Breakout Session: A Beginners Guide To Independent Feature Filmmaking In 2025
Location
Witter's Conference Room (4440 Booth Library)
Start Date
27-9-2025 12:00 PM
End Date
27-9-2025 12:55 PM
Description
Learn how Damien LeVeck found his footing in the entertainment business and eventually launched a production company making feature-length independent films. This presentation will explain the best way to get your feature film produced and distributed. In it we will cover: script development (shorts & features), financing, casting, sales companies and distribution, and physical production.
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Breakout Session: A Beginners Guide To Independent Feature Filmmaking In 2025
Witter's Conference Room (4440 Booth Library)
Learn how Damien LeVeck found his footing in the entertainment business and eventually launched a production company making feature-length independent films. This presentation will explain the best way to get your feature film produced and distributed. In it we will cover: script development (shorts & features), financing, casting, sales companies and distribution, and physical production.
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Damien Leveck
Damien LeVeck is quickly emerging as a distinctive voice and creative iconoclast in modern horror filmmaking. His debut feature, The Cleansing Hour (2020), became one of Shudder's most-watched titles, earning praise for its relentless pacing and inventive twist on the exorcism genre. He followed it with A Creature Was Stirring (2023), a holiday horror thriller starring Chrissy Metz (This Is Us), Annalise Basso( Oculus),and Scout Taylor-Compton( Halloween),further cementing his reputation for delivering stylish, unsettling, and emotionally grounded genre films.
Damien approaches horror not just as a vehicle for scares, but as a lens to explore morality, evil, and the deeper questions that haunt human existence. His films aim to provoke thought as much as fear, leaving audiences with narratives that resonate well beyond the final frame. His work as a director has been greatly influenced by over two decades of professional film and TV editing. As an Editor, he developed an intuitive sense of story structure, rhythm, and visual storytelling-skills that make him efficient and decisive on set.
Damien grew up in Mattoon, Illinois and graduated from Mattoon High School before moving to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California.