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Caleb Daniel vents his feelings

By DTL
Posted April 30, 2026

CD sends DTL a Facebook “Friends” request for the stated purpose of “talk[ing] shit to you” over something or other. Apparently he was triggered by a comment DTL made, but he doesn’t say what he’s so angry about.

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BC Buds

Written and directed by Rudy Lenz. With Marito Lopez, Julian Nelson, and Keilani Rose. Comedy / thriller, 2024, 23:00, colour.

Official website   •   IMDb   •   Watch on YouTube

Reviewed by TLB
Posted April 9, 2026

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Paramount buying Warner Bros. means bad news — literally

By JN
Posted March 19, 2026

Hollywood creators have been rending their garments over the sale of major Hollywood studio Warner Bros. to either streaming service Netflix or content-producer and -financer Paramount SkyDance. Now we learn that Paramount has won the purchase. This is irrelevant to Minor Moguls, who are independent creators and businesses, but bad news for USAnia and for civilization in general.

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You are not a distributor

By DTL and MAT
Posted February 26, 2026

Finding distribution for an independent movie can be so difficult that many creators seek to bypass what they think of as gatekeepers. Some of these creators try to become distributors themselves.

Sometimes these individuals manage to combine stupidity, ignorance, wishful thinking, entitlement, and self-righteousness into a toxic stew that, while doing them no good, can serve as object lessons to the rest of us of what not to do.

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Crafty Short Films

By DTL
Posted December 25, 2025

Crafty “presents snack-sized stories, both narrative and nonfiction, with an emphasis on heart and humanity. We host these stories on our YouTube Channel.”

One thing I don’t see any mention of is payment. So they’re going to take your movie and put it on their Channel, and monetize that Channel, and keep all the money from that Channel. You are giving them your work so they can make money from it.

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Unhelpful advice for creators

By DTL
Posted November 13, 2025

The first step any intelligent individual takes when seeking to enter a new field is to research the field they’re trying to enter. The World Wide Web is a handy tool for this (or it used to be, before it was enshittified). Unfortunately, the newbie movie-maker soon discovers that all the allegedly-helpful advice on the Web starts several steps too far along already.

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Roger Deakins’s website

By DTL
Posted October 23, 2025

Roger Deakins is “Often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential cinematographers in the history of cinema,” (says Wikipedia). He was Cinematographer on such movies as 1917, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and The Shawshank Redemption.

At his eponymous website he operates a free-membership forum that is a master-class in all aspects of telling a story with moving images.

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