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

I will use this strategy. My 3 biggest roadblocks: a) Me. I get in my own way. Getting the story script in a good place. b) Convincing my DOP spouse who has all the gear but not necessarily the positive mindset. c) Casting. I do have actor friends and fam but prob have to reverse engineer idea for them.

My biggest takeaway is so many amazing film makers actually did start off with a hidden super low budget. I actually thought Christopher Nolan's first film was Mememnto. I was sitting in a screenwriter workshop years ago and the dude said your first film has to be as good as Memento! (Or Reservoir Dogs or Clerks) A bit daunting. My biggest concern/challenge is our age now (50s, you just get tired) and we left our feature film ambitions die through inaction (and life's other challenges). I still have creative dreams, I wrote two episodes for a sitcom that aired on Paramount + and Australian Network TV during the pandemic and years ago did feature documentary and an award-winning web based comedy; my husband works in corporate and has a sci fi based YouTube channel but I always thought we'd make a feature and can't understand why we never did, like it was too hard when it takes just as much work to make our shorts. Maybe it was too psychologically daunting and we've never been good at knocking on doors hat in hand.

What’s one “Lottery System” you’ve tried? - Proof of concept! I've made pilots and even got $150k funding to make a 13 min POC for a sci fi movie - and it never got further than that. It cost us YEARS because my husband who is a dop never got over not having it happen and after so many projects failing to launch (I wrote a few scripts after this) you get demoralised. Biggest takeaway - it's a very good video with advice I kinda already knew but it crystalized my own lessons in a thought provoking way. Proof of voice, not proof of concept. Create your own routes in, which has been our preferred MO anyway. I regret should have hustled more and got the low budget feature done ages ago.

Welcome to One Grand Filmmakers 👋 🎉 In this community, I'll show you how I turned a $1,000 feature film into 3 more features, a full-time career in filmmaking, and relationships with the biggest names and platforms in the industry. But first... Please, introduce yourself :) (EXTRA CREDIT: Like 5 other posts, and welcome other filmmakers to the community as well!) Let's goooooo! 🚀