Minor Mogul
Making movies independently
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Please note that this website is currently under construction. If, for some reason, you’re visiting the site in this pre-launch state and have any comment, criticism, suggestion, or dead-link report to make, please contact Minor Mogul via GMail at MinorMogul@GMail.com (other contact methods may not be set up yet). Thank you.
If you’re like me (and who wouldn’t want to be like me?), you want to make movies, but aren’t really interested in working in Hollywood. We Minor Moguls would rather remain small and independent, even if we never become rich and famous. We just wanna make movies!
Latest items
Paramount buying Warner Bros. means bad news — literally
By JN
Posted March 19, 2026
Hollywood creators have been rending their garments over the sale of major Hollywood studio Warner Bros. to either streaming service Netflix or content-producer and -financer Paramount SkyDance. Now we learn that Paramount has won the purchase. This is irrelevant to Minor Moguls, who are independent creators and businesses, but bad news for USAnia and for civilization in general.
You are not a distributor
By DTL and MAT
Posted February 26, 2026
Finding distribution for an independent movie can be so difficult that many creators seek to bypass what they think of as gatekeepers. Some of these creators try to become distributors themselves.
Sometimes these individuals manage to combine stupidity, ignorance, wishful thinking, entitlement, and self-righteousness into a toxic stew that, while doing them no good, can serve as object lesson to the rest of us of what not to do.
Crafty Short Films
By DTL
Posted December 25, 2025
Crafty “presents snack-sized stories, both narrative and nonfiction, with an emphasis on heart and humanity. We host these stories on our YouTube Channel.”
One thing I don’t see any mention of is payment. So they’re going to take your movie and put it on their Channel, and monetize that Channel, and keep all the money from that Channel. You are giving them your work so they can make money from it.
Roger Deakins’s website
By DTL
Posted October 23, 2025
Roger Deakins is “Often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential cinematographers in the history of cinema,” (says Wikipedia). He was Cinematographer on such movies as 1917, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and The Shawshank Redemption.
At his eponymous website he operates a free-membership forum that is a master-class in all aspects of telling a story with moving images.
Latest links
- Distribution: DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media by Cerys Davies
- Criticism: Pre-Oscar marathon: Top 15 movies about the movies
- Criticism: The 50 greatest films directed by Canadians, presented by CBC Arts
- TV: From Stranger Things to Killing Eve: Why TV shows should only be one season long by Amelia Tait
- Writing: The Only Screenplay Beat Sheet You’ll Ever Need by Jason Hellerman
- Funding: Is your film fundable? by Elliot Grove
Latest items
- TLB reviews BC Buds (2024), a short comedy / thriller movie.
Favourite items
- “Don’t make these movies!” by MAT presents a list of movies that have already been made eleventy-squillion times, so you don’t need to make them again.
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