10 top tips on how to make your own movie

Former Director of South Seas Film School, producer, director and self-confessed movie nut, Adam Fresco offers a hands-on guide to finding your inner Kubrick.
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Interviewed in 1969, director Stanley Kubrick was asked: ‘If you were 19 and starting out again, would you go to film school?’

Now? Every would-be Dame Jane Campion, Sir Peter Jackson, Niki Caro, Toa Fraser or Taika Waititi carries an entire film crew in their pocket. Pretty much all smartphones come with a built-in camera and microphone as standard, along with enough available apps to create, edit, colour, tweak and tinker with your film until you’re ready to release, promote and distribute online – free.

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