Independent Film Production
Crafting compelling stories that resonate with audiences worldwide through independent cinema.
2026 | Thriller | 77m
Dir. Skinner Myers. Post‑production.
2025 | Thriller | 85m
Dir. Josalynn Smith. Tribeca 2025.
2016 | Drama | 83m
Dir. Matthew A. Cherry. SXSW. Shot on iPhone.
2016 | Drama | 80m
Dir. Heidi Saman. LA Muse Award.
2013 | Comedy | 93m
Dir. Neil Drumming. Election‑night Brooklyn.
2025 | Horror | 11m
Dir. Sharmila Ray. Sidewalk 2025.
2023 | Thriller | 17m
Dir. Elodie Yung. Warsaw IFF.
2022 | Horror | 6m
Dir. Michelle Krusiec.
2022 | Drama | 10m
Dir. Tiffany Frances.
2022 | Documentary | 10m
Dir. Tiffany Frances.
2022 | Drama | 8m
Dir. Vernon Jordan III.
2021 | Drama | 20m
Dir. Sharmila Ray.
2020 | Drama | 16m
Dir. Marie Jamora.
2017 | Drama | 16m
Dir. Marie Jamora.
2016 | Drama | 9m
Dir. Keely Weiss.
2011 | Fantasy | 13m
Dir. Neil Drumming.
Budgeting services for independent filmmakers, producers, and grant applicants.
You've got the story. The vision. Maybe even a shooting window or grant deadline. What you need now is a realistic, professional budget that speaks the language of funders, collaborators, and SAG reps.
Whether you're prepping for a grant application, building a finance-ready pitch deck, or just trying to figure out what's actually possible, I can help.
I'm a veteran independent producer with decades of experience budgeting and producing award-winning features, shorts, and festival favorites — from $50K quick-turn projects to $2M narrative films distributed by ARRAY and Gravitas. I've seen what works, what breaks, and what gets you funded.
Accurate line-item budgets tailored for:
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Already have a budget? I can tighten it, simplify it, or rework it to fit your new reality — without killing your creative vision.
Need a polished top sheet or budget summary for a pitch deck or visual treatment? I can deliver it quickly, with style.
Navigate premiere requirements, submission timelines, and budget for your festival run. I'll help you understand the financial implications of your festival strategy.
Need to talk through your production path, union approach, or budget range? I offer hourly sessions for filmmakers at any stage.
| Short Film Budget | $500 |
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Feature Budget Package
Complete line-item budget with assumptions |
$1,000 - $3,000 |
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Budget Top Sheet Only
For pitch decks and lookbooks |
$300 |
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Consulting Calls
Strategy, planning, or troubleshooting |
$75/hour |
Rush delivery available • Fiscal sponsor & grant compliance expertise
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Email Me to Get StartedTwice Told Films is a boutique independent production company based in Los Angeles formed by veteran film producer Matthew Keene Smith that focuses on original stories and director-driven narratives.
Our productions have been showcased at leading festivals around the world including Tribeca, SXSW, Slamdance, Blackstar, ABFF, Outfest, BFI Flare, Los Angeles, and Warsaw International.
The aim is simple: bold voices, urgent stories, never ask permission.
Currently in post-production. Coming 2026.
PAULA reconnects with her high school crush, SLOANE, the summer after college and they embark on a road trip from St. Louis, Missouri to California. As their journey progresses, Paula realizes she doesn't know her dream girl as well as she thought.
An Uber driver clocks in to work on New Year's Eve, the busiest night of the year. The night takes him all across the city as he transports nine different groups of passengers who help him come to terms with life changing news.
NAMOUR is a film about why life can feel like it's passing us by. Chronicling the unraveling of Steven Bassem (Karim Saleh), a valet driver for a trendy Los Angeles restaurant caught between his dead-end job and the demands of his Arab-American immigrant family.
NAMOUR made its world premiere at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival, where Egyptian-American filmmaker Heidi Saman garnered the festival's LA Muse Award.
Written and directed by Neil Drumming and set in Brooklyn on the eve of President Obama's history-making election, three former members of a once promising hip-hop crew cross paths again to discover that some things never change.
Former frontman John, once known as Big Words, is now a working class guy who raps only to himself. James is a publicist living with his boyfriend, far removed from the days when he rhymed about getting girls. While DJ Malik still spins records with a longing for the glory days. Together again, the friends reckon with dreams deferred and dreams yet to come.
A woman behind on her student loan payments is haunted by debt collectors, but one collector wants to harvest something more than just money.
A Cambodian woman, carrying a tragic secret, comes to the United States to work in an illicit massage parlor in hopes of making a better life for her family.
Premiered at the Warsaw International Film Festival.
A bullied Chinese American girl conjures the Nian, a monster from New Year folklore — a mythological creature said to eat bad children.
On the day of her daughter's seventh birthday, a woman whose life has been permanently altered by a traumatic accident at the hands of a caregiver finds herself in a dark and uninhibited confrontation with that same caretaker.
In the heart of Compton a beauty salon has held space for community, care, and connection across generations. Temple Beauty celebrates the women who built and sustained that space.
The lesson is love: when Pop Pop and his grandson are sent on an afternoon errand, their family is tested by an unexpected encounter that asks what it means to see and be seen. One Magenta Afternoon is an afroqueer family story.
While drifting through Arizona, James encounters Sita — a woman whose devotion, desire, and spiritual practice challenge his assumptions and through intimate encounters show him a new path.
Maya is a cover band singer in a Las Vegas casino-hotel lounge trying to connect with her daughter who is growing up in the Philippines without her. Wrestling between her passion for songwriting and becoming a pop-culture photocopy for an un-listening audience, she realizes that music — the one thing that keeps them distant — can also bring them closer together.
Flip the Record follows Sophie, a Filipino-American aspiring DJ in Los Angeles, as she navigates family expectations and her own artistic ambitions. Through the lens of the city's underground music scene, the film explores identity, tradition, and the courage to forge your own path.
An experimental triptych that re-edits the same short narrative three ways — shifting perspective, tone, and meaning with each pass.
At its core, a story of Clem and Jules and the fragile ways we try (and fail) to connect. Commissioned by TRANSPARENT creator Joey Soloway, the film explores form and identity through its evolving cuts.
A digital ghost story about the artifacts we leave behind. When a coder discovers fragments of his late partner embedded across an abandoned drive array, he begins re-assembling her in high resolution.
