Practical advice and free resources

Whether you’re looking for inspiration, an answer to an issue or looking to learn how to tackle a step in filmmaking, you’ll find free resources here to help you along your path.

All the information below has been researched and developed by Fernanda Rossi through witnessing the process of the filmmakers she has collaborated, as well as with her personal exchanges with major decision makers in the documentary world.

For your convenience you can read online or download a pdf. Please cite the source and link to this page when quoting, forwarding, or paraphrasing.

Note: Once I was told that including numbers in a title attracted more readers. Soothing as it is to know there is a definite way to solve an issue, I think ultimately it limits possibilities. Therefore I’m using numbers but in my own way.

• 10 Tips –and a half- for Great Fundraising Samples by Fernanda Rossi
originally appeared in Shaking the Money Tree, by Morrie Warshawski, Third Edition 2009

• 22.5 questions on trailers and rough cuts
originally appeared on Shooting People, July 2007 and 2009

• N number of dilemmas of Story Structure
originally appeared on The D-Word, June 2009

• 10 x 3 concerns on Fundraising Demos
originally appeared on The D-Word, September 2009