The Craftsman Fellowship
Get your film made. Stop guessing how.
For filmmakers and producers working on their own projects. The frameworks, the real numbers, and a room of people making films the same way, with me on a live call every month.
Join the Fellowship, $495 a yearOr $49 a month. 30-day money-back guarantee. Full refund, no questions asked.
You are piecing it together alone.
Everything you can find for free about making and financing an independent film is either written by people who have never raised money, or written for a studio system you will never have access to. So you piece it together from podcasts, a Reddit thread and whatever a distributor told you at a festival, and you make the same expensive mistakes everyone else makes.
Not because you are careless. Because nobody shares what actually happens.
Two ways the next year goes.
On your own
- The project stays in development another year.
- Every investor meeting starts from scratch.
- You learn the expensive lessons by paying for them.
- No audience waiting when the film is finished.
In the Fellowship
- A clear plan for the project: budget, raise, release.
- A way to talk to money that sounds like business.
- The mistakes, learned from mine instead of yours.
- An audience you start building before you shoot.
What you get.
- A live group Q&A with me every month over Zoom. Bring the real problem: the financing question, the deal point, the thing you cannot ask publicly. Every call is recorded, and every past call is waiting for you on replay the day you join.
- A 30-minute one-on-one call with me. Your project, your question.
- Behind-the-scenes access to the films we produce. Not the highlight reel. The budgets, the decisions and the things that went wrong while they were going wrong.
- The full archive and the MOVIE framework, the system I use to build every project, and the filmmakers using it alongside you.
- The private Inside Craftsman Films podcast. Members only, and considerably more candid than the public show.
- A copy of BLOCKBUSTER, the book, with annual membership.
- Early access to the Producer Retreat, before seats open to the public.
Who it is for.
Filmmakers and producers with a project who need the business underneath it. If you took the Producer's Scorecard and want to fix what it found, this is the place to start.
Who it is not for.
If you want someone to read your script, this is the wrong product. If you own a film company with a team and want to grow the business, look at the Craftsman Guild.
$495 is less than two hours of a film attorney. If it saves you one bad clause or one wasted festival run, it has paid for itself several times over. And if it is not worth it in the first 30 days, tell me and I will refund every dollar. No questions asked.
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