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INDEXAnyone have any good suggestions for finding a producer for helping with crowd funding campaign for a feature film when I (currently) can't pay?
7 years, 3 months ago - Darren Roberts
Hello everyone
My first short film "Is this life? starring Himesh Patel, is in the latter stages of post production, just getting music and sound done and working on casting a voice actor.
We're planning on using the short as a teaser for a feature film and we (myself and the director) are looking for a producer to help work out a budget (estimated £100-200k) put together a crowd funding campaign and find investors and then once funding is secured take on full producer duties.
The problem is the project was self funded so I can't offer anything beyond expenses for now but once funding is secured then it would be a paid position with a share of the profits.
I've put posts on here as well as mandy.com and stage32.com but not getting many replies or ones from people in other countries (not very practical) or without much or any experience as producers.
https://shootingpeople.org/production/work/crew/role/36770/true/1/Production
Any suggestions or interest in the role from producers, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any help
All the best
Darren
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7 years, 3 months ago - John Lubran
It's a big ask Darren. As a producer majoring in crowd funding and similar syndicated structures I'd want to know enough to weigh up the risk and reward balance. You need to pitch it to the producer if you want a one with proverbial legs. A possible start might be to create a basic website, really easy and free with WordPress; sell the projects quality with an inspirational narrative, illustrate it with photos and the short film you've made. Film yourself talking about the project. Provide links to any other work. If there's any attached talent in place sell them too. None of the foregoing cost much if anything. The website does not have to go live, in as much as it can be held on a discrete server only viewable with a password that you can provide to interested parties. When ready that website can evolve into the main crowd funding page on one or more facilitating platforms, such as Kickstarter or Indigogo. Raising a six figure sum for an independent movie is often an uphill struggle. It'll be easier if the project and the subject of the film can identify a special interest group, if any exist.
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7 years, 3 months ago - Darren Roberts
Thanks John, I'll certainly look into the suggestions you made. I already have a treatment and a script for the feature to show potential producers, I actually wrote the feature first then decided to do the short to try and get people interested.
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7 years, 3 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
Hi Darren,
Crowdfunding is HARD every man & dog thinks "ooh free money" and gives it a go. You need to stand out from the chancers and outright crooked, and that means really going to town on your homework. There's a bunch of stuff you can do before committing to engage someone on a commercial basis, and getting your own crowdfunding campaign to be the best it can be is one of them. SP has a relationship with at least one of the platforms who can really help you to get the best you can from them, and research these forums for tips from others. It pretty much seems to start with already having a crowd built who support you before asking for cash from strangers. That's a slow job, so start right now. It gives you something to make your bid for cash more interesting than the other 1000 "feature film from a short" campaigns.
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