Thank you so much for featuring Justin Milton. I enjoy Urban Thrillers and produced my 1st urban thriller feature film last year that was distributed on Tubi. It is always a pleasure to learn from those who came before and paved the way for other filmmakers in the indie low-budget high-quality films targeted toward the black/brown community.
Great and inspiring interview as I'm currently working on my first feature length film. As a black man, I feel you on not wanting to make "hood movies". I grew up in New York City during the 80s crack era where sometimes we slept in bathtubs due to all the bullets flying around and that's not something I want to glamorize. My first film is a "romantical" comedy and my second is a thriller with a twist. I'm the writer, director, dp, sound guy, editor and colorists. LOL. I'm also deciding on whether to submit to Maverick or take it to Film Hub. I'm not a fan of festivals. To me it seems like an old way of thinking, especially when you can go directly to the consumer now. I'm in a ton of Facebook groups and I notice a difference between black filmmakers and others. We just make shit. Sometimes it's bad (as you can see on Tubi) but we learn and make the next ones better and improve. We don't tend to sit around and wait to be discovered at a film festival or talk ourselves into insisting we can't make a proper movie unless we can get 100k in investor money. We just do it for better or for worse. We understand that a major part of Tubi's success was due to the Black Cinema section. Yes those low budget movies that might have crappy audio and bad cinematography. Lol. The movies that go ignored by the general public but has black audiences going wild for them. Black filmmakers have been making quite a bit of money lately and hopefully this trend continues. Again, great interview. And what's funny is my wife and I just watched Karen last week. Best believe I studied every shot.
Just worked on a film with him and we shot it in a few days, minimal locations and cast. It’s when you have multiple locations, lengthy dialogue/action and a big cast when things get complicated
Sembra interessante, voglio imparare, ho il mio lungometraggio da lanciare e spero che mi porti rendita in modo da poter fare altri film. In Italia, non c'è questa via, voi in USA avete delle piattaforme interessanti, è difficile , ma bisogna essere forti.
Thank you so much for featuring Justin Milton. I enjoy Urban Thrillers and produced my 1st urban thriller feature film last year that was distributed on Tubi. It is always a pleasure to learn from those who came before and paved the way for other filmmakers in the indie low-budget high-quality films targeted toward the black/brown community.
Thanks for watching - really pleased you enjoyed the episode + big thank you to Justin for sharing his knowledge. What is the name of your film?
@@thehonestfilmmaker Elegy. It was on Tubi. It finished its run.
Great and inspiring interview as I'm currently working on my first feature length film. As a black man, I feel you on not wanting to make "hood movies". I grew up in New York City during the 80s crack era where sometimes we slept in bathtubs due to all the bullets flying around and that's not something I want to glamorize. My first film is a "romantical" comedy and my second is a thriller with a twist. I'm the writer, director, dp, sound guy, editor and colorists. LOL. I'm also deciding on whether to submit to Maverick or take it to Film Hub. I'm not a fan of festivals. To me it seems like an old way of thinking, especially when you can go directly to the consumer now. I'm in a ton of Facebook groups and I notice a difference between black filmmakers and others. We just make shit. Sometimes it's bad (as you can see on Tubi) but we learn and make the next ones better and improve. We don't tend to sit around and wait to be discovered at a film festival or talk ourselves into insisting we can't make a proper movie unless we can get 100k in investor money. We just do it for better or for worse. We understand that a major part of Tubi's success was due to the Black Cinema section. Yes those low budget movies that might have crappy audio and bad cinematography. Lol. The movies that go ignored by the general public but has black audiences going wild for them. Black filmmakers have been making quite a bit of money lately and hopefully this trend continues. Again, great interview. And what's funny is my wife and I just watched Karen last week. Best believe I studied every shot.
Thanks for listening - I'll pass on your comments to Justin
Great interview Justin. Thank you for everything you have done for the Houston film community over the years! You are needed!
Thanks Alex
Excellent interview! Great information👍👍
Thanks for listening!
Nice interview with someone who's actually done it from scratch
Agree - Justin is great and knows his stuff
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thanks for listening!
Be great to know how many shoot days you’re doing? Also, how many crew. Might shoot in Houston myself someday. Great stuff. Thx!!
Just worked on a film with him and we shot it in a few days, minimal locations and cast. It’s when you have multiple locations, lengthy dialogue/action and a big cast when things get complicated
From my observations… I just graduated film school so working crew to learn these tricks from people like Justin
I usually shoot 8-10 days with about 10 crew members.
Great interview!
Thanks for listening!
Great video and good advice
Thanks for listening 👍
They don't like nudity, got it. I didn't hear anything about gore though (:
Excellent video. Very insightful.
Glad you enjoyed the video + yes I'm with you - gore all the way! 😃
Not bad!
Hi, how can I get on your podcast as a film maker?
Sembra interessante, voglio imparare, ho il mio lungometraggio da lanciare e spero che mi porti rendita in modo da poter fare altri film. In Italia, non c'è questa via, voi in USA avete delle piattaforme interessanti, è difficile , ma bisogna essere forti.
Great interview!
thank you!