Film Courage Interactive

So last night I attended the third "Film Courage Interactive" event at the Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles. The event is run by David Branin & Karen Worden (www.Filmcourage.com). They put on a weekly radio show where they interview indie filmmakers, and now they've expanded it to this monthly screening event where they show REAL indie films. Not 5,000,000 dollar indie films, but little ones. $10,000 or $20,000 movies. The kind of movies that so many of us are making but don't have a chance to show in theaters as easily because we don't have some name actor in the movie.

Anyway, it's a really cool event. It's in it's infancey, but they are doing a great job of getting people out to chat, meet each other, watch some true indie films, often with a Q&A afterwards, and then they have what we have affectionately called "filmmaker group therapy" where whoever would like to tells who they are, what they're working on and lessons they've learned or problems they face.

I've me a number of really cool folks there this time and last time. People working on indie films at various stages. Some in preproduction like us with "Straight On Till Morning". Some all finished, festival favorites who are looking for distribution like "Scenesters".

If you're an indie filmmaker in LA, I highly recommend coming out, and getting inspired, or at least meeting some cool folks, making movies, that aren't full of shit. :)

And if you can't make it, check out the Film Courage radio show, noon on Sundays. (or archived to enjoy whenever you like).