@allygator18 "he will never start or begin; most people are afraid to take action." If bitterness and hating was a person. You don't know me. Technically me asking for advice is me taking action bud. Every thing even speaking words is taking action. Your perspective makes me believe that is how YOU operate and now you just want to project that negative mentality onto others. Good luck

@Jackaloftheazuresand You know what? Here's what I'll do. I won't throw it in your face. I'll do one better. I'll copy and paste this exact post, tell them that a viewer (you) sent me, and send it as an email.

@GhangisKhan Very well I accept that

@Jackaloftheazuresand Yeah man! No matter how I choose to pursue this, it's a difficult one. Whether I go the chasing the holly wood dream route, or trying to produce my own content. The acting business is one tough son of a gun, that much I do know. In the end, whether I make it or not, I just want to be able to say I was part of some cool shit. I see some of these epic short films and see the production team behind it and have always asked myself "how in the world did they start this beautiful journey?". The main problem is I don't know anybody to start this with and that much I already know without having emailed anyone. Perhaps I should join an acting class again and try to network that way, although most people join acting classes to learn acting not to start up a film production company

@MarkPaul I already have that. I even have scripts ready to go. I just need to find people who are interested. Coming up with the idea is the easy part. That's the "fun" part. The hard part is finding people as well as the promotional aspect and getting it out there. That's where I'm lost. I also wouldn't want to put all this effort into producing my own stuff just for it to get 10 views online. I have no following which makes it even harder. I don't understand how these youtubers get hundreds thousandths of views. I want to make sure the effort and investment I put in has some kind of return, even if it's not monetary right away.

@GhangisKhan Well, do you have equipment? Can you explain your idea in less than 2 seconds? If you have equipment and can shoot a trailer, then you can send it, unsolicited, to studios or get it on youtube. If you can't but have a quick and effective way to get your point across, then you just need to get in front of movie distributors to sell them on your idea.

@MarkPaul Most if not all studios don't accept unsolicited material. Well I have some scripts of like spin off to existing video games and movies, like remakes. I have some original ideas as well. I have shot a trailer before all by myself but again what I'm trying to do probably needs a team but that's a whole other challenge in it of itself. I was thinking of trying to get back into acting classes to try and network with people but than again most of them are trying to become actors the old fashion way and probably have zero intention of starting a production company with someone they barely know. It's a huge commitment. Yeah that's the issue, to get in front of a movie distributor you need connections from the inside. I did find out you could submit your own film or even short film to certain platforms like Appletv which is kind of like netflix , same with amazon but if it just sits there with no promotional machine behind it, doubt it does anything. Equipment I had to sell and return a lot of them because I had quit but it's nothing to get it back. These days getting high quality cameras for decent price is easy. Quality is not the problem, it's getting the people necessary to make this happen. This isn't just something you can up and just do on your own with a camera. It's definitely a team effort. Check them out https://www.youtube.com/@AxiA. This is a prime example of what I want to do.

@GhangisKhan If you want to have success in the biz, it helps to be where it's happening. And if you know the biz, you know that many successful directors began as cinematographers--Barry Levinson for example. To know how the whole thing works can certainly be of value and certainly increases your chances of getting work.

@uncalled4 Again it seems like you don't even know the difference to these fields. I'm not trying to be a director either. I'm trying to be an actor/producer. Each field is unique to their own and deserves it's individual respect. You can't just do all of these things at once on a whim. I do however agree that even trying to do it on your own, it's better to be surrounded in an area where a particular field is dominant because you can still network with other folks who want to do it my way as well. I guess moving to another state in my current situation is another challenge in it of itself. So there's that

@AnommonA86 Yeah let me just call him up on my phone real quick...smh

@pancakeslam I never said I wanted to make it in holly wood. Quite the opposite actually. I don't understand how people are not comprehending this. I guess my post didn't make it clear enough that I wanted to produce my own stuff. Your reasoning is actually part of the reason I didn't want to go the holly wood route. It's filled with a bunch of weird egomaniacs who get off on power trips and most mainstream movies today are garbage. I just wanted advice on how to get my own stuff started. It is what it is. I guess I can't expect a site like this to be an expert on this kind of thing.