Hopefully, you see just how ridiculous those statements sound and those are stories you are never going to read! None of these methods will ever raise a dime in financing.
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What you will read, however, are things like:Â
- "I
Sold My Wedding Rings to Make a Movie" -Â Jim Cummings (Forbes)
- "Nobody would give us the money" -Â Martin Scorcese
- "It’s Been a Very, Very Long Road" - Ralph Fiennes
- “It was very, very hard to get financing for Precious.... Everybody kept saying no. My whole life was no. It was just a bunch of nos.” - Lee Daniels
We recently asked some
of you what was holding you back from financing your film.  Here's one answer we got, "I'm struggling of How to Raise more Fund without struggling"
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Without struggling???? (Said no filmmaker, ever!)
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You can alleviate the struggle by approaching financing the right way - by preparing for it. And you can make sure the deck is stacked in your favor to reach out the right people with every word and document carefully scripted to maximize
your chances of success. There is no reason to take the hard road when others have mapped out a successful path for you.Â
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We received this just last week, "I'm really grateful for joining "film proposals" and have used your materials to prepare our funding package. We will be funding our movie through a group in [country]! Once we have our funding in place (which should happen within the next 60 days), we will be in touch! Kudos to you and your team!"
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If you're actually serious about making your film, learn from some of
the best. Start reading about
what others did to finance their films. Who better to learn from than Steven Spielberg, Lee Daniels, Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater, Charlize Theron and more?Â
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