Film Financing and Funding Feb. 2016 | Page 5

Introduction These days, there are more avenues than ever before to turn your precious feature into a reality. You've decided you want to make a movie: a short, feature or documentary. You most likely also have a ball-park figure of how much money you'd like to have in your jeans to make this happen. In making sure that your work is credit worthy, there are of course many things that you need to consider before you attempt to get the funding you need. At the same time, I can’t stress enough how important it is to have faith in what you are doing. In the words of writer/director Duke Roth Simons whose experience you will learn from later in this e-book, “People who win Oscars are humans like us, there is no difference. Just be patient and let everybody turn you down, because there’ll be 99s no’s and 1 yes…you just need to look out for that yes.” As we’re all about making sure you find that yes, we’ve compiled a short series of posts from our blog to answer all of your questions about funding your film. 4