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The Art of Film Funding

The Art of Film Funding

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The Art of Film Funding Podcast is to educate and inform filmmakers. Author/Grantor Carole Dean interviews top professionals from the film industry for up-to-date information on film funding, production, marketing, and hybrid distribution. You will learn how to crowdfund, make an ask for funding, save money on your budgets, hear top attorneys discuss new US and state tax funding and stay abreast of current trends in the industry. Carole is President and Founder of From the Heart Productions, the non-profit dedicated to providing independent filmmakers the information and help they need to get their films funded. Carole started and runs the three yearly Roy Dean Film Grants giving $25,000.00 each in cash and goods and services. She is author of The Art of Film Funding, Alternative Financing Concepts, second edition.

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Our special guest today is Elizabeth Ai, an award-winning Chinese Vietnamese American filmmaker. Ai writes and produces independent feature films and branded content for companies like ESPN, VICE, and National Geographic Channels and her work has won an Emmy. She has produced numerous documentary and narrative features including A Woman's Work: The NFL Cheerleader Problem and Saigon Electric. Today we'll discuss her directorial debut, NEW WAVE, a hybrid feature documentary about 1980s Vietnamese New Wave and a hidden past, which premiered in competition at the 2024 Tribeca Festival. Her film was awarded a special jury mention for best new documentary director, with the jury praising her powerful and emotionally honest storytelling.
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Norman C. Berns (ncberns@gmail.com) has a 35-year track record of producing award-winning films, from features and documentaries to TV series and commercials. He was the line-producer on television's first super-gritty, ?reality?... more

Our guest today is a well known attorney in the film industry, Hal Corky Kessler from DEUTSCH, LEVY & ENGEL of Chicago. Corky regularly speaks on the business and legal aspects of feature film development, including tax... more

Our guest, Robert L. Seigel, is a NYC entertainment attorney who specializes in the representation of clients in the entertainment and media industries with an emphasis on fiction and non-fiction projects. Bob has over twenty years... more

Our guest Bill Woolery, ET and the Usual Suspects, is also known as "The Trailer Specialist." Bill will offer his wisdom on trailer editing from his 25 years of experience with movie studios .He is a donor to the Roy Dean film Grant and... more

Our guest Jilann Spitzmiller is a Documentary Producer, Director, Editor, Cinematographer and teacher whose award-winning work has been shown around the globe. She most recently won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism... more

Our guest, Tom Malloy, shares new information from BANKROLL II on film funding 2012, current status of independent film financing and international financing. We will cover where to find investors and how to close them. Plus... more

Film Grants, Crowd Funding, & Fiscal Sponsorship
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