Making the Feature Film “The Keyman” It’s been 17 years. 20 if you count the birth of the script—which was in the summer of 1997. I worked in corporate and commercial videography and always dreamed of being a filmmaker. The idea for the movie “The Keyman” came to me in the parking lot of a grocery store. It was a huge “what if” question to something that had just happened to me. We shot the film in September of 2000, and released it in 2002. After my first film “The Keyman” (now available on iTunes and Amazon Prime) , I went on to direct four more movies over the next decade. But the first film is usually special and it was no different for me. Here are some of the biggest things I learned. First Time Filmmaker Needs to Hire…
