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 [...]

In the last few case studies in our “Myth Busters” series, we’ve looked at films in the $1-$5 million range. But what about films in the ultra low budget range ($250K or less)? Most people argue with me til the cows come home that at these low budget levels, name cast are ‘impossible’. OK sure, [...]

After a lengthy discussion on Facebook about the pros and cons of Crowd Funding a film, I figured it was a good idea to offer up some constructive and practical advice on how to actually improve your shots at reaching your crowd funding goals. These tips are based on my experience watching what works and [...]

As a follow up to my previous post on the topic of Keeping It Real, I want to address some of the comments I received on the following statement I made: ”  if you’re independently financing a film without cast and pre-sales from distributors, don’t think you can raise any money over a few hundred thousand and [...]

Is it me or has fall crept up on us? It’s like this – we’re now in September and basically have about 3 ‘usable’ months left in the year (once you take into account the holidays) to get our sh*t together and get our projects off the ground with some semblance of momentum going into [...]

I’ve gotten a few questions this week from producers are are going through the new On-Demand version of my Distribution In Reverse course. Basically, the crux of the question goes something like this: “Stacey, I’m making a film in the $1-$3 million budget range and as I’m trying to work backwards and ‘back into’ my [...]

We’ve done a lot of talking on this blog about financing $1-$5 million films, but yesterday on the Film Specific Facebook page I received a question about how to finance Micro Budgets, specifically in the $500K and under range. What a great question…. so let’s explore it shall we? First of all, the person who [...]