Film Making Los Angeles

Entertainment Industry Network Event/Gifted ARTists

Join us for our monthly in-person entertainment industry meet-up in Los Angeles, where the people you need to meet are in the room. This event is designed for cinematographers, photographers, actors, and singers who are ready to stop chasing opportunities and start building real connections that lead to work, visibility, and growth. If you’re a cinematographer or photographer, this is your chance to meet venue owners, talent buyers, and industry decision-makers who are actively looking for visual talent. If you’re an actor or singer, this is where you can connect with the people who book talent, create opportunities, and help you get seen by the right audience. We bring together the exact people who can help solve the biggest pain point in this industry: access. This is more than a social event. It’s a room full of possibilities, where your next booking, collaboration, or introduction could happen through one conversation. Come ready with your business cards, your portfolio, your reel, your headshots, and your confidence. Bring your A-game, because the people who can move your career forward will be there. Our goal is simple: to create a space where talent meets opportunity. Whether you’re looking to get booked, build your brand, find creative partners, or connect with venue owners and talent buyers, this event is built for you. Who should attend? Cinematographers looking for paid shoots and industry connections. Photographers wanting to connect with venues, artists, and talent buyers. Actors seeking casting opportunities and professional visibility. Singers ready to perform, network, and get booked. Industry professionals who want to build meaningful relationships and expand their reach. What you’ll get? Direct access to industry professionals and decision-makers. Real networking with people who can help move your career forward. Opportunities to build relationships that can lead to bookings and collaborations. A welcoming, high-energy environment made for creative professionals. Come out, make the connection, and put yourself in the right room. This is where opportunity meets preparation.

Let's shoot a short film in a day

Los Angeles Film in a Hat is a welcoming, low-pressure meetup for people who want to actually make things together. Every week, the goal is simple: **One scene. One location. One short film or sketch.** PLEASE UPLOAD SCRIPTS HERE: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F6TOzm1aL5Dtpd4sNjxZhm3yD_5_fmRz?usp=sharing Anyone can submit a short script ahead of time. Scripts should be simple, shootable, and ideally around 2–4 pages, with one location that’s easy to access — an apartment, park, backyard, sidewalk, parking lot, outside a café, etc. Makisupa is close to a park if we need an exterior scene and close to my apartment where we shot the last short film. We’ll choose the script together in advance so that when Sunday comes, we can spend our time actually making it. We’ll meet at a coffee shop at **3 PM**, hang out, meet everyone, read through the script together, figure out cast and crew, and then go shoot it. If you have experience, equipment, or a role you’d especially like to take on, you’re welcome to volunteer ahead of time. Want to direct, shoot, record sound, act, edit, produce, or do something else? Great. Have a camera, microphones, lights, tripod, or other easy-to-carry gear you’re happy to bring? Amazing. Whatever roles are still open can go into the hat. You absolutely do not need professional experience or fancy equipment to join. If someone brings great gear, we’ll use it. If nobody does, I have an iPhone and some wireless mics. That’s enough. The thing we make might turn out great. It might be weird. It might be messy. It might be terrible. That’s totally fine. The whole point is to get into the habit of creating instead of waiting for the perfect script, crew, budget, equipment, or opportunity. We want to write things, shoot things, act in things, try new roles, meet other creative people, learn from each other, and actually finish stuff. ### Sunday schedule **3:00–3:30 PM** — Meet up, introductions, coffee, read through the script **3:30–4:00 PM** — Figure out cast and crew, make a quick plan, head to the location **4:00–6:30 PM** — Shoot **6:30–7:00 PM** — Pickups, wrap, and celebrate making something No budget required. No fancy gear required. No need to be an expert. Just bring yourself, a collaborative attitude, and anything you’d be excited to contribute. **One scene. One location. One short or sketch. Every week.** Really excited and grateful to anyone who wants to spend a few hours making things together.

JOHNNY DEPP in "EBENEZER" - FREE ADVANCE SCREENING- BURBANK - Limited Seats!

Let's make a short film.

Let's make short videos/ Feature films that are both narrative and documentary. This group develops both short films/feature films. We will help each other with our own projects. We provide feedback and can help with crew for each other's productions. We call ourselves Lettuce Film Production. Join our vibrant filmmaking community in Los Angeles, where your ideas can come to life! Everyone is welcome to collaborate and create. Don’t miss out—check out our next meetup! We create movies for free; we exchange skills and time! The only thing we ask is that you subscribe to our channels before attending. Thanks [https://www.youtube.com/@LettuceFilmProduction/videos?app=desktop](https://www.youtube.com/@LettuceFilmProduction/videos?app=desktop) [https://www.instagram.com/lettuce_film_production/](https://www.instagram.com/lettuce_film_production/)

Script Jam - Write a short screenplay in one hour! (FREE)

Monthly Meetup with creatives from film, games, and the digital arts

Greetings! We hold this Meetup at IDLE HOUR, a classic North Hollywood roadside landmark, a registered LA Historic-Cultural Monument that has been restored by the same folks who manage our previous locations, Harlowe and The Formosa. Meetups will always be the FOURTH MONDAY of every month. IDLE HOUR is on Vineland Ave, just off Lankershim Blvd and Camarillo St: [4824 Vineland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 91601](https://maps.app.goo.gl/hXynb9pxoQvufKRz5) This event is open to professionals and enthusiasts alike, so whether you're an experienced or novice musician, game designer, VFX artist, writer or a budding independent filmmaker, come mingle, share insights, and build connections with others who share your passion for creativity. Don't miss this chance to meet new friends, collaborators, and potential business partners in the exciting worlds of film, music, and media. We will meet on the patio out back next to the giant pipe-smoking bulldog! There's easy street parking all around, and the Metro Red Line NoHo station is about a 20 minute walk.

