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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Strategist | Storyteller | creator of @_microbudgetpod 📽🎬🎞💡

Chicago, IL

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Joined March 2015

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@Zanah__

Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

1 year

I’m a strategist and a storyteller. I fell in love with filmmaking because it was how I responded to uncomfortable, heartbreaking, and maddening human truths and experiences. Nearly all of my films are impact driven and paint a picture of a world I wish existed. A THREAD!

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Some men I dated weren’t for romance purposes. They were script material. Research, if you will.

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Black Women filmmakers don’t need anymore mentors. Fund their projects.

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@KaiorDiie Italics. And I still love it.

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Anytime a Black filmmaker (ESPECIALLY a Black woman filmmaker) asks me a question about my process, I try to be as detailed and helpful as possible. I just don’t understand gatekeeping. “Work hard” and “believe in yourself” IS NOT ADVICE. FILMMAKERS NEED REAL ADVICE.

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I want more Black Women to be stingy with grace and understanding when it comes to people that hurt us. Not everyone deserves it. We’re programmed to respond to disrespect, manipulation, and toxicity with understanding. No.

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I want more Black Women to learn very early that you can decide that something you once dreamed of is no longer enough for you. Your desires can change. Your needs can change. The career. The relationships. The goals. The interests. The hobbies. All of it.

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I really can’t wait to see what indie filmmakers create during this time. Without Hollywood. Without superstars. Without capital. But WITH full creative control and WITH community.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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@onlyonenuni Admit you’re wrong, smile, and revel in watching him be incredibly uncomfortable because he won’t expect it. If you grin, do it slowly. don’t break eye contact. He’s not gon know wtf to do.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Indie filmmakers, I beg you, focus on your independent films. Regardless of how big or small. Hollywood will trick you into believing that having studios and corporations behind your work is the pinnacle of success. It is not. Having full autonomy over what you create is.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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I wish film schools taught students that they can live anywhere and be a filmmaker. Travel for productions, travel for film festivals, but live where it’s affordable. We don’t talk enough about how to merge practicality with being a filmmaker. At all.

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2 years

Black indie filmmakers...keep going.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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I’m 167% for women choosing themselves over a relationship if that’s what they want, but this Abbott Elementary finale PISSED ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I’ve been working in commercial advertising for 7 years. Marketing can be grueling, tedious, and stressful industry. But every so often, I watch a commercial that takes my breath away, reminds me of the power of a great strategy, and why I love my job. This is one of them.

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Oh the new powerade ad is so good 😭

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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SZA and Jhene Aiko have mastered the ability to hypnotically sing the most out of pocket lyrics all while making you feel like you’re dancing through a field of sunflowers. Unhinged. I love it.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Black Indie filmmakers, please keep going. Focus on community. Ask your friends to make films with you. Start small. Write what you can shoot. Collaborate. Keep telling your stories. Keep writing your stories. Keep capturing your stories. Please.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Film + entertainment magazines need to spend Black History Month highlighting indie Black filmmakers. The underdogs. The ones without overall deals. We keep circulating the same creatives. Branch out.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Look at all of these gorgeous Black Women filmmakers yall 😭💜✨

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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@theogcrystal Girl, same.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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HEY STRATEGISTS! (Brand, Creative, and Social) Here’s a thread that’s basically a gold mine of strategy resources 🧵🧵🧵 PS- I found all of these during my career pivot preparation from producing to strategy, and I don’t believe in gatekeeping ✨🫶🏽

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

11 months

Now that I’m no longer a commercial producer under any NDAs I can say this. Black Influencers…..When brands ask for your rates, go sky fucking high. Seeing the variance in rates from Black talent vs non Black talent broke my heart.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

8 months

My feature film officially has an Emmy winning executive producer. We’re making this movie y’all. It’s really happening. Wow.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Ava. Quinta. Issa. Keke. My goodness. Being able to witness Black Women who are multi hyphenates (Producers, Writers, Actresses, Directors) who are ALSO paving the way for more BW in the industry?? What a time to be a Black Woman Filmmaker 😩❤️

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

The film industry loves uplifting traumatic Black stories. I want more Black filmmakers to make “just for fun” films without feeling like they have to be a champion for social change. Give Black filmmakers a chance to just create.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

I want more filmmakers to learn to market & distribute their work to platforms & networks on their own. I want film schools & film festivals to have more programming and curriculums around understanding contracts and licensing. There’s too much knowledge hoarding in this biz.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

