There is power in micro-budget filmmaking, and if anyone tells you otherwise there might be something they are battling with themselves.

Over the past number of years, I have grown incredibly passionate about micro-budget filmmaking. I think that with the technology that is available today and some creative brainstorming it is by no means a stretch to think you can make a movie with little to no money. That excites me like nothing else.

My past two features I almost think may not qualify me as a micro-budget filmmaker, but the perspective may change from person to person. My first feature film, Bounty, cost roughly $100k to make, the second feature  I directed, Turn Around Jake, came in below that. Originally I would classify my films based on the SAG-signatory status and, it has changed since then, movies under $200k were called “ultra-low budget.”. For most filmmakers that did not feel like an ultra-low budget.

With all that being said, I feel the micro-budget movie is something that can stretch creativity and with a few basic skills you can make it feel like a much bigger movie for a lot less than what the price of film to shoot your movie on used to be.

As budgets for movies increase as well as money made from single movies feel at an all-time high knowing that there is a place for micro-budget content should be equally exciting. Now anyone can go out and make a movie, sometimes on a day, or a week or over weekends for a year.

It is a new world for cinema and a time for all interested to be able to take part in it. The next step is just doing it.