Learn the ins and outs of being an AD!
—Published on 3rd Mar, 2023.
Are you able to multitask and delegate? Are you an effective communicator and have a good sense of organization? Have a good understan...
We’re hiring a technical coordinator!
—Published on 1st Feb, 2023.
Come and join our dynamic team and be part of building the Trinidad and Tobago film industry. FILMCO is hiring a part-time technical coordin...
Building a Pitch Deck Weeknight Workshop with award-winning Director/Producer Lara Stolman
—Published on 9th May, 2022.
You’ve got your script and your synopsis; you have a sense of who is going to be on your production team, and, if you’re making a narrat...
Emmy Award-winning producer Carolyn Hepburn to lead FILMCO’s Film Budgeting Workshop
—Published on 11th Apr, 2022.
You have your script in hand, you have a creative vision for your film and you’re on your way to bringing your vision to life. What’s mi...
Weeknight Workshop: Visual Marketing 101
—Published on 1st Mar, 2022.
Let’s face it, when we’re choosing a movie to watch on Netflix, a bad poster or production image can be a major deterrent in a sea of be...
Titles, Loglines & Taglines + Writing an impactful short synopsis
—Published on 31st Jan, 2022.
Your film’s title, logline and tagline are often among the first things audiences will learn about your film, which is why getting them ri...
12 Questions with Israel Ramjohn
—Published on 10th Aug, 2021.
From a young age, Israel Ramjohn was given exposure to the arts by his mother who encouraged him to read, sew and explore other forms of exp...
Weeknight Workshop: How to Audition & Direct Actors (Learning from the Actor’s POV)
—Published on 4th Aug, 2021.
Are you a director interested in learning how to get the best performance out of your actors? Are you an actor interested in shaking off tha...
Weeknight Workshop: The Art of Location Management
—Published on 9th Jul, 2021.
You’ve embarked on your next project; your location scout has wrapped. But given the size of your film’s budget, you tell your t...
Weeknight Workshop: Assistant Directing 101
—Published on 3rd Jun, 2021.
The assistant director- the AD- is one of the most critical crew positions on a production. If you’ve ever been on a set or have eagerly w...
Weeknight Workshop: Crafting The Commercial
—Published on 6th May, 2021.
The commercial world: an unfamiliar universe for many emerging filmmakers. But here in Trinidad & Tobago as elsewhere in the Caribbean,...
“Hannibal” and Marvel’s “The Punisher” writer leads FILMCO TV writing workshop
—Published on 7th Apr, 2021.
Writing for television? Well that’s just like writing for film once you know three-act structure… Oh let us stop you right there friend....
Weeknight Workshop: Line Producing 101
—Published on 4th Mar, 2021.
Producer. Executive producer. Co-producer. Associate producer. The list of producers on a project can go on and on. But what about line prod...
Weeknight Workshop: Makeup for Film
—Published on 3rd Feb, 2021.
Makeup in film. Done well, it is one of the most important filmmaking elements that transports an audience into your story. It is an art don...
Learn the fundamentals of production design
—Published on 24th Nov, 2020.
Our next offering in our FILMCO Weeknight Workshop series is an exciting, two-part introductory course on the craft of production design., p...
WW: Beginner’s Guide to Video Editing
—Published on 13th Oct, 2020.
UPDATE: REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED Video editing: the process through which one takes all the various pieces of video and audio that have been...
FILMCO Info Session: Understanding IP
—Published on 14th Aug, 2020.
IP– two letters whose significance should never be underestimated by creators for their work.Intellectual Property, or IP as we’...
WW: Making The Documentary
—Published on 29th Jul, 2020.
“In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deepe...
WW: Storytelling in the Edit Suite
—Published on 14th Jul, 2020.
FILMCO is pleased to present another multi-session workshop as part of our Weeknight Workshop series. Join us online for an intensive 3-part...
Financing your Project: From Script to Screen with Kareem Mortimer
—Published on 27th May, 2020.
Now that you have your script and your project is ready to go, what’s the next logical step? Finding the capital to produce your work,...
BUILD YOUR FILM’s WEBSITE for NEXT-TO-NOTHING!
—Published on 21st May, 2020.
A TWO-PART COURSE ON USING WORDPRESS, BOOK ONLINE NOW! Websites have become an essential tool in a film’s promotional kit. Websites br...
Acting On-Camera and Self-Taping with Paul Pryce
—Published on 23rd Apr, 2020.
This three-part acting workshop will explore the fundamentals of acting on camera, and finding imaginative and creative expression in the mo...
Crowdfunding 101/ Weeknight Workshop
—Published on 1st Apr, 2020.
LEARN THE ART OF SUCCESSFUL CROWDFUNDING FOR YOUR FILM OR TELEVISION PROJECT A TWO-PART COURSE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE! Fundraising for a film...
WW: Creating Story Arcs for TV
—Published on 7th Jan, 2020.
Story arcs are the overall shape of rising and falling action, tension or emotion within a story, created via plot and character development...
