One Fat Cigar - The Film Maker's Choice

Who are we?

We're filmmakers who wanted to find a way to promote our projects from day 1, find some other really cool film talent, meet some new people like you, and hopefully collaborate on some film projects. We've also built some fairly big websites in our time too, so it seemed like quite a natural collaboration.

What is One Fat Cigar?

We'd often watched the behind-the-scenes footage on DVD's and like what they did and thought it is a shame no one ever did that as they were producing the film - I would definitely have been more likely to go and watch the film if I had known what they had gone through to make it.

One Fat Cigar is the place where film fans can find out about your film projects before they even been distributed. Who knows, it might even get you distributed, since when we have enough content we'll be talking to distributors about the best and most exciting projects on the One Fat Cigar Website.

What is One Fat Cigar going to do for you?

1. First and Foremost help you build a big fan base for your film
2. Help your cast and crew get promoted to other film makers and get work
3. Find talented cast and crew for your productions
4. Allow you to connect with other filmmakers, writers and actors
5. Allow you to generate massive viral and word of mouth opportunities for your film - even before you've finished production
6. Market your film, get you an audience and provide a process that helps with distribution, interest and sales of your film
7. Help you find other really cool films, film makers, actors and writers who you might like to follow

All of which is great as it gives us a fantastic opportunity to build a community of film makers and fans - and since you're one of the first on the site we'll be asking for your feedback quite often since what we have is good - but it's only going to get better. For it to do that we need your help and input.

What kind of content do you need to produce to get the best results?

Here's some ideas...

1. Video Production Diary - a daily or weekly update and be interesting and tell a story
2. Location Diary - where do you plan to shoot the film? Let's see the locations.
3. Auditions/Casting - what about your cast made you choose them?
4. Visual FX - how are you achieving certain shots?
5. Trailer - every film needs a great trailer - we'd love to see it
6. Status updates - a la twitter, if you're on set, let us know what's going on!
7. Interviews - with key cast and crew
8. Suspense - we don't want to know everything, just like to be teased, so don't tell us all at once!

Need Proof?

There's thousands of you using our site, facebook and twitter already, and we're only just here. With your help we can spread the word and build a really strong community and help promote each other's films. One Fat Cigar is a really powerful tool to help you do that.

We would love you to sign up to the site.

Try it out with a Basic Membership.

Or to access Jobs, upload your CV, showreel, biography, filmography, post jobs, create projects and network with other actors and film makers, and promote your work choose Premium membership.

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* We've tried to keep it as inexpensive as possible as we know indie film makers have it tough - we're here to help - but most importantly we want to develop this service for you and make it even better than it is.

Craig & Ross
Founders, One Fat Cigar.