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expenses. Even if your film is a masterpiece the distributors will smell blood and know you are desperate for any money. You'll still be in debt after you sell the film. Maybe you believe in your film so much you won't care. If you've got a great script, the talent and knowledge nothing should stop you from making your film. Money is actually one of the easiest components to find. Much easier than finding the great screenplay. Think small. Making a truly great short could just get you a festival prize, which could lead to getting noticed, which could get you a million downloads of your film on the Internet, which could get you really noticed, which could make you famous. If you're famous is much, much easier to raise money. What is an angle you could use to appeal to a special interest group. Churches, ethnic groups, professional organizations can sometimes be convinced to finance a film if the story has something that appeals to a leader in the group. Go after small amounts of money. If you need $5 million its much better to get 50 people to put up $100,000 than one person to put up the whole amount. A single investor with that much money into the deal is going to watch your every move and hire people to second guess your every move. Creating your dream is hard enough without that kind of pressure. Get ready for the money. Form a production company. Choose a name. Open a business checking account. Get a business license. Open a PayPal account so you can take credit cards. Create business cards, letterhead, a press kit and that website. You need a phone, fax, e-mail but you don't need to rent an office. When you get money from investors sign a promissory note. Write in the terms for what interest you will pay and that all payments will be from profits on the film. Product Reviews FormsGuru.com This site has all kinds of free legal forms. Promisory notes, release forms, etc. http://www.formsguru.com/ The Filmmaker's Basic Library has all the top-rated filmmaking resources. It's not hard to set up a simple partnership or just be honest and ask your investors to donate money, time, supplies or equipment. The usual route is to work on deferral. This means they will get paid some amount, either a fixed sum or percentage, IF the movie makes money. As soon as you get some money hire a lawyer to set up a some legal form for your company. You can do a sole proprietorship which really doesn't need a lawyer, but the most popular form is the Limited Partnership. A full corporation is probably more than you need. Cash isn't the only thing you're looking for. Services, labor, food and equipment are just as important. On a very low-budget film getting enough of these non-cash items might make your film. You know someone who has some of the equipment you need. Convince them to let you borrow it. Talk to the owner of your favorite restaurant. Ask them if they would like to support the arts. If you must use your own money, and you really believe in your film, how much can you lower your expenses? Can you take a second job to raise more money? Your vacation time is when you'll be paid to do the production. If you have any equity in your house you've got a great source of financing. An equity loan could get you $20,000 at a very reasonable interest rate. You can make a feature film for $20,000. Grants are usually only available for non-commercial and documentary projects. It is usually a waste of time to try to talk people into investing in your film. Tell them about the project and if they're interested they'll tell you. Doctors and dentists are professionals with good cash flows so everyone goes for them. Find some accountants and financial planners and make friends with them. They're looking for unusual investments for some of their more affluent and daring clients. Wealthy investors might have children with movie ambitions. Law firms often have an attorney who specializes in limited partnerships. Make a believer of that person and invite them onboard as your Executive Producer. Many lawyers are wealthy or know where to find money. If they find most of the money be prepared to share any income 50-50 with them.
The talent you hire can get you money. Well known directors and actors know people with money. If they believe in your project they'll find the money. Put on a presentation, rent a movie theater during the day when it's not showing movies. Bring in all your potential angels. Project your trailer, introduce your cast and director. Project enormous enthusiasm and confidence. Don't you have as much right as anyone to succeed? Product Reviews The Complete Film Production Handbook If you could only own one comprehensive book on the business of filmmaking (as opposed to the art and technology of making a film) this is the one it should be. Now in an updated and expanded third edition, The Complete Film Production Handbook by film production expert Eve Light Honthaner is a comprehensive, resource packed instructional reference enhanced with essential "need-to-know" ins and outs of the film business, including checklists, example schedules for pre-production and post-production, guidelines for insurance policies, talent management, immigration details applying to actors and other film industry workers crossing national borders, forms used for the Screen Actor's Guild (among others), basic production forms and deal memos, and a companion CD-ROM containing numerous useful documents in easily printable form. A "must-have" for anyone seriously considering producing a film for the first time, The Complete Film Production Handbook is a practical, accessible, and essential reference for novice filmmakers, and is a highly recommended resource for experienced movie producers, too. The Filmmaker's Basic Library has all the top-rated filmmaking resources.
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