Bri Castellini

Bri Castellini is a screenwriter, director, adjunct professor, and, like any good millennial, a podcaster. She’s known for the short film Ace and Anxious and the podcast Breaking Out of Breaking In.

Stop Being Defensive About Feedback

Stop Being Defensive About Feedback

It's more valuable that you know how people answer their own questions without your input, since you won't always be in the room when audiences experience your work.

# Read # Style & Substance # The Business of Art
5 min read

Designing the Perfect Writer's Group

Designing the Perfect Writer's Group

Both from my pent up decade of jealousy and my own recent increase in writer’s group activity, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about all the variables in creating your ideal creative collective.

# Read # The Creative Mind
7 min read

How to Tell Your Loved Ones You Wrote About Them

How to Tell Your Loved Ones You Wrote About Them

You’re telling a fictionalized version of true events, and now comes the awkward part: how to tell the people who may recognize themselves in it.

# Read # The Creative Mind
3 min read

The iPhone Movie Myth

The iPhone Movie Myth

If the film industry was a meritocracy based solely on effort, or finding a way to make something great with limited budgets, Hollywood would look very, very different. But it doesn’t.

# Read # Independent
5 min read

When is It OK to Work for Free?

When is It OK to Work for Free?

But you need to be careful, set clear boundaries, and have an ironclad goal in mind for when to turn the tap off and send a bill.

# Read # The Business of Art
4 min read

Supplemental Content Ideas So Marketing Your Film is Less Boring

Supplemental Content Ideas So Marketing Your Film is Less Boring

As indie creators, we have neither the past notoriety, the platform, or the money to rely on classic marketing styles, so we have to get more creative.

# Read # The Business of Art # Independent
5 min read

How to Develop and Maintain a Positive Creative Partnership

How to Develop and Maintain a Positive Creative Partnership

If you cannot effectively or efficiently communicate, every part of the creative process will take twice as long and be ten times as frustrating as it needs to.

# Read # The Business of Art # The Creative Mind
5 min read

How to Engage More Critically With Work We Love From Faves That are Problematic

How to Engage More Critically With Work We Love From Faves That are Problematic

More than one thing can be true at once: you can deeply love and appreciate a piece of art, and deeply disagree with its creator or its impact.

# Read # The District
3 min read

How My 'Burn Notice' Podcast Made Me a Better TV Writer

How My 'Burn Notice' Podcast Made Me a Better TV Writer

When you take detailed notes on how episodes unfold, you notice the reason you like certain episodes more than others is that things don’t just happen for the sake of things happening.

# Read # Style & Substance
7 min read

How to Cut a Really Great Reel Every Time

How to Cut a Really Great Reel Every Time

Remember that your reel isn’t the full conversation—it’s the start of one.

# Read # Independent
4 min read

Writing a Professional Bio So People Care to Read Your Work

Writing a Professional Bio So People Care to Read Your Work

Nailing your professional bio, and understanding that a single bio cannot rule them all, is an invaluable skill for every aspiring writer, filmmaker, director, and beyond.

# Read # The Business of Art
5 min read

How I Hacked the YouTube Algorithm for 150k+ Views

How I Hacked the YouTube Algorithm for 150k+ Views

Despite myself being an anxious asexual woman, I wasn’t a known entity in either of my other two segment communities yet. So, I started to do research.

# Read # Independent
6 min read

Film Festival Advice (From a Recovering Wasteful Submitter)

Film Festival Advice (From a Recovering Wasteful Submitter)

Do I have key art chock-full of laurels? Sure. Do any of those laurels actually mean anything to anyone? Um … let’s move on.

# Read # Independent
5 min read

Online "Networking" Doesn't Have To Suck

Online "Networking" Doesn't Have To Suck

With every industry starting to realize how meaningless geography is in determining talent, perhaps they’ll be useful even beyond the pandemic.

# Read # The Business of Art
3 min read

Should You Go to Film School? I Did.

Should You Go to Film School? I Did.

The decision to go to school for something isn’t as straightforward as “do you want a job?” anymore.

# Read # Breaking In
5 min read
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