Filmmaker Field Notes
Weekly updates on selling scripts and making films in 2025.
Instagram has an unlimited views glitch. Once you crack their algorithm, the same principles work everywhere short-form content lives...
Most days, I wake up with about 10% belief in what I'm doing.
Plus: Auteur 2.0 playbook, the four phases of next gen filmmaking, and how we got 500k subscribers for a man who makes billions.
I just turned my script into an AI trailer using 5 tools in under 2 hours for free.
Plus: my first post got 100k views, advice from Brendan Kane, and making a Jackass mini-doc.
Plus: short content that works on every platform, advice from Brendan Kane, and making a Jackass mini-doc.
Plus: my first attempt to go mega-viral, 1k viral hooks, and that one time my friend jumped off a balcony.
I sat down with about 20 screenwriters in Buzztown. Different ages, backgrounds, experience levels. Yet every single one shared the exact same regret...
Plus: my first book for $ 0, the post that got me 1M views, and where to connect with filmmakers.
Plus: Rian Johnson's short film "Ninja Ko," 16-year-old gets A24 deal, and my interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Plus: 5 unknown filmmakers who bypassed Hollywood and built empires from their bedrooms.
It's time for a major change...
