How To Write a Screenplay in Ten Days and Shoot a Movie in Less

Making a micro-budget film in a short span of time may feel like an impossible task. What would you say if we told you that these limitations actually make the filmmaking process easier?

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In today’s episode, No Film School’s Charles Haine, GG Hawkins, and Jason Hellerman speak with filmmakers Matt Hirschhorn and Eric Cohen, who used No Film School’s How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks to write their film Wine Club.

We talked about:

• The origin of Wine Club and how Matt and Eric’s reverse engineered the film
• How the limitations and parameters of shooting a micro-budget film are liberating
• Staying calm in the face of a literal storm during a rain out in California
• Cultivating a ‘no assholes’ policy during filming
• Having the entire film edited by the Second AC who had no prior editing experience
• Why they are considering self-distribution
• Their trick for shooting very quickly
• Not knowing how the cast would work together before filming
• Attending film school in North America as an immigrant

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