In the business of making films
My business partner, Stephina likes to say, “filmmaking is an extreme sport”, and let me tell you, she isn’t lying. We started our business about 5 years ago. We were starry eyed and totally convinced that we would each be multi-millionaires within a year. Cute, right? Well, I can report that we are not quite multi-millionaires yet, however, in the 5 years that we have been running our business in the South African media space, we have learnt things that not even the world’s best MBA could have taught us. This blog post is dedicated to some of my favourite tweeps on Twitter who asked me to blog about producing films, the lessons we have learnt and what advise I would give to aspiring film producers out there. So here goes. My first disclaimer is for anyone reading this to note that I am only writing about our personal experience of making films. Other people may have completely different views to mine. My second disclaimer is that; we are still new to filmmaking. We h
