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These five steps will help you set out on the path towards developing your own reality TV show or documentary film with a professional, well thought out concept and a solid 30 second pitch.

1. THE HOMEWORK: The first step in developing your reality TV show or documentary film is research. As you begin flushing out your idea, do your homework. Think of all the reality TV shows and documentary films you’ve seen in your lifetime. Which ones did you enjoy most? Why? Make notes of them and actively… Continue

How to Fund Your Own Reality or Documentary TV Show
By: Hector Herrera

A professional actor, producer, director or performer of any kind, can only take so much. Enough is enough already! If you are like a good number of aspiring actors, you are probably fed up with the poor material and the treacherous auditioning process. Lord knows, you are really only waiting till you can build enough brand power to bank your own project anyway. Am I right or am I right?

Well its time you “Take The L… Continue

By: Hector V. Herrera

Your vision floats slowly out the window of your modest 500sqft studio, of a shabby 4 story walk up on the lower east side of Manhattan. Your eyes carry you just south of St Marks place and directly onto the city street where professional talent from all corners of the world and all genres like modeling, acting, theater performance, comedians, and singers alike, rush past you moving swiftly on the way to their dreams. Is it an opening to the latest Indy film at the Tribeca… Continue