Independent
Film-Making Page
If you shoot a feature length movie on film, you can spend $30,000 (if you are        
being real frugal!) just buying the film-stock.   Developing it would be extra,   
about the same amount.    We can (and have) shot the same length movie on    
$200 worth of videotape.

This is what got me into the independent film-making business.  (And let me        
emphasize the word "Business"   Don't ask me what Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt or   
Jennifer Aniston are really like.   I am much more interested in how ordinary          
 people with reasonable amounts of money can make entertaining films.)

Edward Burns (The Brothers McMullan, She's The One) gave a very informative    
talk a few years ago at the Cinema Arts Centre here in Huntington, Long   
Island, giving some very valuable advice to independent film-makers.  The            
most important thing he said was "Just tell a good story.  Don't try competing        
with Hollywood.  Your car chase can't compare to theirs."  But you can tell a           
good story.  People will watch a good story even if the film looks rough.                   
  
Hollywood isn't interested in telling good stories.  They would rather  reach the    
broadest possible market with the most impressive special effects.  The story      
is secondary.   As a result, there is an opportunity  for independent film-makers    
to reach the segment of the public that wants content.  

If you would like to learn more about this business,
go to my company's website:   www.huntingtonactionfilms.com
Here I am with Frank Franconeri, a superb
   actor I used in many of my films, and a     
     former Miss Italy, Roberta Orlandi.
Poster art for my latest
film, SILVER NIGHT
My cameo appearance as a
policeman in SHARP AND
SUDDEN (2001)
What I love about digital video is  
how equipment such as a digital
camera mount, can be rigged for a
fraction of the cost of a film camera
mount.
My motto is: Publicity is better
than advertising.  We made Page
3 of The New York Daily News.