Give Each Project the Space It Deserves
My Films is a new page type: your projects presented individually, each with an image, a synopsis, your role and where it can be watched. It sits alongside your credits rather than replacing them.
The gap between a credit and a project
A credits list is a scannable record. It is the right format for casting, who want to check a fact quickly, and the wrong format for anybody who wants to know what the work was actually like.
A line saying "Feature, 2025, Supporting" tells a visitor nothing about a film you spent four months on. A page with a still, three sentences and a trailer tells them a great deal, and it is the difference between a site that lists your career and a site that shows it.
What each project holds
- Title, year, format and your role.
- A still, or a poster.
- Two or three sentences: what it is, and what you did in it.
- A trailer or a clip.
- Where it can be seen: a festival, a streaming service, a link.
- Key collaborators, with links where they have their own sites.
Be selective
Six projects with real material beats twenty with a placeholder image. Anything you cannot illustrate should stay on your credits list, where a line is a perfectly good representation of it.
The reader's assumption is that anything given a whole page is something you are proud of. Give a page to something thin and you have made a claim you cannot support.
Naming the collaborators is worth doing
Two reasons. It is generous, and generosity is remembered in an industry this small. And it makes your page findable by people searching for the director or the production rather than for you, which is a real source of traffic. Our older piece on a collaborators and credits page makes the same case.
Related
Projects read from the same records as your credits, so a project page and a credit line never disagree. If a production needs a site of its own, that is film project websites. For the chronological view of everything, see the timeline.
Create your free actor website and give one project a proper page.
