Creative Success/Commercial Failure

The Balas Brothers discuss how to boot-strap the marketing for an indie film.

The Balas Brothers have a spirited discussion about their various stances on Youtube and creative strategy for filmmakers and creators-alike. Ryan saw early organic success on youtube but grew tired of the platform's desire for volume-content while Alec discovered renewed energy for the creative practice within the context of creating a repeatable subscriber-driven format.

In this episode of The Creative Bubble, Ryan and Alec discuss Alec's first (official?) feature film "Buds". They explore the nature of hobby filmmaking with limited resources as a source of great joy and freedom.

In this episode of The Creative Bubble, Alec and Ryan discuss the magic behind making Ryan's no-budge arthouse-erotic indie "Elenore Makes Love"...the most profitable film in their library of films.

In this episode of The Creative Bubble, Ryan uses a Jungian active imagination exercise to dive into one (or more!) of his dreams, to explore his creative world with all it's beauty and anxiety...arriving at the notion that the experience of being present in the abstract alone is part of his creative process. It's okay not to know.

Signing off on the year 2023, Ryan and Alec have an extended conversation about their creative year and how they want to move in to the future...offering their own visions for different paths which yields to some interesting insights about the ways they truly want to work.

In this episode of Creative Bubble, Host Alec Balas discusses his new documentary project "Found Footage"...a deeply insightful exploration of the no budget horror films he made in college intercut with a ghost hunting documentary project he started and never finished...learning that diving into the projects that haunt us through a process of re working old material may help a creative discover new truths. 

In this episode of Creative Bubble, our host Ryan Balas explores the idea of "heavy meta", a genre and perhaps philosophy that an aesthetic is driven by the process making its way into the final product. By exploring your creative world and personal life, you can learn to tell your own story with cinematic techniques.

This is a 20 minute guided mediation for those with a creative spirit.  In this Episode, Ryan Balas takes a leap off the cliff and into a creative sea with a free association exploration on the heart of creativity and destruction.  Its great for a long drive or a slow walk or simply sitting in your room with your eyes closed. 

In this episode of "Creative Bubble", Editor Alec Balas discusses his organizing process for a large documentary project and the experience of co-editing the film.  He brings a decade of experience and insight into the editing room and his simple tips are both enlightening and strategic, offering tools to open your mind and think through your next big edit.  As always, the show is a mindful look at filmmaking and expands to a whole variety of creative disciplines, inspiring you to go and make something beautiful.