In our previous Micro Budget Case Study, we saw how filmmaker Chad Haufschild mastered the art of the $10K budget range with his film WAKE THE WITCH. This week, we’re taking things one step further as we look at Steve Hudgins’ production company Big Biting Pig Productions who have produced a slate of 6 films [...]
In last week’s post I talked about Finding A Producer For Your Film, but what if you’re like me and you ARE the producer of your film – not the writer looking for a Producer, but the ‘buck stops here’ one responsible for raising financing for your film Producer? Well I wanted to share with [...]
The second Micro Budget Case Study in our series is Chad Haufschild’s WAKE THE WITCH. Similar to our first case study, the WAKE THE WITCH filmmakers also took advantage of traditional distribution deals to pursue profitability. However because they operated on a lower budget ($10K vs. $65K), WAKE THE WITCH has already achieved profitability, which is [...]
I’ve been promising you guys for a couple weeks that I was going to come up with some Micro Budget case studies – basically to showcase some of the filmmakers who are experiencing success at this budget level (success being defined as getting distribution for their films, achieving profitability, or both). If you attended my Virtual [...]
For many of you, selling your script to a Producer is your primary goal in the business. Maybe the thought of independently producing it yourself is unappealing (especially the part about finding money!)….or you’ve ‘been there, done that’ on a previous project and want to move up the ladder now …. or maybe you’re just [...]
Something that has really gotten my goat lately is this pervading attitude that traditional distributors are bad for you. There’s a whole bunch of people out there trying to tell you – “don’t give away all your rights to some distributor…keep control of your rights and self-distribute so the money comes to your pocket, not [...]
Well folks I’ve been pretty quiet here in IFB since AFM and for good reason. I’ve been hustling with follow up and trying to get actual deals signed. You see, getting ‘interest’ in your projects is one thing, but closing an actual deal is something else entirely. I’m happy to report though that since AFM [...]
Well, AFM just wrapped up and what a great market it was! For me personally I had a few extremely productive and ‘quality’ meetings (my theme this year was quality over quantity) that lead to almost all of the projects on my slate moving forward in one way or another. Good times! But you may [...]
In the 4th installment of our “Myth Busters” series, we’re going to look at another case study of packaging a sub $1 million budgeted film. Let’s face it, when you’re first starting out you have the double whammy challenge of putting ‘name’ cast in your film, but also you have to keep a modest budget [...]
I was working with a client this past week on the distribution of his completed film and I wanted to share his situation with you since I think it could help a lot of you… Well he’s in an interesting place this client. There are potential ‘offers’ floating around from some small theatrical/all-rights distributors but [...]
