Kidman among the credits — and now writes and directs her own films. Six things from the episode 🧵

"They keep making stuff no one asked for. No one asked for you to take away our physical ownership of things." The tech posture, stated plainly: they don't know what they want until I tell them what they want. 👇 🎥 youtu.be/LCkk0H5bRGg

Clear the Set! (w/ Isabel Hagen)

Nick is wildin' 😂

Isabel Hagen wrote, directed, produced and starred in On a String (imdb.com/title/tt30345011/). It won Best Screenplay at Tribeca and it's in theaters now. Six things from the episode 🧵

Before zombies ate brains, "Zombie" meant something else entirely: a person stripped of agency. The metaphor came out of slavery and colonial power, then got recast as a monster. There's a documentary about it — and a century of horror movies that never mentioned where the idea came from.

"Platform burnout happens when you and your ego convince you that you are screaming into the void and no one cares about you." Iron Lung. Obsession. Backrooms. All three built an audience over years while nobody was looking — and had one when the feature landed. 👇 🎥 youtu.be/LCkk0H5bRGg #IndieFilm #Filmmaking

Reel Q&A, five questions, three minutes: — laurels from Cannes/Sundance/TIFF genuinely raise your odds of a sale — stack your genres: "comedy drama horror" is algorithmic candy — fans follow the filmmaker, not the film

"All information should be readily available and public to everyone." Follow the Infoist philosophy to the end, and we have no copyright and no IP. That's the big goal. youtu.be/LCkk0H5bRGg

Sony is going 100% digital. You don't own the game; you license it, and it can be taken back. Xbox went the other way: we keep our discs, get a digital option, and can resell it later. Indie Talk #104 turns that into the bigger question. 👇 🎥 youtu.be/LCkk0H5bRGg #PhysicalMedia #CreatorEconomy

"Ideas are common. Perseverance is rare." That's Casey Neistat's line, and Oscar Boyson has been running on it since he answered the Craigslist ad that put him in the Neistats' studio in 2007. Roughly twenty years of producing other people's work and making his own shorts on the side later, he directed his first feature. He's blunt about what that actually took — and about the people he meets who have the million-dollar idea and want someone else to go build it. Full conversation on YouTube. 🎬 youtu.be/FOM8-oasYZw

Jeffrey Pittle (@pittleworks) was a high school sophomore in South Florida when he read that Will Eisner — the comic legend the Eisner Awards are named after — had a studio fifteen minutes away in Boca Raton. He made his mom drive him over and rang the doorbell. New SUMMARIES. 🧵

"The burnout is real. It feels like throwing ice cubes at the sun." Chris Barkley's counter-argument is the box office: Iron Lung, Obsession, Backrooms all landed because those creators didn't quit when no one was watching. Five questions, three minutes 👇 themakeitpodcast.store/shop/…