Your Stage : Looking for Film Financier by Ana Turbides

Just a suggestion you need to say your budget, genre, logline and a short synopsis, a bit about yourself before I think anyone will enquire.

Not to mention distribution, ROI, and other financial securities.

Great enthusiasm! My advice would be to pare the script down to a 10-minute short that can be shot for a few hundred $ and ask friends and family for their financial support.

Definitely give more details as Jane Sanger suggested.

I am 29 years old. I'm originally from Boston, Ma and Superior Six, which is the title of my film, is something I've been woking on for years ever since I was about 12 or 13 years old. Started off as a book and over the years made an evolution into a worked up script. The genre is Action, it is a superhero movie. Logline: A team of five superhero siblings must turn to their estranged older brother, Peter after their mother mysteriously disappears. Peter's then forced to come back to the life he swore had left behind many years prior. In reuniting with his siblings he must deal wth their growing dysfunction and trying to find their mother while battling an acidic villain of their own. Together the six of them will discover the power of their destiny and the strength of their siblinghood. Budget is a whooping $7,321,500.60

Anyone who is interested, please let me know. I also have a website where you can donate funds, spotfund.com and you can just hit the search button and type in Superior Six and donate whatever you choose. Or if anyone is a financier or has a connection with one please let me know, thanks.

$7.3M is a ridiculous budget for a first feature. Especially during a pandemic with limited movie theater opportunities. Jordan Peele, Damien Chazzele, Barry Jenkins, James Wan, Lulu Wang, Tarantino, and just about every first-time feature director made their movies for way less.

But anything is possible. Hire a tax acct and a lawyer before you start soliciting amounts over $10,000 U.S. dollars.

Director I'm doing script consulting for has his first solo feature greenlit at approx. $300K (he might co-finance for more)...I cant reveal details but the script has like over dozen of characters and multiple indoor/outdoor scenes, I won't even mention props and stuff...long story short, Dan's right...

Kiril Maksimoski, put me in contact with that director if you can.

Ana Turbides, please educate yourself on the business of filmmaking.

John Ellis my first oscar will speak for itself, anything is possible.

Ana Turbides There's this script "Bad Dog", written in '92, sold in '97 get to be made nowadays-onwards, and Spielberg himself influenced....u better be ready for this run, If you know what I'm saying...

Aside that, director I'm working with accepts only domestic scripts. I know the guy more than five years, even I have to translate him everything I've got in English if I wanna get a read...

Ohhh, I'm ready for the run though! :)

I made my first film for £250,000 about $300,000 and I am afraid unless you have huge family or friend funds the likelihood is you won’t get those funds you seek. This is because first you have to make successful shorts that win awards, then you move to low budget features. If you have private money you can skip stage 1. Then you move up to low mid budget then the bigger budgets. Why? Because investors who are very thin on the ground want to see what you’ve done, that is has been successful ie their money has had a return. Why should anyone invest when they just have your say so that it’s great?

Alternatives are that you actually properly attach and are not in talks with actors in the top 10,000 IMDb. And an experienced director is an added bonus or it’s already been a successful book. Because where is your huge budget going? It’s no good saying it’s going on Jennifer Lawrence etc if she’s not attached.

Personally my next film is on £1 mill and I have a tv series in development for £5 mill an episode but you see it’s stepping up, stepping up.

Jane Sanger, I understand but why is no one talking about the fact that the first Rocky movie was made on a $1.1 million budget and Sylvester Stallone hadn't made movies before. Rocky was his first feature film and he wrote produced and directed it. It went on to become not just a movie for the ages but also one of the most successful franchises in pop culture and an iconic one too. He had never made a movie in his life but He wrote a script that no none believed in at first and he was broke trying to make money. It wasn't until Rocky that he had his first big break and it made him successful. Someone took a chance on him not just because he said it would be great but because he believed in it too. And the rest is history.

Rocky wasn't Stallone's first film - it was Lords of Flatbush, and he gained a lot of critical acclaim and press for the role.

Plus, he'd been around Hollywood for a couple of years, taking small roles and making connections.

Stallone didnt direct or produce Rocky, but Stallone did get sued/and settled privately for "stealing the story."

I do understand your extreme passion and adventure to jump into making your dream come true film. Whether it wins Oscars or any film festival is actually secondary, it's a bonus to win awards in reality. Whether it is SciFi or what Sylvester Stallone did or anyone did doesn't truly matter. But the reality is like Jane Sanger or others are putting out there is objective thinking from the Producer's point of view.

Say you are a Producer who got 7M. Now I and 10 more new filmmakers,(I got a small Whatsapp and Telegram group of filmmakers we run to share how to make new Indie art cult films) now came up to you with great passion with 10 different Sci-Fi films budgeting ranging $5M each. Each one is fresh and new, so whom would you believe and finance? Each one of us can bluff saying it's quite amazing, profitable, new, fresh, blockbuster, unique, twisted, or even say this gender or race supporting the film. Considering all 10 filmmakers are fresh new into the film business and don't have any portfolio at all, will you fund and get more producers you have in connection to jump into it to help us make films? No. . You won't. Because you don't know me or my filmmaker friends and haven't seen any work we did before.

What I'm giving you an example, happens quite often to many producers and a lot to Indie filmmakers who have low budget scripts like say $20000 to $50k. still, they suffer to even get funded. And there are many who reach to producers with a $5 to 10M budget each day every day too and for them, it's like they have seen a lot more than we think our script is the best to get financed. That's the issue.

The point everyone makes is, it's not just passion and script which works. Surely good story, a very good fine-tuned script, an understanding of how economics/financial aspects of the film is, and more important, whats your uniqueness is in your story/script which you have shown in earlier works of short films if you are new into business or some work you being part off with existing industry teams, and communication which is at ease to build upon it. This is more of a person's portfolio which is what draws attention to even make them care for our scripts to be read to even fund a tiny budget for a short film, forget even getting feature at first shot. It's tough.

Sylvester Stallone in fact acted in the Porn industry out of struggling to survive at one point and it was one of his dark days and he still feels sad low of those tough days but we tend to see him at the later stages of success. Even for instance J K Rowling too struggled a lot more than we think after her success. So no one is saying we all should go through struggle alone, some are lucky for sure, but there is some process that producers look at to pick your script. So check what in America that process is. That's what everyone is trying to help you to see through. I tried to elaborate it that's all.

The harsh reality. Much rather hear it now than after I mortgage your house. LOL