Indie filmmakers, keep going. Keep telling your stories.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

9 months

Last summer, I stepped away from filmmaking to focus on writing. After a number of shorts and docs, I decided to write a feature film script. I wrote every day before work between 5am-8am. The first draft was 203 pages. Today, I’ve locked the final script at 130 pages.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Filmmakers, keep going. I promise you it’s worth it.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

This is yet another reason why the orgasm gap exists, and why statistically speaking, cishet women are experiencing the least orgasms with partners. Nothing about this is reciprocal. It’s also why Christian women have high rates of sexual pain disorders. I’m exhausted.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

1 year

I’m sitting in a @sxsw panel of film financiers and they are all talking about how having completed short films is the best proof of concept for pitching features. Idk when all the recent short film slander started but y’all better pay attention. MAKE THE SHORT.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Write your scripts today, y’all!

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

I’m not an “emerging” director. I’ve emerged. I been directing. Good day.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

I need indie film magazines to do cover stories on Black Indie Filmmakers. New ones. The “undiscovered” ones. Not the same 6 y’all keep circulating. Branch out.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Indie filmmakers, learn marketing and distribution. Study audiences, press runs, and how film marketers get their films out into the world. Be strategic (and open minded) about the different ways you can get your film seen by audiences. There are SO MANY ways.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

I want there to be less “how to get an agent” “how to sell a script” “how to break into Hollywood” talks and more “here’s how to make a fucking film” talks. We groom filmmakers to rely on capitalistic entities for success and that’s part of the problem.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

Black filmmakers having access to the gear, post production resources, and film festival submission fees waived/financed will level the playing field IMMENSELY. We’ve been collaborating. We have teams/homies. All we need are the technical resources.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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On my way to a celebratory dinner with my executive producer and producer to toast to my feature film. I cannot believe we’re about to start preproduction. PINCH ME!!!!!!

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

Alright so here’s a thread about how I wrote/produced/directed a short film about a Black Feminist couple planning a patriarchy free commitment ceremony in a pandemic for $5600. It’s a comedy called “The Love You Want Exists”

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Finished all of the insurance paperwork for my production and all gear is booked so now it REALLY is hitting me that IM MAKING ANOTHER FILM NEXT WEEK OMFG 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Lots of Airbnb hosts are chill with filmmakers renting their spaces for production as long as you have production insurance. Damn near my entire film portfolio is filmed in Airbnb’s

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

Indie filmmakers PLEASE protect your work. Do not send just anyone your scripts, pitch decks, production decks, or rough cuts. you never know where the materials will be sent once it leaves your hands. Be VERY selective. People will steal your work.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Documentary filmmakers, please tap into the educational market. 30-60 minute educational documentaries for classroom use are a actually a really great way to bring in some revenue as a filmmaker. There are SEVERAL University library film distributors too. (Just Google lol)

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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I cannot believe I’m in post production for a feature film that was done for $20K in 6 days and it looks INCREDIBLE. Holy shit. Ignore everything Hollywood tells you 😂

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

Teach young girls how to spot gaslighting EARLY. Teach young girls to remove themselves from ANY situation that does not bring them peace of mind and/or joy. Teach young girls that boundaries are not up for negotiation. I’m here for the zero tolerance next generation of women.

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We want ORIGINALS!!!!!

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reboots reboots reboots god the tv and film industry is working so hard to be boring as fuck.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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I’m a microbudget filmmaker. I don’t work with large budgets. I can’t afford to pay my cast and crews because all of the tiny budget goes toward locations, props, gear, feeding people, and distribution. That said, here’s how I incentivize my productions for my team A THREAD.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Me and my friends are about to make a 1 location feature film for $25K. Watch.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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My editor just sent the first 15 mins of my feature film’s rough cut. I screamed. I cried. I screamed again. I really can’t believe I wrote/directed my first feature film this year. Holy SHIT it’s coming together 😭😭😭

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Indie filmmakers, Submitting to grant apps & film festivals , pitching your script, and consistently hearing “no” can be SO draining. Please. Find your community. Network across. Collaborate with each other and help each other make films. YOU are the new powers that be.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

11 months

Secured a brand sponsor for my feature film it’s UP!!!!! LFG!!!!!!!!

