Doug BlushTrailers that make your film shine

One of the most powerful tools an independent film has is its promotional trailer or sizzle reel. This short impression of a film is both a funding tool and an enticement audiences all over the world, and it’s a special art form very different than the main film itself. We’ll talk about effective trailers, how to intrigue without giving away your whole story, and how to make different forms of trailers for different uses. We’re hoping to workshop a few of our participants’ trailers as time permits, and we’ll have active questions and answers from our group in this interactive online session. Send your trailers to moc.liamg%40auffia and we'll choose several expamples which we will discuss during the workshop.

Doug Blush is an award-winning director, producer, editor, writer and cinematographer whose work includes over 200 feature and television projects, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as well as the American Cinema Editors (ACE). His recent credits include, as producer and editor, the 2023 Academy Award winning THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS, the 2020 Critics’ Choice Award and 2022 Peabody Award-winning MR SOUL!, the 2019 Academy Award-winning PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE, the 2018 Academy Award-winning ICARUS, and, as supervising editor, the 2013 Oscar winner 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, for which he also received the ACE Eddie Award for Best Documentary Editing.

He is also a longtime film educator with classes and seminars at USC, UCLA, Syracuse University and the YoungArts Foundation in Miami, as well as exchanges and panels in Indonesia, Brazil, New Zealand, Armenia, Malaysia, Nigeria, China, Latvia, The Netherlands and more.
Doug co-owns MadPix Films, a Los Angeles-based production and post production company.