Project Ideas: February 2011 Archives
The old way of raising money to make a film consisted of one or a combination of all of the following:
- Use your credit cards, max them out, apply for more and max them out. repeat until deeply deeply depressingly in debt.
- Beg family members, close friends for money for you project.
- Lower everyone's expectations of getting paid, if they had any to begin with.
- Search for and pitch like crazy to investors. This requires connections to those with money.
- Apply for some art grants. This may be difficult unless you or your project fit into the requirements for the grant.
- Mortgage your home.
- Sell plasma at the blood bank.
None of those are really easy. Financing a film is not easy unless your budget doesn't require raising money (like if you think it may cost $400 to make and you already have that in the bank, and can spare it). But if your budget is more like $400,000 and you certainly don't have that lying around to spare, then it's time to get serious about raising money the old fashioned way, right?
Maybe not any more....
Continue reading Raising Money for a Film the New Way.