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

A lot of people ask me how I balance working full time as a commercial producer and being an indie filmmaker, so I figured I’d make a thread about it.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

Support Black indie filmmakers for Juneteenth. Slide in our DMs or email us to ask us how you can support our projects. White folks with money OPEN YOUR WALLETS.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Lmaooo I really can’t believe I wrote a feature film from 5am-8am before work for three months. Filmmakers with day jobs- find time for your art. Even if it’s just an hour a day, make time. It’s so worth it.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

4 years

I really need HBCU’s to step up their film programs. Like...do you know how many Black filmmakers NEED to be surrounded by Black film peers and taught by Black film professors?!? WHAT ARE WE DOING PEOPLE.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

I FINISHED MY FEATURE FILM OUTLINE 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Filmmakers, do your research. A lot of these first year, online, film “festivals” are simply collecting submission fees from filmmakers with no real festival programming or platform to display your work.

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I was never that filmmaker that wanted to know how to jump through the gatekeeping hoops to try to prove to industry executives that I should get my film made. I wanted to learn how to make the film, market it, and distribute it on my own. Show me the process. Not a person.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

I want to see more simple short films by indie filmmakers. Silent films. 5 minute films centered around inanimate objects. One room films. Sometimes I feel like creativity is lost, simply because filmmakers equate a good story with DOING THE MOST.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Indie filmmakers really need to collaborate with each other and share resources to build our portfolios. These corporations, agencies, and networks aren’t gonna give us the opportunities to tell our stories our way. Network across. COLLABORATE WITH EACH OTHER.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

I really can’t believe my podcast and my microbudget films are getting me flown out to film festivals to host workshops this year and next year. 🥲🥺🎞

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

I need every indie filmmaker to watch season 3 of #MasterofNone on Netflix. I am looking at the locked shots, one location, and “empty” scenes thinking about how many film “experts” would rip this to shreds. The lesson here is to ignore them and MAKE WHAT TF YOU WANT TO MAKE. Wow

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

I woke up to an email that my film was accepted to its third Oscar qualifying festival and I am in shambles on my way to this location scout 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

@deep_dab Who don’t?? I want the tongue in my esophagus. Tf

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

9 months

Idgaf how difficult indie filmmaking is- if the alternative is to hand over my precious art to institutions that would rather watch me starve than pay me a livable wage? I'll be over here with my full time job making indie films on my PTO and weekends FOREVER.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

1 year

BITCH! I am maxing out my Roth IRA, I'm paying off my credit card debt, I'm taking my vitamins, my LLC is in good standing, my dentist appointment is scheduled and my taxes are FILED. I am adulting HARD AS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lemme go buy something ion need to balance this out.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

I cannot believe I’m making a film about a Black Woman Santa Claus next week. 7 year old me is so happy right now. So so happy.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Alright microbudget indie filmmakers can gather round! I wrote a script about the North Pole doing a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion overhaul and appointing a Black Woman to the role of Santa! Here’s how me and my friends pulled off the short film for a $10,000 budget.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

I signed a distribution agreement for one of my films, my job assigned me to produce the biggest campaign of my career thus far, and I locked in 2 virtual screenings with massive audiences for Women’s History Month….we are FIVE DAYS INTO 2022.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Indie filmmakers, start thinking about and planning your marketing and distribution strategy as soon as the script is completed. Every film has an audience. You have to be strategic on how to reach them.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

More Black TV networks need to stream short films. Not everyone has the interest or attention span for series. Shorts are bite sized entertainment and can drive a lot of viewership to a network.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

4 years

MAKE FILMS WITH YOUR FRIENDS MAKE FILMS WITH YOUR FRIENDS MAKE FILMS WITH YOUR FRIENDS

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Just submitted my latest film to 13 film festivals across the globe. Now, we wait 🤓🤓🤓🤓

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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I hope this writers strike births a renaissance for filmmakers. I hope that more energy goes into passion projects and community collaboration. I hope festivals are flooded with submissions of indie films, and they take up more space. PS - fuck Hollywood. Pay your damn writers.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

Build your own table. Because as the queen @ava stated:

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

Indie documentary filmmakers, please tap into the educational, museum, public library, and niche festival market to distribute your work. For those of us who’s films revolve around impact, we have to be strategic about where and how we reach our intended audience. A THREAD

