it's not. In 2005 we set out to may an ultra-low budget film called Dead in the Water. For fifteen days we made camp in northern Wisconsin and did just that. Less than a year later we had our first sale to Indian Pictures. They picked up the rights to our movie for distribution in North America. Nearly five years later I figured Dead in the Water had run its course and be forgotten except for the few of us who worked on it. But then I got an e-mail the other day with ...
Last week I did a little location scouting with Fred Miller, the d.p. of The End Has Gone. The photo of the house was taken by Thomas Merton and used with permission.
For me the hardest part of any production is raising the money to make a film. Many people know films are expensive to make, especially Hollywood films. We see those numbers every day: Watchmen cost between $125 and $150 million to make. Even a "low budget" film such as Slumdog Millionaire cost an estimated $15 million. The real low budget film is a million or less, dubbed by most "ultra low budget". My first feature was one such film. Dead in the Water cost a mere $12,500 and ...
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