Just signed on to DirectProduce a 60 episode narrative vertical series! Great news!!

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

YES, I will use this strategy, in fact the gears are already turning... My 3 biggest roadblocks will be: 1] - streamlining an idea to fit into the Zero budget world, It's easy for me to let ideas become too big. 2] - It will be a challenge for em to write a script with minimal dialog, coming from a filmmaker world of scripted narrative, I will need to really let go to not have all the dialog on the page. 3] - overcoming the perfectionist voice in my head that wants to spend too much time lighting the scene, or rehearsing the camera moves, etc.

1] My biggest takeaway is that I already have everything I need to make a film, I just need to shake the excuses and get to work. 2] My biggest concern is going to be not spending too much time and energy trying to "Hollywood" the project. Coming from a professional filmmaker background, it will be tricky to shake the desire to have complex camera moves and intricate lighting set ups.

1] I have played the "Proof of Concept" Lottery. I must say it's been bitter/sweet. I made a 30 min short POC that I sent through the festival circuit racking up 55 wins and 19 nominations and appearing in over 93 festivals. We secured development money and wrote the feature version and currently have a group of EP's seeking funding to make the feature. BUT... it's dragging on and on and on... and I don't sit still well. 2] We raised the funds for the short and festival run, so while that didn't cost me any $, the project cost me lots of time. Time away from Work, time and energy away from personal projects. All in I spent the better part of 6 months editing, color correcting and doing VFX on the film. then I spent countless hours sending the film to festivals, getting files, and posters and DCP's in the right hands, building websites and social media sites and developing a presence for the film. 3] My biggest take away from the "Lie" video is a) I should bypass all that bs and jump into making a feature to have some real and tangible assets b) I love the Brit story and her quote about building your own Kingdom and stealing everything from the kingdom at the top of the hill. 4] My biggest concern is "unlearning" everything I know about production so that I can put together my own $1000 film. Coming from a Commercial and professional film background I will need to learn to loosen the structure to make this work. I'm excited to give it a go!