Hello all, im not sure if any of you have heard of my film The Businessman but i posted a lot of things on it last year before it premiered at the Youngcuts film festival in Toronto and won for best foreign film. The film is now available to purchase on DVD directly from the website so just head on over to www.BusinessmanMovie.com and go to the DVD page. You can at the very least check out the special features on the disc and check out the promo trailer. The special features includes a 30 minute documentary good for any studnet filmmaker on how to make a no budget ambitious film. so head on over to www.BusinessmanMovie.com and place you order and feel free to send me an email with feedback, comments, constructive criticism, etc... Thanks!

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TheOneStudentFilmDirec

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why don't you spend your own money and post it on this site, just like everyone else. if u think your film is so good u should be dying to have people see it, and more ppl would have the chance to see it, so put it online and then ill watch it, unless you're so above other filmmakers that is. Steve Reedy's Undercut (nominated for some big ass MTV award too) is on sale for about 10 bucks too, but that didn't stop him from putting the film, trailer, and making of featurette online, id be more inclined to buy something from someone i know, have a certain amount of respect for, and puts together a high quality product. just a thought.

plus, if u wanna watch my feature you can, for free, cost me more money to put online than it did to make it (in tenfold), but at least people can see it, and i invite you to do the same.

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Hey there! I have posted several films on this website which are now down however i just felt this film isnt the type to post on here. Its 40 minutes in length and I put about 3000 dollars into the making of it. I felt a DVD treatment of it would be best since I put a year and half worth of time into it with my crew. I felt the best service for the film would be to make a full dvd for it including a behind the scenes on how we made it and everything else. Im sorry if i didnt feel posting it on here was the best venue for it but it certainly isnt because i feel the site is beneath me. If anything i want everyone to purchase it just to see what to do and what not to do when aproaching aambitious filmmaking with no budget and some freinds.

fair enough

How can I buy 5?

I agree with HDK. The site accepts films up to 45 minutes in length, and if you've spent $3k on it, what's another $40 to host it here and gain more exposure?

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If anything i want everyone to purchase it just to see what to do and what not to do when aproaching aambitious filmmaking with no budget and some freinds.

$3000 is hardly "no budget." People make films on here for less than the price of your special DVD.

If people see your film in its entirety and enjoy it enough, they will be more inclined to buy your DVD to see it in its full quality with all of your "bonus features." As it is, I don't think many people on this site can justify paying $12 for a movie that could be no better than something of their own.

I've spent a good thousand dollars on my own project, and I've doubted even selling the DVD's at all, in favor of just handing them out for free. At this level it's all about gaining exposure, and I'd hate to put twelve dollars between my movie and any potential contact or "higher-up."

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The site accepts films up to 45 minutes in length, and if you've spent $3k on it, what's another $40 to host it here and gain more exposure?

I dunno. I guess it is pretty easy for me to sit back and say that all films should be put up on this site seeing as that's the sole cost for me, and I don't care for makign any money back anyways myself, maybe if I spent 3 grand it would be different, I can't say for sure (ok, i can, but still, tough decision). Though it is too bad that there aren't more features on the set, I think the possibility is there for sure, especially since Chris expanded the size of the videos, I've founf it to be a huge improvement, just for those few extra pixels and its made a couple films alot better to watch, especially if you consider people who would watch something on their ipod. Although, about 3 years ago there was this guy on the site named Thomas Verrette, really hyped up by him and his friends cause he'd made some big all Vietnam film. He put up a trailer and a few scenes from it, and everyone was telling him to put it all up online so we could watch the 80 minute film. He had made it for like $500 and made back $450 through having screenings at his high school, but he never put the film up, and fast forward to today nobody on this site has really heard of him since, not to say he hasn't done anything, or that to be big means going through this site, but it sure hasn't hurt some people, just think how many votes Steve Reedy (most of which I heard were later deleted) he got for his MTV contest through us.

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Yeah i remember the vietnam film that was being hyped up here a while back and i think i understand where the filmmaker was coming from by not uploading to the site. I'm sure it varies from person to person however in my case i just cant sit through more then 15-20 minutes of a movie online in the small quicktime format and become fully immersed in the films world. It's hard to hold ack the temptation to answer IM's and ht pause and check some of your favorite website etc... I just feel that with the businessman this site isnt the optimal fit for it considering length. Why do i think its worth it to dish out 11 bucks on a completely unheard of student film? I think its a movie that can be enjoyed by many and the story is very dense and will require multiple viewings but more so its worth the purchase to go behind the scenes on how 4 students made an ambitious film in the most guerilla and cheap way and that made for a lot of funny stories in the behind the scenes documentary.

Guys, he has already said that he has paid for multiple films to be uploaded in the past. Do we really have to upload every film we make before we can talk about said film on these forums.