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The best part about being an indie filmmaker and funding my own films on a micro budget scale is the fact that I don’t have to wait for studios, corporations, or entities to green light my projects. We’re making this movie because I said so. That’s literally it.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Woke up to the news that my latest feature documentary just got picked up by @PrimeVideo after JUST signing the contracts for my latest short to be distributed with one of my favorite distributors. What a week. WHAT A WEEK.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

Although death is heartbreaking, I’m so comforted by the fact that Cicely is a Black Woman who lived a long full life, and got her flowers while she was here. She knew she was loved. She followed her dreams. She left an incredible legacy behind.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Being a filmmaker with a full time remote job > Creating when I want to, not because I have to > Making the films I want to make regardless of wtf Hollywood is doing > Man… 😩🙌🏽

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Any production company that wants to read your script should be willing to sign your NDA. If they aren’t, don’t let them read your script.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

When this pandemic is over, I’m producing a film and bringing a class of Black filmmakers on set to observe. There will literally be a classroom set up and a monitor in one of the rooms. Along with a daily pre shoot and post shoot meeting.

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How it started vs How it’s going.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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I do respect that Janine knows that she would be all in. And after being with her ex for YEARS, she’s finally finding herself. And she should take the time to do so. But GREGORY IS A CATCH AF.

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I genuinely attribute my success as a filmmaker to simply not giving a flying fuck what anyone else is doing creatively or industry wise. Make the films you want to make. Your audience will find you. Your teams will find you. Quiet the noise and carve your own path.

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We need to equip filmmakers with the tools to navigate things like how to read contracts, negotiations, pitching, marketing, distribution, Portfolio building tips, how to create a reel that best showcases work, and branding yourself as a filmmaker. ACTUAL industry tips.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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I think I can attribute a lot of my success as a filmmaker to me romanticizing the FUCK out of each and every one of my projects. So much of it is really believing in your creative vision and being proud of what you’re creating.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

This weekend I’m directing a visual album with an entire crew of Black women. Producer, director, production coordinator, DP, AC, EVERYONE. Anytime a corporation says that they can’t “find” Black talent, it’s bullshit. Remember that.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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As an indie filmmaker who has built her entire brand on saying “fuck Hollywood” I am SO EXCITED to watch Hollywood literally crumble and be forced to reshape COMPLETELY. This revolution is LONG overdue.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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The best thing I’ve done for myself as an indie filmmaker is focus on what I could create within my means. Creating micro budget films, networking across, and working a full time job to fund my own projects.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

So my next documentary film is called ‘Daughters of Eve’. It’s a doc that dives into dismantling patriarchal violence within the Christian faith. We shoot May 4th-May 8th A THREAD.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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1 year later. Production begins this fall. Manifest that shit!!!!!!!

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Me and my friends are about to make a 1 location feature film for $25K. Watch.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Using my bachelors in marketing, masters degree in cinema producing, and full time job as a strategist to navigate brand partnerships for my feature film >>> Oh honey, it’s so on 💅🏽

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Film/TV producers never get enough credit. Directors literally get all of the shine. Anytime I’m directing I’m singing the praises of my producer because productions LITERALLY don’t happen without them.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Holy fuck. I got signed to a roster, directed 2 films and a visual album, produced 6 commercials, got a fully remote senior producer role, and awarded a Black woman director to a commercial campaign for the first time in my career….THIS YEAR?! Lowkey 2021 kinda slapped ..

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

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Abbott Elementary’s pilot script helped me properly format a mockumentary script. 3 cameras rolling simultaneously with an ensemble cast is A LOT to write & direct, but I’m proud. full thread on the process coming after we wrap. Press release:

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@Zanah__

Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

The sooner filmmakers start to think like marketers the better. Know your audience. Your film is not for “everyone”. Your film has a specific audience and your festival submissions and distribution plan should cater to the audience that you are trying to reach.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

No one talks about the lack of control you have when you are contracted to produce/direct in “partnership” with an entity. U make very few decisions & don’t have final say in ANY aspect of “your” work. don’t let anyone shame you for being an indie filmkr. There’s real power there

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@Zanah__

Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

It’s Black History Month, not BIPOC history month. Adjust your drafted posts accordingly.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

2 years

Filmmakers- Planning for post production actually starts in preproduction.

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Zanah (Zay-Nuh) Thirus

3 years

I always start my films with production decks that outline the following: • logline • synopsis •target audience •themes/subjects •script or interview questions • production / shoot/ post schedule •budget •targeted festivals & distribution plan

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