Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
Casting for Indie-Filmmaking
A course by Iliès Terki , Film Director
About the video: Casting for Indie-Filmmaking
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll explain how I apply a bottom-up approach to casting, which is similar to documentary filmmaking. I'll also talk about the difference between professional and non-professional actors and how to work with them. ”
In this video lesson Iliès Terki addresses the topic: Casting for Indie-Filmmaking, which is part of the Domestika online course: Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film. Learn how to write, shoot, and post-produce a meaningful short film using minimum resources.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Casting for Indie-Filmmaking The whole point of filmmaking, or fiction at least, is drama. Drama comes out of performances and actors. Actors are probably the most valuable asset. You have to be hugely involved in building a relationship with your talent. For indie filmmaking, this is a little tricky because getting access to talent or professional actors might be expensive or out of your reach. I usually like to work with non-professional actors because I apply this bottom-up approach. I use anything at hand. It happened to me that I worked with people I met randomly on the street or in ...”
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Course summary for: Lean Filmmaking: Turn Your Vision into a Short Film
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Iliès Terki
A course by Iliès Terki
Iliès Terki is an Algerian-born film director based in Hamburg, and the founder of his own creative studio, which specializes in short-form fiction. He started his career as a cover designer in the music industry before going on to study communications and visual arts in Madrid and Paris. He later studied art direction in Hamburg and New York, and went on to work in an advertising agency, where he was introduced to high-end filmmaking and realized it was what he wanted to pursue. Iliès began experimenting with filmmaking in his spare time and, in 2015, quit his job to launch his career in the art form.
Since then, Iliès has established his own studio, Idle Films, which has produced a series of 52 fiction stories and small vignettes. He has also worked with brands including adidas, BMW, Renault, Netflix Germany, UNICEF, Penguin Random House, and Haribo.
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