Watch this video for details...

Assignment #1: "Will I use this strategy?" Most definitely YES, to the best of my abilities! Assignment #2: "What are my 3 biggest roadblocks?" Well, these may be my roadblocks but I will find a work around but here they are: 1) coming up with a simple small story 2) finding crew to work for free 3) 3) getting the resulting film into the MAJOR film festivals where actual industry people will be to network with.

The Investorless Feature Film Course is Live Inside the Community Alright, filmmakers — this is the big one. The full Investorless Feature Film course (aka The Indie Film Flywheel) is now live in the Classroom tab. If you’ve been serious about making your first feature — without waiting for permission, investors, or “someday” — this is the step-by-step roadmap you’ve been looking for. Why you should take it (right now): 🎯 Clarity: Learn the only replicable career strategy that works for actors, writers, and directors — making a small, personal feature with the resources you already have. 🔥 Speed: Cut years of trial-and-error and get from idea → finished film faster than you thought possible. 📈 Momentum: Build a career flywheel where every film fuels the next — bigger audience, better collaborators, and more opportunities each time. 🚫 No Fundraising Required: Avoid the endless investor hunt. This approach is designed to keep you creating now, not waiting. 🤝 Collaboration: Learn how to attract the right collaborators without begging or chasing — and why the right people will want to work with you. 💡 Proven Examples: See how filmmakers like Greta Gerwig, Christopher Nolan, Robert Rodriguez, and Sean Baker used this exact principle to break into the industry. Plus, there’s a $500 reward if you finish in 5 days. This isn’t just a gimmick. I want to keep this community lean and full of action-takers. If you finish on time, you’ll unlock a filmmaking tool I’ve only shared with my private clients. This course is $1, but will be sold online for $47. Just to find filmmakers that are serious. 👉 Go to the Classroom tab now and click “Investorless Feature Film” to begin. Let’s get that first film in the can. – AJ Rome

1. Biggest takeaway from video 3 -- Trying to make your seminal movie on the first go - is not only unwise, it's career suicide and arrogant. You have to crawl before you walk. Don't try to be the next anybody - find and express your own creative voice. Be an opportunity creator. Work with the resources I have now - and believe me, I have everything I need, except lighting perhaps. To focus on making art that I want to make and would want to see -- let the rest go -- design the doors I want to open with these films instead of making random projects that may mean nothing to me and hoping doors will open to get me where I want to be, so I can make what I want. 2. I said this before, but the no experience bothers me -- I made a very small student short in the first filmmaking class I took this past spring. I wrote it in about an hour - and immediately had a shot list in my head -- I loved writing and directing, and the end product wasn't half bad. What I am extremely intimidated by is editing - I really don't like the process, I struggle with the tech part of it, the keys on the board, even the visual setup on the computer screen - my brain just doesn't get it -- at all. And it makes me not want to make anything because the second I try to load raw footage in to Adobe or FCP - I am lost. I also don't care a ton about lenses, and the camera stuff. My strengths are the creative writing, directioning (acting) - the emotional soul of the scene, character, story. I love character driven stories, focused on human suffering, relationships, the moral compass of a person, love, death, moral courage, bravery, overcoming trauma.

Assignment #1. My biggest take away is to use non-actors who behave like themselves. Assignment # 2. My biggest challenge is getting clean, good, movie quality sound with the equipment I have access to obtain easily.