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In the day and age of VOD and self distribution models, is having a named actor in your low budget film as important as it used to be? I read another article recently that star power is not a factor for putting bums on seats in theaters anymore. Curious what others think?

Yeah I figured networking played a huge part in it, and having "friends in high places". Not all the directors of works I've seen have gone through the self-financing route. I'm sure a lot of them do, but not all. Here's an example: Rupert Sanders. He went from directing two short films to...

Whenever I see a new film being released or making the news I always look up the director on imdb. A common trend I've seen is the director made a few shorts before their first feature. In some cases the shorts have been award winning, but not in all cases. And some directors have even gone...