• Worst Decisions Ever Made by Film Studios

    What does this list of films have in common? Raiders of the Lost Ark The Blind Side Pulp Fiction Ted Back to the Future American Graffiti Being John Malkovich Star Wars T the Extra-terrestrial Raiders of the Lost Ark […]

    Jun 16, 2016
    Bob Peryea
  • 9 Great Film Festivals Outside the USA

    For much of the world, instead of awards shows, it’s film festivals that bring out the stars and great new films. This is short list of film festivals around the world that are worth going to: Bahamas International Film […]

    Jun 9, 2016
    Bob Peryea
  • Environmental Film Festivals – A List for the Planet

    Environmental films didn’t really exist until about the 1970’s. For the most part there were few film-makers seriously looking at the earth and our place in it until the late 1960’s. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) became the first […]

    Jun 2, 2016
    Bob Peryea
  • CGI – Is it really worth It?

    CGI:  three letters that are as divisive as any in moviemaking, particularly among the rising stars and purists. Computer Generated Imagery have become the fallback of seemingly every movie made in the last 15 years. Is CGI really worth […]

    May 25, 2016
    Bob Peryea
  • Best 5 Short Documentary Film Festivals

    The creators of short films are a special breed. There is a perception that making a short film, particularly one under 10 minutes, is easier than making a full-length movie. Anyone who has tried to write a poem versus […]

    May 16, 2016
    Bob Peryea
  • Crowdfunding for Films: A Few Success Stories

    Crowdfunding is all the rage for filmmakers. They will put up their films for crowdfunding and hope that the money will roll in. It might, but there are some tricks that have worked for some films that producers and […]

    May 9, 2016
    Bob Peryea