You’re Making a Movie? Who Cares?

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No really: Who cares? Who is going to care enough to come and see it? This is a question that a lot of emerging filmmakers assume will answer itself once the movie is made: that their story will be good for everyone and it will become a hit on … [Read more...]

A Full House: A Nice Problem To Have

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Every filmmaker, from the mightiest studio executive to the humblest of students with a camcorder all have one thing in common: to have a full audience when they premiere their film. The scale varies, of course: the student might be hoping to fill … [Read more...]

Film Shot In Elgin Returns For Premiere

From Left: Pete Garlock, Katy Sullivan, Gwydhar Gebien, and Ron Dean

Blue Damen Pictures To Share Newest Film "Recalculating" With Local Audience First CHICAGO, Feb 06, 2013 - Blue Damen Pictures will be premiering their newest film "Recalculating" at the Elgin Marcus Cinema on Saturday March 2nd, 2013 … [Read more...]

From Elgin To Hollywood: The Little Film That Could

This is where the magic will happen: Come and join us!

This time last year we were in the midst of furiously working to put the finishing touches on our first feature film "Dark Before Dawn" which we finally premiered in February. If you're a follower of this blog then you already know that "Dark Before … [Read more...]

Bad Filmmakers

If you're like the rest of us who can't resist to click on that link that inevitably leads to Celebrity Gossip you have probably stumbled across this article about Lindsay Lohan in the New York Times Magazine that details her adventures in producing … [Read more...]

The Power of Fart Jokes

The Upright Citizens' Brigade is a well known improv and sketch comedy group that exists in numerous cities in the US, so it shouldn't be any surprise that even on a Wednesday night the shows should be sold out. If you get there without a reservation … [Read more...]

Blue Damen Pictures in 2012: A Recap

As the Year-Of-The-Mayan-Apocalypse draws to a close it is a good time to look back on how far we have come and to start giving some thought to where 2013 will take us. Here is how our year went: We started 2012 off strong with a premiere of … [Read more...]

If You’re Not On The Internet Then You Don’t Exist

There's a State Farm ad on TV at the moment that runs something like this: Guy: Where did you hear that? Girl: On the internet. Guy: And you believed it. Girl: Yeah, They can't put anything on the internet if it isn't true. Guy: Where did you … [Read more...]

The American Film Market

A film market is not the same thing as a film festival. We should start there: a film festival is an event generally open to the public where filmmakers screen their films for audiences with the goal of getting their work reviewed. If the reviews are … [Read more...]

A Whiff of Death in Comedies

Greetings Dear Readers, As most of you know, Blue Damen recently released its full-length feature "Dark Before Dawn" and one of the many things I appreciated about it was that it lived up to its great title.  There was a scene towards the end of … [Read more...]