We Make Movies

I’ve had the opportunity to talk with some folks from an outfit called We Make Movies and I thought their organization was worth promoting. Here is some background:

We Make Movies, a 4,000-member film collective in Los Angeles, has just announced that it will reconvene weekly meetings and staged readings on July 9th in the heart of Hollywood. Starting today, the massive film collective will fill the Theatre Asylum for its first staged reading series since its film festival in the Fringe. The event begins at 7:30pm and is sponsored by Microsoft Surface, so it and refreshments are free to any who want to attend.

Founded in 2009, We Make Movies (WMM) is a free Los Angeles-based community of independent filmmakers, writers and actors dedicated to empowering creative professionals and providing the resources and connections that will help them get their movies made. WMM offers an arsenal of online tools and alternates free weekly writers workshops, improv nights, and industry guest interviews to help filmmakers get feedback on their work, try new ideas and create content.

The WMM community has directly funded 18 independent films and more than 80 shorts, 6 full length features, and three weekly ongoing webseries have been produced after being developed through their workshops. WMM also produces and distributes an industry podcast called “How We Make Movies”, sponsored by Microsoft that interviews leading filmmakers in the industry.

And there’s this:

We Make Movies has an animal mascot, a deformed footed rooster we call “el pingüino” (‘the penguin’) because of the way he wobbles when walking. We use the crippled rooster as a symbol and parable of the various disenfranchised people whom we champion. We hope to build a coalition: indigenous people, women, unionists, the young and jobless, actors, factory workers, writers and small farmers. (20 bucks to the first person who can figure out what wikipedia entry we stole that from) …. anyway, In addition to that, feel free to check out all this other stuff:

• Who we are and what we do …
• What we’re going to do …
• Declaration of Independence
• Want to be added to our list of filmmakers?
• Filmmaker FAQs
• Contact Us

You can also get their free Filmmaker’s Survival Guide by going here.

One of the best ways to learn the craft of screenwriting is by actually making movies. Check out We Make Movies at their website here and go make your movie!

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