Masters of the Micro Budget

In the inaugural episode of Masters of the Micro Budget filmmaker Shawn Burkett joins Masters of the Micro Budget to break down the making of his cult indie horror feature Don’t Fuck in the Woods (2016), from production constraints to release strategy.

In this episode we dig into the business side of micro budget filmmaking: what the hard costs really looked like, what worked (and didn’t) in marketing, how distribution decisions shaped the outcome, and the biggest lessons Shawn took into his later work.

In episode two of Masters of the Micro Budget: Host Jason D. Morris sits down with the creative team behind the outrageous indie horror comedy Haunted…

In this episode, we discuss: How Final Summer came together Building a modern indie slasher Working with a microbudget production mindset Producing horror with limited resources What filmmakers can learn from making a marketable genre film The realities of indie horror production, marketing, distribution, and audience building Masters of the Micro Budget is a FilmRogue series documenting how independent films under $100K actually get made. Real budgets. Real lessons. Just constraint, craft, and survival.

After pulling off the heist of the century, notorious space pirate Trix Richards and her gang of interplanetary outlaws attempt a daring getaway in an antique warship. The mercenaries blaze through the galaxy with the law on their tail, seeking refuge on a long-forgotten sinister moon. But when the ship crashes into the storm-shrouded orb, they find themselves stranded in a nightmare world of unrelenting terror, with a scout missing and a fatally wounded leader.