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INDEXHave you heard of The Monthly Film Fund?
9 years, 3 months ago - Phillip Perry
It is a new venture where Filmmakers can enter their Short Film scripts, along with £5, and at the end of each month, the best script wins 'the pot'. No catches, no tricks. Just a simple way of pooling cash for making Short Film. Visit: www.themonthlyfilmfund.co.uk
What do you guys think of this idea?
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9 years, 3 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
Who decides who wins? Transparency will be critical. Judging criteria need to be absolutely clear. If it's a vote by entrants, what's to stop people gaming the system? Is the best script the most ambitious (and correspondingly least affordable to shoot?)
Are there any platform/management fees?
If you get 50 scripts, £250 is still insignificant in terms of production budgets, and even 500 scripts a month is still £2500 which is a start (and that seems like a lot of entries a month!)
Can a previous winner enter again until they have the production budget?
I can see areas that would make me think twice to be honest.
9 years, 3 months ago - Phillip Perry
We are a team of Filmmakers / Industry professionals who simply came up with the idea of The Monthly Film Fund and decided to see if it would work. When it comes to choosing the best script, for now we will be picking them. As time goes on and we (hopefully) we get bigger, we intend to get 'guest' judges to choose, e.g known Directors, Writers and Producers.
In our experience of making short films, any money we can get our hands on is useful, even £250. Even £50! Our intention is to provide a helping hand, not to make tons of profit. We state on our website that we take a 10% administration fee from the grand monthly total. As you say, we would need to get a lot of scripts before we started getting rich out of this! Remember the entry fee is only £5.00. Entering isn't taking a huge risk!
9 years, 3 months ago - Chris Bogle
I'd want to know the judging criteria, more about the organisation/people behind this and the quality/credibility of the judges.