Welcome!
I’ve been working in the film industry for more than decade, and I created this site to share. Not just my work, but also the battle stories and lessons that I’ve learned and other non-film adventures and projects.
There’s the projects that I’ve written, directed or done visual effects on. Also, if you’re here for the Articles, check out my blog.
Sincerely,
Carlos Aldana
Latest Articles
How to be a better director: 4 and a half lessons I learned the hard way
Directing films is not a finite goal, it's a process and you never stop learning. Here's four and a half lessons that I've learned the hard way over the years: 1 - Casting casting casting! I used to think something like... "I'm a good director, so I'll get a great...
Stuck? Figure out what you REALLY want to do with your life
Much of the advise you hear about success can be very useful to help you get what you want. But what if you don't know what you want? Maybe you have an idea like "I want to get more money" or "I want to work in entertainment". The problem is, vague goals produce vague...
Plans and Goals for 2014
I know, I know. We're almost in February. But my very first goal of the year was to set my other goals... mission accomplished! Here are my goals for this 2014: Professional goals: My professional goals are simple. I just finished my latest feature film script,...
Making an epic short film on a budget
Over the last year and a half I've been putting together an action packed sci-fi show for the web called 'Bionique', and we're doing it with a budget so low it's ridiculous. We made a Prologue Episode and a Trailer (that you can watch at the bottom of the article)....
Flagged as a spammer by Kickstarter
It was the third week of the Kickstarter Campaign for Bionique. We'd only raised around $900 and I was running out of ideas. I went again to the wildly successful VGHS Season 2 Kickstarter page to see if something jogged my mind... something did. I saw that they had...
Writing women, blacks or any other non ‘mainstream’ lead characters
In all of my scripts so far, my lead characters inevitably have all started as an ethnically ambiguous male in his mid twenties. You could attribute that to the fact that I am indeed, a 25 year old male and that I write from my own point of view. But maybe, just...