Years after I graduated from college, I heard how writer/director Robert Rodriguez declared indie filmmakers need to write to their budgets. When he wrote El Mariachi, he had a bus, a guitar case, and a turtle, so he knew all of that would be in his movie. However, in 1994-1995, I saw this strategy used to its fullest by filmmakers B. Anthony Gibson, Jay Atkins, and Nathan Perry with their studio Tatum Pictures. And their tactics inspired me to write a no-budget short film of my own, which would become Phoenix Rising.

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