Financing / Crowdfunding : Film Con 2018 by FilmCon Hollywood

Yet another failed convention....

Mike - Enlighten me please. I know nothing at all about this 'Film Con'. Thanx

Doug Nelson I didn’t attend but a LA friend tried to go this event and she didn’t make it due to a huge Anti Trump protest in downtown LA, close to Convention center. Traffic was a mess that day.

Another asinine and uninformed comment, Mike. We had 650 people show up for the first Film Con, which was triple what we expected.

I have to jump in here, too. This was the work of countless hours between Stage 32 and LA Acting Studios, which wound up being one of the largest, most informative and inspirational education conferences I've ever seen here in LA. We had almost 700 people attend who stayed for over 12 hours. We had panelists from Gersh, Netflix, TCA, Amasia Entertainment, Gravitas Ventures, Buffalo 8, Three Point Capital, Bondit Media Capital, attorney Lisa Bloom, Directors like Qasim Basir (A BOY. A GIRL. A DREAM., Sundance), J.T. Mollner (ANGELS & OUTLAWS, Sundance), Leonardo Carbucci (LEGENDARY AD, Cannes Official Selection), Alex Ferrari (THIS IS MEG, Hulu), ADs like Nilo Otero (DUNKIRK), Jason Roberts (JURASSIC WORLD, Actors like Emmy-nominated Jillian Bell (22 JUMPSTREET, SPLASH, WORKAHOLICS), Allen Maldonado (BLACK-ISH, THE EQUALIZER, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON), Anthony Montgomery (STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE) and Chevy Chase (CHRISTMAS VACATION). For someone who oversees education for Stage 32 for the past 5 years, Filmcon Hollywood was one of my proudest moments. To see so many people come together to teach and learn was awe-inspiring, so to say it was a "failed" convention is a careless comment and not fair for all of us involved, Mike. There is no need for that type of negativity here.

I wanted to share a video we did of the event for those who haven't seen it: https://www.stage32.com/media/2023169136279954663

I may have been in my cave when this was originally promoted. Will try to make the next one. Impressive turn out for a first run! Congrats Amanda Toney and Richard "RB" Botto. What was your biggest lesson/take away for the film industry, the Stage 32 mission, and crowdsourcing in general?

Thanks so much Landis Stokes! We announced it on the blog, promoted it on all of our social media for a month & sent out mailers to everyone who's opted in in the LA area: https://www.stage32.com/blog/Filmcon-Hollywood-2018. Oh...the biggest takeaway is that networking is 50% of your job. You can't rely on just talent. This business gets harder and harder every day and it's truly a fully committed effort from you to stay in the game. Like Jillian Bell said on the Filmcon panel "You'll get 1 million no's before you get your first yes...but don't give up" By the way, I checked out American Hikikomori on your profile - looks really intriguing. Congratulations on all your success!

Dan M - Traffic is always a mess in LA, good day/bad day - makes no difference.

Amanda - Thanx for posting the video and all the info. I may have been in the cave with Landis because I never heard a word about it. I'll try to make it next year. Sure didn't look like "another failed convention" to me. Please keep up the grueling hard work.