The Movie Revolution

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The Hungry Artist

Content creators are turning into filmmakers, and filmmakers are turning into content creators. Forget about the starving artist, this is for Hungry Artists. Each week I share tips & ideas on how to find funds, grow your audience, and earn a revenue. From inspiration, motivation, to actionable activation.

What is The Movie Revolution and who is a Hungry Artist?

Indie filmmaking isn’t just about telling stories. It’s about thinking differently. Making things with limited resources. Building something real, even when no one’s watching.

The movie revolution is about experimenting, self-producing, sharing the process, and slowly growing an audience that actually cares. Filmmakers treating their work like it matters. Not just creatively, but practically. Finding money. Getting the thing made. Getting it seen. Building a community that grows with you.

And Hungry Artist? That’s the bigger idea.

A Hungry Artist isn’t just a filmmaker, it’s anyone making something out of nothing. A writer. A musician. A game designer. A comic book creator. You're not starving, you're hungry for more. For progress. For freedom. For the next step. You care about the craft, but you're also figuring out how to build a life around it.

If that’s you, you’re in the right place.

Welcome to The Movie Revolution.
Welcome, Hungry Artist.

Who is Tyler M. Reid?

👋 I’ve spent the last 20 years making things, trying things, and figuring it out as I go. Most of the time, it’s been film, sometimes it’s been teaching, event producing, screenwriting, consulting, or just chasing creative curiosity.

I’ve worked in features, reality TV, music videos, live events, docs, and commercials across the U.S., India, and Sweden. Some of it glamorous, most of it not. I’ve taken wrong turns, switched lanes, and kept going even when it was hard or unclear. That’s the throughline, keep learning, keep building, keep showing up.

I started in film school Kentucky for undergrad, Georgia for grad. I hustled onto professional sets while still in school, first as a grip, then into music videos, gradually working with bigger artists. I launched the 48 Hour Film Project in Savannah. Got pulled out of a PA role and into the audio department on a reality show by a sound supervisor who took a chance on me.

Then life pivoted, my wife got a job in India, and we moved. That led to teaching media at a local college, freelancing in unscripted TV development for a NYC company, and diving deep into screenwriting, not to become a writer, but to better understand the craft.

In NYC, I jumped between casting, packaging, live events for the Producers Guild and YouTube, producing branded docs and ads, and consulting in Ethiopia. I directed and produced over two dozen short films somewhere in there, too.

Eventually we moved to Sweden. I shifted into indie film production management on $2M–$6M projects. Always keen to learn and try, I worked at a film financing company, then worked with virtual production. Now I'm back out to producing again, but that's only a piece of the picture. A Hungry Artist like you, I'm also writing a novel, and working with my wife helping to bring her illustrations to products and into children's books.

I'm keeping one eye on the path in front of me and the other on the horizon for other opportunities.