Microsoft Teams Up with Two Camels!

The Dell Sisters are working with Microsoft Office365 and 85 Broads to profile women-run businesses making things happen.

Preparing for a film, we work from phones, tablets, laptops, and more, traveling between sets, offices, and states.  Office “in the cloud” has come on board to streamline remote contacts and help make business run better!   Yay remote access!

We are just beginning our Office365 makeover, so stay tuned for updates as we deal with migrations (you want to put all my email where?!!), onsite visits, deployments, and marketing.

Two Camels Films is one of five women-run companies around the US selected for the “Your Office, Your Terms” campaign and we are extremely grateful for the support.

Microsoft Office 365 is an amazing toolset and 85 Broads is a crazy cool group of women around the globe who are kicking down doors everywhere.

Thank you Microsoft and 85 Broads!

Money and Movies

There was a time when all I wanted to do was make my first movie.  And when sweat, tears and a lot of luck turned into a movie, all I could think about was getting it out into the world – convincing distributors and Showtime viewers and DVD buyers (those brave, defiant three!) to love B-GIRL as I do.  It was terrifying and exhilarating.  And THEN I learned something new – I didn’t just want to make a movie, I wanted to make ANOTHER one.

So I found myself starting over, back at the beginning of the movie process: finding the financing.  For a producer like myself, independent film is about money; no studio is footing the bill so I’ve got to figure out how to pay for the movie and make it for less.  Yes this is a creative business, but don’t forget the second word of that name – It’s a Business.  And as such, money is the foundation – every creative choice, provocative camera angle or meaningful movie moment depends on raising those funds…

Read Full Article Here…

* This piece was written by Producer Elizabeth Dell and originally published in the Women and Hollywood Blog, August 16, 2011.