Documentary Filmmaking Step by Step - How to get it made

*Updated, 2025, with new assignments and resources*Get filmmaking secrets, from finding (and securing) financing, through surviving production, through distribution and everything in between from me, Adam Bhala Lough, a Spirit Award nominated, Emmy nominated, 3-time Sundance Film Festival alum and one of Filmmaker Magazine's Top 25 Indie Filmmakers to Watch. Who am I. I'm an internationally acclaimed filmmaker.

I directed the HBO series TELEMARKETERS, which was nominated for an Emmy in 2025, and three documentaries that were the #1 documentary on the iTunes charts. I've had an incredible amount of success in my career, but I have also failed many, many times. You will learn where I failed along the way so you won't make the same mistakes.

I'm also a mentor at the Sundance Native labs and Latino Screenwriting labs so I know how to teach in a concise and clear way. Why should you take this course and not another. You will get secrets only a seasoned pro can reveal- from the beauty of not paying insane clearance fees by claiming "fair-use," to how to get into a film festival without any connections.

It's all in this 5 hour course. Other courses give general knowledge of how to make a film from people with minimal actual real-world experience. This course is taught directly from my experience making ten feature length documentary films, all of which have received worldwide distribution and been translated into many languages.