Good stuff Ivan and Sarah. I (David) happen to know quite a few filmmakers who spent a lot of time trying to get funding but never did so trying to get such funding can be a total waste of time. Yet those filmmakers have made films which have gotten them a following and even cinema releases. My own films gained official distribution with various distributors for a period with no public funding behind them. So it's not absolutely necessary to have public funding to get your film 'out there'. Maybe the best thing about public funding is that you will have money to make your film. You will be able to pay your cast and crew etc. And it's better to have the money upfront than to be trying to recoup it after you've made the film. Too many of my films (and too many other indie films) have made no money even though they gained distribution. And that's not because no one was interested in them. As we know, distributors who will take indie films tend to have only one interest in mind: making money for themselves not the filmmaker. PS. Suggest dropping the side angle in your videos. It doesn't look good and it doesn't add anything. Everything else is good. Cheers!
Thanks for the comment, David. We agree the best thing about gaining public funding is actually having money to pay all the various expenses when making a film, including paying cast and crew. It just makes things so much easier. But as you said, sometimes chasing funding is a time-wasting endeavour as some films are simply not going to attract government support no matter what they do (and this an indictment of the quality of film or filmmaker). In that case, going out and doing it yourself is the best thing you can do as actually making a film, support or not, is a huge achievement and finding success without funding is definitely possible. Just a harder road. PS. Yeah, the side angle didn't work on this video. Just makes it more hassle to film too so don't think we will be repeating that setup.
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Good stuff Ivan and Sarah. I (David) happen to know quite a few filmmakers who spent a lot of time trying to get funding but never did so trying to get such funding can be a total waste of time. Yet those filmmakers have made films which have gotten them a following and even cinema releases.
My own films gained official distribution with various distributors for a period with no public funding behind them. So it's not absolutely necessary to have public funding to get your film 'out there'.
Maybe the best thing about public funding is that you will have money to make your film. You will be able to pay your cast and crew etc. And it's better to have the money upfront than to be trying to recoup it after you've made the film. Too many of my films (and too many other indie films) have made no money even though they gained distribution. And that's not because no one was interested in them.
As we know, distributors who will take indie films tend to have only one interest in mind: making money for themselves not the filmmaker.
PS. Suggest dropping the side angle in your videos. It doesn't look good and it doesn't add anything. Everything else is good. Cheers!
Thanks for the comment, David. We agree the best thing about gaining public funding is actually having money to pay all the various expenses when making a film, including paying cast and crew. It just makes things so much easier. But as you said, sometimes chasing funding is a time-wasting endeavour as some films are simply not going to attract government support no matter what they do (and this an indictment of the quality of film or filmmaker). In that case, going out and doing it yourself is the best thing you can do as actually making a film, support or not, is a huge achievement and finding success without funding is definitely possible. Just a harder road.
PS. Yeah, the side angle didn't work on this video. Just makes it more hassle to film too so don't think we will be repeating that setup.