FILM FINANCE 101 Raising Money for Your Independent Film Form

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Jesse Harris, Filmmaker: They basically looked  at it and said Okay, Lucy Hale, this script,   we think it's this much money we can make off of  it. So this is what we'll offer to you. Even then   they don't give you the money to go make it. You  then have to still find someone else to usually   finance that contract, basically it's almost  like collateral you use to kind of then go make. Film Courage: If we took your pitch [for  Borrego movie], how much of it was about   the idea of the film and how much  was about the return on investment? Jesse: I think it's probably a 50/50 kind  of pitch in terms of the creative side and   the financial side. I mean obviously it depends  on who you're pitching. When it's an actor or   something like that it's all about the character  and all about the story. When it's an investor,   it's much more on the financial side but hopefully  the people you're working with do care about   making a good movie and that was the case