Are Passion Projects A Waste? 6 Filmmakers’ Perspectives

A recurring topic in our conversations with independent filmmakers is how personal/passion projects have either launched, sustained, or saved their…

To Film School or Not to Film School: 8 Filmmakers’ Perspectives

Learning a craft is never easy, and there aren’t any shortcuts. As we’ve talked with filmmakers over the past few…

6 Prompts to Launch Your Next Short Film

When things are going well, film ideas lead one to the next. You’re working on one project, and something sparks…

Why We Made a Feature-Length Documentary

A good litmus test for ideas around Musicbed is not related to the ‘what’ of the matter, but more to…

Good Life, Great Art: Thoughts on Mentorship

There’s a new year upon us, and lately we’ve been thinking about mentorship. Thinking about people who have mentored us,…

Pretty Much Everything We Know About Interviewing

Since launching the Musicbed Community, we have interviewed dozens and dozens of filmmakers and artists from all around the world.…

Eliot Rausch: “Quick and Easy Answers Bother Me Now.”

Eliot Rausch likes parables and has a habit of turning them into beautiful and thought-provoking, albeit highly ambiguous, short films.…

9 Filmmakers on What They Got Right and Wrong

We’ve spent more than four years of talking with some of the best filmmakers in the world, and there are…

How to Fail: 6 Perspectives

Failure is always fine in retrospect. It’s when you’re in the middle of it that things can get dark. You…

On Managing Priorities in Your Film Career

Our recent conversation with Philip Bloom got us thinking: How do other artists find balance in their lives? We scoured…