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How Steven Spielberg broke into Hollywood

By LAvideoFilmmaker | Published: January 9, 2010
Steven Spielberg started making movies as a young child, using Super 8 equipment. He was extremely ambitious from the outset and made his first feature film at the age of seventeen. The film, Firelight, premiered on the 8th March 1964 in Phoenix, Arizona. The film was, of course, low-budget; Spielberg shot it with a good [...]
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Expert tips on producing your first feature

By LAvideoFilmmaker | Published: June 29, 2009
This post is my write-up of another seminar I attended at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. This seminar took place on the same day as the one about film publicity. The panel in this seminar was composed by an independent film director, an Executive Vice President of a distribution company, an independent [...]
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