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The Secret Bloody Truths – Get Your Indie Horror Film Made!

February 20, 2025 @ 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
LOOK Cinemas Theater 4, 657 West 57th Street
New York,NY10019United States


Get Your Indie Horror Film Financed, Produced and Distributed – Learn The Secret, Down And Dirty, Bloody Truth Of How To Slice And Dice It Right.

Horror has always been a proving ground for emerging filmmaking talent. Now, two independent horror filmmakers who weren’t nepo babies, had no connections to financing and zero Hollywood connections yet somehow wound up with a combined more than half century of experience in the world of horror filmmaking reveal the little known yet vital secrets that can get your indie horror film financed and into production.

Ian Holt and Jim Thalman learned these secrets in the gory trenches through trial and error, spilled blood and guts (literally and figuritively) and have led a lifetime of terrifying success that has fueled their scary careers and horrific showbiz movie nightmares.

Avoid the pitfalls and mistakes that slit the throat of most starting out horror filmmakers. Learn the truths they don’t teach you in film school and probably should. Better yet, skip the film school altogether, save yourself hundreds of thousands of dollars and just come see Ian and Jim. If you “bind what they have learned. Save you it can.” And you too, can make your bloody horror movie nightmares come true.

Come get all of your questions answered! This event is FREE and open to the public but you must REGISTER IN ADVANCE

About The Speakers

Ian  Holt

Ian Holt

A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ian Holt studied under the late great Stella Adler and Beatrice Straight. Ian is the co-author, with Dacre Stoker, of the international best seller, Dracula The Un-Dead, the official sequel to Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, Dracula. Ian wrote the cult classic slasher, Dr. Chopper starring Costas Mandylor, and wrote and produced the hit supernatural found footage thriller, Episode 50, co-produced by Ehud Bleiberg and Compound B. Most recently, Ian produced the horror feature Death Metal and wrote the story for and produced the acclaimed thriller, From The Shadows starring ...
Jim Thalman

Jim Thalman

Jim Thalman is the Managing Director of i*Deal Films, a film finance fund that provides first monies to curated high concept independent feature films. i*Deal’s current slate of films include “MISERIA” (“The Mummy” meets “Murder on the Orient Express”) and “Psychopathy” (“Dinner at Andre’s” with serial killers.) In addition, Jim is overseeing the development of three more optioned scripts scheduled for production in 2025 & 2026. Jim is also the President of MoviVue, a premiere genre streaming service that went live in October of 2024. MoviVue is backed by Wealth of Geeks a mini-major conglomerate that owns hundreds of websites ...

MoviVue Premiere Horror Streaming

MoviVue Premiere Horror Streaming

MoviVue Premiere Horror Streaming is dedicated to streaming the undiscovered gems of indie horror. But more than that, to the full scale promotion and marketing of those films at a level unheard of in the indie arena. MoviVue's parent company Wealth of Geeks is a coalition of bloggers, podcasters and journalists. They are members of the Associated Press, syndicated on 5000 regional US networks and have an average monthly viewership of 120 Million unique visitors on their MSN page. Come "Join The Horror Revolution" at MoviVue ...

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