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Truly Free Film

Training Our Producers For Failure

Let’s try this experiment: 

  1. Gather 5 producers:
  2. Ask them if they can do a budget and schedule for your film;
  3. Ask them what that means;
  4. When they tell you it will be a budget and schedule for the production and post of a film, tell them you are looking for a producer who can do one that will take the movie all the way through release;
  5. Want to bet that no a single one of them will know how to do that?
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Truly Free Film

An Endless Cycle Of Diminishing Returns

  • This is how it goes…
    • Decreasing global value of non-blockbuster filmed content
      • leads to decreasing funding which
      • leads to decreasing budgets
      • which leads to decreasing scope of execution
      • which limits content & style
      • which often reduces audience size & impact.
    • Lower budgets lead to 
      • lower fees which leads to
      • reduced access to international stars, which
      • lowers value estimates of the film
      • which reduces budgets and fees further,
      • which reduces creative individuals ability to support themselves in the field.
      • Which reduces availibility of quality product
      • Which reduces audience satisfaction and faith in the industry
  • Which gets us to the world we live in today.