Ultra Low Budget Movies (Under $10,000)
There's been some discussions on here about movies that cost less than $10K that at least ended up on Tubi or other streamers. Here is a list I compiled from here and other places. Are there any others you would like to add?
Sect - Budget $2K
https://tubitv.com/movies/707160/sect
Ente - Budget $2K
https://tubitv.com/movies/100002675/ente
Settling Down - Budget $3K
https://tubitv.com/movies/100009240/settling-down
Eradication - Budget $5K
https://tubitv.com/movies/677551/eradication
Bedridden - Budget $5K
https://tubitv.com/movies/100003658/bedridden
Lexi - Budget $5K
https://tubitv.com/movies/674518/lexi
Let Me Be Frank - Budget $5K
https://tubitv.com/movies/634874/let-me-be-frank
Red 11 - Budget $7K
https://tubitv.com/movies/674669/red-11
Borderland - Budget $7K
https://tubitv.com/movies/627013/borderland
Butterscotch Chocolate - Budget $8K
https://tubitv.com/movies/100000446/butterscotch-chocolate
The God Inside My Ear - Budget $8K
https://tubitv.com/movies/493904/the-god-inside-my-ear
Joke Book: The Movie - Budget $8K
https://tubitv.com/movies/722507/joke-book
Homewrecker - Budget $9K
https://tubitv.com/movies/713911/homewrecker
Thanks to all the anons that have contributed to these threads with budget, camera, acting, lens, sound and production information. These posts have been inspirational and I have decided I'm going to get a couple thousand bucks together and make my own movie. I've been wanting to do it since I left college and I'm finally going to do it. If these people can do it, I can do it. So next year when you see a movie on Tubi that has Cinemaphile under "Special Thanks", you'll know it was me. Thanks for the motivation, anons.
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Good thread
Good luck, Anon
Monsters and Coherence were both microbudget films iirc.
Bad thread
The book is a good read. Well over a decade since I read it and I'm still amused at the advice to pitch to dentists for funding.
It's not bad advice, but who knows if it's still true. I remember reading that most of the people who invested in Evil Dead were dentists.
Me too. I remember the line "Dentists are the stupidest people in North America with the most money" Oddly accurate observation.
Glen or Glenda. I don't know the budget, but it was quite low.
I think it was $20,000 in the '50s. Which is like $200,000 today. It's still impressive since they could only shoot on film and filming equipment was limited in those days. Digital has really leveled the playing field.
The following
Better than anything that came out last year
Good rec, anon. I think Nolan spent under $10,000 for that one. Not the greatest movie, but pretty engaging considering the budget.
>movies that cost less than $10K that at least ended up on Tubi or other streamers
How did they get onto Tubi?
What were the other streamer sites listed?
According to one anon who said they put a movie on there. You just have to have the correct specs and you can upload a movie. It takes a few weeks to approve and they'll let you know if there is any errors. The contract is basically a revenue split from ad revenue, so no upfront cost. They said it's like YouTube, but instead of taking a few minutes to show up, it takes a few weeks.
Some other streamers that practically accept anything are Amazon/Freevee, Xumo and Plex. If you're lazy, places like FilmHub will accept your movie and do all the work to get them on all the streamers and they get a 20% or so cut of all the revenue you get. I'm not sure if they have an upfront fee.
Interesting, thanks
How much do you see on these sites in terms of legit avant-garde/experimental films? Not just low budget indie drama/horror shit, but non-narrative, unconventional films?
Freevee is pretty conventional. Tubi advertises itself as having over 50,000 film titles, so it's impossible to look through it all. But they have every genre imaginable.
is this implying that sergeant kabukiman cost over 10k to make?
entirely possible with crew and film stock prices
It likely costed more. They exploded a car on a city street iirc. That alone has to cost $10000. Or perhaps that was borrowed film stock?
All the early Troma movies had million dollar+ budgets. Though he preached low budget, he had a healthy amount to play with do to pre-sales to foreign markets. Toxic Avenger was pretty big in Japan and some other places. I think he stopped making movies when the foreign money dried up. Even Lloyd struggled to make movies at a sub $100,000 budget.
LOVE The The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuk'em High , Tromeo an Juliet, Terror Firmer and Citizen Toxie.
But after reading his books and hearing/seeing how he treated people I've cum to the collusion that he's a scummy israelite rat!!!FACT!!
You watched Terror Firmer and saw what kind of moronic role he gave his own daughter and didn't reach the conclusion then?
do u guys count foreign films or not? I bet plenty of african or chinese films have had an ultra small budget
As long as they got distribution in the U.S. they count. I think the cutoff is YouTube. Any idiot can put anything on YouTube. So it had to be released on any platform above YouTube to qualify as legitimate distribution.
that is a HUGE amount of tubi links
and I didn't click a single one
Did you watch The Man from Earth?
Or Coherence?
no but i watched Space Truckers because I want to fugg Debi Mazar
I kind of did this, anon. Wrote a 10 minute short film and found a production company in Los Angeles that shot it. It cost $3000 which is a lot of money, but I don’t have any other hobbies and I don’t have the desire to manage a film crew, learn lighting etc. I encourage all anon‘s out there too bring their scripts into reality
Hello anons , my basic problem is , how do I script a low budget film and where do I learn about the tech required like audio equipment and camera lenses?
I was thinking of shooting on iPhone but how do I record quality audio?
And more over where and how do you guys write your scripts?