What I Learned Producing My First Short Film

Lizzie Rajchel
2 min readJun 8, 2022

Budgeting and networking is key.

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

I just wrapped production of a short film that is premiering later this month and as a self taught filmmaker, here are the biggest lessons I learned.

Use your network

We were working with a $1000 grant as our budget, which dissapears very quickly on a film production. I knew that we would have…

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Lizzie Rajchel

I’m a multi-passionate who writes about many things including: social media, freelancing, mental health, film and television.