Billie
01-30-2009, 02:27 AM
Hi everyone,
I'm currently making my third film as a guerilla filmmaker but facing many indie challenges. So, first to introduce myself -- I'm an Australian writer/director/producer/presenter/actress who doesn't make mainstream films. We were very inspired by Peter Broderick and other USA film people who said "just do it". So we have. Our first film was Finding Joy, a romantic comedy , ( launched Spiritual Cinema Circle and won an AFTI Best Actress Award) and second was Seven Days with Seven Dogs - a heart warming dogumentary about our family taking our seven rescued dogs on a well deserved and healing holiday. This has inspired dog lovers in Australian and USA to date. I guess our audience is in the alternative health, self help, mind/body/spirit category.
Right now we are making a doco series which requires travel and special effects and trying to figure out the sponsorship thing. So I'm looking for people with experience in raising money through sponsorship. First question seems to be "will it be on television" and the answer is "maybe". This answer probably isn't what a sponsor finds particularly comforting. So if you are savvy in this area, I would LOVE to hear from you as it seems to be the area I most need to learn about. I also probably need to learn how to sell my somewhat alternative ideas to mainstream. All thoughts welcome. Or find the places most likely to embrace my kind of films.
Finally, I'm looking for sources of knowledge for doing special effects with no budget at all!! I know lots can be done cleverly and I want to add spark to my doco. If you can help.. THANK YOU -- it's wonderful to be part of an indie community.
cheers
Billie (http://www.laughingowl.com.au)
I'm currently making my third film as a guerilla filmmaker but facing many indie challenges. So, first to introduce myself -- I'm an Australian writer/director/producer/presenter/actress who doesn't make mainstream films. We were very inspired by Peter Broderick and other USA film people who said "just do it". So we have. Our first film was Finding Joy, a romantic comedy , ( launched Spiritual Cinema Circle and won an AFTI Best Actress Award) and second was Seven Days with Seven Dogs - a heart warming dogumentary about our family taking our seven rescued dogs on a well deserved and healing holiday. This has inspired dog lovers in Australian and USA to date. I guess our audience is in the alternative health, self help, mind/body/spirit category.
Right now we are making a doco series which requires travel and special effects and trying to figure out the sponsorship thing. So I'm looking for people with experience in raising money through sponsorship. First question seems to be "will it be on television" and the answer is "maybe". This answer probably isn't what a sponsor finds particularly comforting. So if you are savvy in this area, I would LOVE to hear from you as it seems to be the area I most need to learn about. I also probably need to learn how to sell my somewhat alternative ideas to mainstream. All thoughts welcome. Or find the places most likely to embrace my kind of films.
Finally, I'm looking for sources of knowledge for doing special effects with no budget at all!! I know lots can be done cleverly and I want to add spark to my doco. If you can help.. THANK YOU -- it's wonderful to be part of an indie community.
cheers
Billie (http://www.laughingowl.com.au)
