No Budget Film School

I just had a pleasant conversation with Mark Stolaroff, the founder of the No Budget Film School. He seems like one of the good guys, very passionate and sincere about teaching people how to make high-quality festival movies for very little money.

He's interested in helping people learn how to make the kind of movies that will launch their careers in the industry. Movies like Pi, Following, and Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, all of which were produced for less than the catering budget of a typical studio film, but which gave the filmmakers a foot in the door to make movies that actually have catering budgets.

Mark takes the SoCal Film Group philosophy ("Stop waiting for permission to make your movies") and applies it to feature filmmaking. I heartily recommend signing up for his class.

But hurry - it's this weekend!