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Oct 2023
56m 59s

Adventures in Indie Filmmaking and Lever...

NO FILM SCHOOL
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How do you handle post set blues? How do you properly adapt something you don’t have the rights for? What can we all learn from Taylor Swift’s recent movie?  In today’s episode, No Film School’s Charles Haine, GG Hawkins, and Jason Hellerman discuss: Shooting an indie film in panama - excitement, exhaustion, and mosquito bites All the work involved after ... Show More
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