How to make a Profitable Low Budget Movies on Tubi with Justin Milton

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Today I’m talking to Producer and Director Justin Milton

Justin has produced a bunch of low budget thrillers and dramas that have done very well on online streaming platforms and have begun to earn him significant profit.
In this chat I talked to Justin about how he got into the business, he gave me his tips for creating a film thats going to end up on Tubi, how to make the most money out of it, excellent tips for things to do and not to do in that film to help your film do well on the platform and we also talked about the advantages of making a thriller.
Check out Justin's book "Turning Six Thousand into Six Figures in Six Month"
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/turning-six-thousand-into-six-figures-in-six-months-justin-milton/1146059422?fbclid=IwY2xjawEU8jVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXDlshJeXJPIXixxpq7LCg86TlJ_S3wLyIXFkBcf2QEssHTpXwyhDT9WMA_aem_IiQ9zQDOLP73YLGDbvQ2ag

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Chapters

1. Intro to Justin and his movies (00:00:00)

2. Justin's route into filmmaking (00:00:55)

3. The budgets for Justins movies and how he raises the money (00:02:21)

4. Having three roles on set - writer, director and producer (00:04:03)

5. The casting process - working with good actors (00:05:52)

6. Filmmaking in Huston Texas (00:08:35)

7. Why work on thrillers? (00:09:54)

8. Sales and distribution (00:14:29)

9. Navigating expectations for an African American filmmaker (00:16:32)

10. Film festivals - is it worth it? (00:19:04)

11. What does Justin wish he'd known before he started making films? (00:21:55)

12. Tubi - what to do and what not to do (00:25:26)

13. Reasons to subscribe (00:29:23)