Creative Tech & Visual Arts Mixer

Network with LA creatives working at the intersection of art, technology, media, and production. Creativetoolkits is a community of 3D artists, fabricators, animators, VFX artists, TouchDesigner visual artists, software engineers, post-production professionals, videographers, directors, music producers, designers, creative coders, and more. Our goal is to create a space for people using creative technology to meet collaborators, exchange ideas, share projects, and build community. Whether you’re an industry professional, hobbyist, student, or just curious about how technology is being used in creative fields, you’re welcome to come hang out. Each week we have open sign ups for individuals who want to pitch an idea, showcase a project, or a present a topic. At the midpoint of the mixer event we will gather everyone for a short session for presentations with breakout sessions afterwards to network. Each presentation should last around a 1/2 minutes with a short Q/A session afterwards where requested. Sign up here! [https://forms.gle/FrH7MQhjTWwZphVm8](https://forms.gle/FrH7MQhjTWwZphVm8) **📍 Where:** Smalls LA \| 4149 W Pico Blvd \#103 Los Angeles\, CA **🗓 When:** Every Saturday! **🎟 Tickets:** Free Entry, but consider buying a drink as a 'thank you' to our local record store/coffee shop. **What to Bring:** **Yourself + what you’re working on:** Come ready to talk about your projects, tools, workflows, experiments, or ideas. **Support:** If we’re meeting at a local venue, please consider purchasing a drink or snack as a gesture of appreciation. **Get More Involved:** Eager to contribute? We’re looking for people interested in hosting project showcases, lectures, seminars, workshops, demos, creative hackathons, installation events, and collaborative meetups. Join the Discord and help shape the future of LA’s creative technology community. **Connect with us** Discord : [https://discord.gg/WemVunqCwS](https://discord.gg/WemVunqCwS) Instagram : [https://instagram.com/mycreativetoolkits](https://instagram.com/mycreativetoolkits)

Desi Film Club - Baramulla

Hey Everyone we are launching a Desi film club as an extension of the book club, this will be run by our book club member Natasha. Come one, come all to the Bollywood/Desi Film Club! My name is Natasha and I am creating this film club to build a community that celebrates, analyzes, and enjoy films made by and for desi people. We will be watching films from India's Hindi Film Industry, commonly known as Bollywood, and other film industries in India such as Malayalam Cinema, Tamil Cinema, Marathi Cinema, Bengali and so many more film industries that represent specific languages/ethnic cultures. Don't worry, we won't exclude Desi films from other desi siblings that make up the subcontinent in Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Sri Lanka and diaspora films made from the U.S., Canada, and more. ☺️ We will be exploring films from the silent era, to the golden era, current, mainstream, art house, and so much more! You don't have to be an expert on films or the industries (I certainly am not) to join. In celebration of the spooky season 👻 our first film will be the Bollywood film Baramulla (2025) which can be found on Netflix. Rules: 1\. Please watch the film on your own or with others and let's meet and talk about it\. 2\. All films suggested to watch must provide English Subtitles\. Not all of us are fluent in the 400\+ languages and dialects from the subcontinent\. ;\) 3\. No\, you do not have to be Indian or South Asian to be part of the club\. People of all ages\, at all levels of knowledge/exposure to desi films\, and all backgrounds are welcome to the club\. 4\. I will have a sign at one of the tables in Samosa House to let you know where we will be meeting\.

Exploring South Central LA- from selfies to features

Bring your iPhones, Androids, tablets and cameras.

Above & Beyond Screenwriting Workshop - In Person!

We're meeting at Oldfield's Liquor Room on Venice Blvd for the month of October. RSVP's open every Friday morning at 11:00am. The first five writers to RSVP and comment with "pages" will present their work the following Thursday. Please feel free to pm me for additional details. REQUIRED READING FOR NEW MEMBERS - Please read the Screenwriting Info sheet pdf before attending your first Thursday workshop. Message James the organizer with your email address, and he will send it to you.

Write or Die - Weekly Silent Screenwriting

THE SCHEDULE: 11 - 11:15AM: Arrival, chit-chat, purchase coffee, etc. 11:15-11:30 AM: Announcements + introductions 11:30-12:30 PM: WRITING (No talking, please.) 12:30-1:00 PM: Finish writing, chat about what you wrote, introduce latecomers, etc. Late to the party? No biggie, just sneak in and grab a seat. Start scribbling away, and we'll catch you up at the end. Once the session wraps, stick around to keep the creative juices flowing or mingle with the other word wizards. Heads up, though: outlets might be scarce, so check your battery before joining the fun. Note: there is a large parking lot behind Cafe Mak

Shut Up & Write!® in Los Feliz on Wednesdays!

Join us for some focused writing time. All writers and all experience levels are welcome and don’t worry, no one will see what you've written. This session is about getting your writing done and meeting other writers in your area. Feel free to show up between 6:30pm an 7pm to say hello, grab a drink and get your writing tools ready. At around 7pm, I will lead quick introductions and then set the timer for our quiet and focused writing session. We'll do 1 hour of quiet writing! Afterward from 8pm onwards, we’ll have time to chat and get to know each other. We often talk about our successes and challenges as writers. If you don’t have time to stick around, no worries! **A note about the format** We don’t host critiques or readings. These events are a safe space for writers of all skill levels and genres to work on their craft, so no one will read or critique your writing. For our full event schedule, visit [https://shutupwrite.com](https://shutupwrite.com). **Other Important Details:** WiFi name/password: They usually have free wifi, make sure to ask when you order food! Travel / Parking info: There is loads of street parking, and valet if you really want to do that. :P We'll be on the side of the house. Venue Guidelines: Please thank our hosts by purchasing something.