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HOW TO GET HIRED FOR A JOB YOU'VE NEVER DONE
by Jeff Fisher My living room looked like the inside of a UPS truck. Movers were coming Tuesday. I was leaving for a shoot in Chicago on Wednesday — a thriller that had its own set of complications, including the fact that until very recently, it had a different director. This job came in the middle of moving and I had a lot of packing to do. And at the moment, plenty of production hurdles I needed to help solve. Meanwhile, a friend of mine went out to dinner on a Friday nigh

Jeff Fisher
Apr 138 min read


How I Got My First Feature Film Made (Part 2): Six Schools, One Red Carpet, and The Hollywood Reporter Bombshell
On the set of KILLER MOVIE by Jeff Fisher You can read Part 1 of this story here: https://www.reeltalkwithjeff.com/post/how-i-got-my-first-feature-film-made-part-1-dead-bodies-paris-hilton-and-a-thousand-no-s After a thousand "No's," a last-minute financing swing, and some epic casting luck, I arrived in Minneapolis ready to shoot my first feature film. There was just one problem: the snow was gone. "Dead of Winter" would need a new name. But that was the least of my worries

Jeff Fisher
Jan 612 min read


WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MARISSA TOMEI'S BORROWED DRESS GOES MISSING ON YOUR BROKE-ASS MUSICAL
THERE IS NO SHORT FILM JAIL. BUT THERE IS A DRY CLEANER IN WEST HOLLYWOOD WHO ALMOST ENDED MY EARLY CAREER. by Jeff Fisher There are moments in life when you look around at the favors you’ve called in, the credit cards you’ve maxed out, the Steadicam operator who showed up on a handshake — and think: How exactly are we going to pull this thing off? This is the story of one of those moments. ANSWERING OTHER PEOPLE’S PHONES I had already made one short film — a 30-minute romant

Jeff Fisher
Nov 20, 20259 min read
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