Getting funding for your indie feature film…. the monumental task continues. While we all dream of a phone call from the big studios, you’ll probably have to find investors elsewhere. And sometimes magic strikes. We’re sitting down with Writer / Producer Hudson Phillips, who has two features under his belt. We will discuss how he obtained the money, managed those funds, and what he learned from his two projects that we can put to our own uses.

Hudson Phillips is a writer, producer, and founder of Mirror Box Films. He grew up in small-town South Georgia (thick accent and all) until his father relocated the family to Haiti to work as a pharmacist in remote mountain communities. After his dad unexpectedly passed away, Hudson returned to Atlanta (thankfully losing the accent) and fell in love with genre storytelling as a way to process his grief.

His first feature, the post-apocalyptic This World Alone, was released on Hulu, won Best Feature at six festivals and Best Screenplay at two, and earned a positive review in The New York Times. His second, the sci-fi romance Guacamole Yesterdays, is now available on major platforms following a nationwide 13-city theatrical tour and an award-winning 11-stop festival run.

Hudson has worked as a writer-for-hire and had an original spec optioned by Lions Gate Films. He’s also the author of Writing Unforgettable Characters and has taught screenwriting and indie film production at workshops and college campuses.

A former single dad to a now college-bound son, Hudson lives outside Atlanta with his wife, two rescue hounds, and a shit-ton of books.

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Is crowdfunding for your indie feature film giving you minor heart palpitations? We get it! We’ve done a few ourselves, and we still think raising funds via Kickstarter sounds daunting. So we’re bringing in a pro to walk us through all the ins and outs of the successful campaigns she’s been a part of over the years. We are pleased to introduce you to Paul Rhodes. Actor, Director, Producer, Paula is the ultimate go-getter. You may have seen her in any number of commercials or heard her voice in some of your favorite video games and cartoons. What we are really jazzed about is her feature film, “Delicate State”, that was made possible in part by crowdfunding. And seriously, Paula just gives great advice when it comes to this stuff. We’re thrilled to get to pick her brain.

Paula Rhodes loves challenging the pick-a-lane mentality and has stretched her creative wings in various areas from playing a stable of characters that includes Resident Evil villains and two of Barbie's sisters, winning awards for screenplays, producing multiple series, directing a feature film over the course of her pregnancy that went on to win the Audience Choice Award at Dances with Films and get global distribution, and which currently has her helping the Witches to burn back with @burnedmovie.

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Money makes the world go round. And it sure makes producing a feature film a whole lot easier. We are still deep in the development phase of our feature film, and we’re at a critical juncture… MONEY and BUDGETING. “Where's the money gonna come from?” Sets. Camera. Crew. Post Production. It’s all gotta be paid for, and the last time we checked our personal bank accounts, we were a few million short of the typical movie budget. So, how do we do this?!?! How much is this really going to cost? How do we get the money we need??? And when we get it, what do we do with it??? We are diving in! Budget. Funding. Greenlighting ourselves. Let's make it happen.

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Many independent feature films are led by a director who has also penned their screenplay. So, what should you do if you have a script but aren't a director yourself? The answer is to find a director and do so early in the process. For us, a key part of building our core team was finding a director who was a good fit for “Turns Out” and our specific brand of comedy. Fortunately, we connected with the team from Evening Squire Productions while showcasing our short films at various festivals, and one half of the Evening Squire team is the very talented Director Mike Hayhurst. Fresh off making his first indie feature, “And Through the Portal We Go,” we have loads of questions about what a director does at this phase of a film's development. WHAT IS IT YOU DO, MIKE??!?!

Mike Hayhurst is an award-winning director and producer for film and theatre. Born and raised in the UK, he co-founded Evening Squire Productions in 2016 and has created multiple award-winning short films including BEAT; Cook With the Heart (currently in development as a feature film); Upside Down Plain Face; 15 Down; Oma starring Lynn Cohen; and The Pits, a live-action puppet short about a lonely avocado in NYC that Frank Oz called “really good and very sweet.” Most recently, his proof-of-concept mockumentary about professional Finnish hobby horse, Ava Keppihevonen, went viral and generated over 14.5M views.

His directorial feature debut, And Through the Portal We Go, premiered in 2024. Additional feature credits include Buck Run, The Trip to Bountiful with Cicely Tyson, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short with Whoopi Goldberg.

Previously, he spent four years as an Associate at Bill Haber’s Ostar Enterprises (Rizzoli & Isles, TNT; Beauty and the Beast, CW; Nothing to Hide, directed by Neil Patrick Harris at Signature Theater; various Broadway projects).

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The team! The core crew. Your closest production homies. Your filmmaking ride or dies. This week, we’re talking all about the very core team of people you bring on to walk the long trudge of making a feature film together. Making a movie is no small feat, and bringing on your Director, Producer, and Cinematographer in the development phase of the production can be crucial. But who do you need this early on in the process, and what exactly are they doing?! Well, let's talk about that.

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How do you make your first indie feature film? H O W !?! If our years of making short films have taught us anything, it's to ask questions of those who have been where we want to go. Better yet, ask those questions of creators who are a few steps ahead of you on the journey, rather than those who are years down the road. We are thrilled to sit down with filmmaker Jenny Waldo and ask her: How did you develop your first feature? With her successful debut feature under her belt and her second one in the works, Jenny is truly the perfect person to chat with!

A producer, writer, and director, Jenny Waldo’s feature film directorial debut, Acid Test, adapted from her award-winning short, premiered at the Austin Film Festival and was nominated for the Texas Independent Film Award by the Houston Film Critics Society. Experienced in both documentary and scripted storytelling, past credits include associate-producing the indie feature The Preacher’s Daughter which sold to Lifetime and the Starz feature documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing among various shorts, documentary series, and music videos. Her second feature, Mustang Martha, is in development and was a Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist and participant of several development labs including the Stowe Story Narrative Lab. A graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts with a MFA in Film Production, Jenny educates and advocates for upcoming filmmakers through her consulting, volunteer work, and as a faculty member of Houston Community College’s Filmmaking Program. Specializing in based-on-true stories with personal and intimate films, her latest short, Twofer, premiering at the Houston Latino Film Festival, expands her directing work into the thriller genre!

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We are very lucky that our feature film has an amazing producer already on board. Filmmaker friends, we are thrilled to introduce you to Allison Moy Hayhurst, producer with Evening Squire Productions. In this week’s episode, we’re going to open up the can of worms that is producing. What is a Producer? What do Producers do? And when does your project need a Producer? We hope to answer all of these questions, and luckily, we have Allison here to help us make sense of it all.

Allison Moy Hayhurst is a southern-raised Chinese American NY-based producer, writer, and puppeteer. Most recently, she produced her first feature film, "And Through the Portal We Go", which premiered in 2024 and has already won multiple awards, including Best Feature, Best Actor, and Best Acting Ensemble. She is a co-founder of Evening Squire Productions and has been instrumental in the production and writing of their myriad of award-winning short films. Notable projects include live-action puppet short "The Pits"; coming-of-age dramedy "15 Down" (Amazon Prime); dark-comedy-horror-mockumentary "Cook With The Heart" (currently in development as a feature film); the spoken-word dance film "Upside Down Plain Face"; and the action-comedy "BEAT".

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So you gotta make a deck for your movie, and you're asking yourself, what's a deck even supposed to look like?!? Us too, friend, us too. We’ve been focused on creating a pitch deck for our feature film “Turns Out,” and after A LOT of back and forth, we’re starting to wrap our heads around what a deck really is. Never the gatekeepers, we’re excited to share everything we’ve learned and continue our research along the way.

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