Hey everyone, I’ve decided to close this Skool group and bring everything together inside the new Director’s Cut private community. I’ve loved connecting with you here, and I’d love to have you join me over there. The way in is through The Solo Studio System—my course to help filmmakers build a business around the work they want to do, with more consistent, better-paying clients. You’ll get the course along with access to our private Director’s Cut community, where we can keep the conversations going. As a thank-you for being part of this group, use code DIRECTORSCUT at checkout for 25% off through November 1. 👉 Explore The Solo Studio System: https://c.directorscut.studio/solo-studio This Skool group will close on November 9. Until then, the existing lessons will stay available, so you have time to finish anything you’ve started and save anything you need. Thanks for being part of this. I hope to see you inside Director’s Cut! Jonathan

Election season means a LOT of video gets made — and most filmmakers have no idea how that work actually gets commissioned or where they fit into it. Tomorrow I’m going to break down the political advertising world from a production perspective. We’ll talk about who actually hires filmmakers, the agencies and organizations behind the campaigns, the kinds of content being produced, what makes political production different, and how you can start finding opportunities. I’ll also share some of my own experience producing political work and what I’ve learned along the way. Thursday at 10am PT. Link is in the calendar. See you there.

We’re talking all things legal — contracts, permits, talent agreements, releases, and more. It’ll be a good one. 10am PT. Links are in the calendar.

OK then... what the hell is branding? We hear "brand" and immediately think logo, website, colors, maybe a positioning statement. But your brand is really what people say about you when you're not there. If I asked one of your clients, "Who's Sarah? What is she great at? What kind of work does she do? Why would I hire her?" Whatever they say is a pretty good indication of the brand you've already built. So this Thursday, we're going to actually work on it. We'll look at what your work, website, reel, LinkedIn, and clients currently say about you. Do they all tell the same story? Then we'll dig into what you want to be known for, what you're genuinely great at, and where that overlaps with what the market actually needs. Bring your website, reel, LinkedIn, or anything else you use to present yourself. We're going to do some real exercises together and see what we uncover. Thursday at 10AM PT No logo redesign required. 🙂

I’m trying something a little different this Thursdays meetup. I want to open things up and give the community more time to share, connect, and honestly just get to know each other better. We’ve built an incredible group. Every week I look around the Zoom and I’m kind of amazed by the experience, talent, and perspective in the room. So this week: no big presentation. No slides. Instead, let’s spend the hour talking about what we’re all actually working on right now. What’s going well? What’s not? What are you building? Are you stuck on something? Rethinking your website? Working on a new offer? Trying to land a client? Maybe you just had a great week and want to share a win. Bring it. I’ll get us started by sharing a few things I’m working through myself — a win, a loss, and something I’m currently a little stuck on — and then we’ll open it up. And you absolutely don’t have to bring anything. Come hang out, listen, and jump in when you want. Thursday at 10am PT. What are you working on? Come tell us Thursday. The links in the calender.