328 - Brandon Rhiness, Screenwriter And Filmmaker - Making Horror On A Budget, How To Get Paid Selling A Screenplay, and The Democratization Of Filmmaking
Mar 3, 2023
328 - Brandon Rhiness, Screenwriter And Filmmaker - Making Horror On A Budget, How To Get Paid Selling A Screenplay, and The Democratization Of Filmmaking
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In this episode of the MAKE IT Podcast, we have a conversation with Screenwriter and Filmmaker, Brandon Rhiness. We cover the following:
- How he sold his first screenplay
- His tips, tools, and methods for raising capital
- Why Hollywood coverage scores don’t help writers
- The best software, apps, and websites for screenwriters
- His new Horror film, ‘Grotesque’
- The democratization of filmmaking
- Importance of Key Art and Font Use in Indie Film Marketing
- What it takes to reach professional benchmarks of quality
And much more… Enjoy!
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Watch Grotesque:
Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/695937/grotesque
Amazon: us.amazon.com/Grotesque-Brandon-Rhiness/dp/B0B8NXZJSJ
Brandon Rhiness is a screenwriter and director from Edmonton, Canada. He also writes and publishes comic books and graphic novels through Higher Universe Comics, a company he co-founded. Brandon has written in various genres and mediums, including film, TV, reality, and web series. He is most known for the movies Hot Box and Grotesque, as well as the comic book Chainsaw Reindeer.
Upcoming projects: The feature-length horror movies Horrorshow, I'm Haunted 2, and Grotesque 2.