I will tell you this much my friend. If everybody waited until they had experience and credibility before asking for a hand with something, many things would never get done. I think that if you are passionate about something, it is then ok to ask for money to help you learn more about it.
When I started getting my team together, I had neither experience or credibility, and yet that has not stopped people giving me something far more valuable then their money...they have pledged their time, and skills, and help. Some of these people, have far more experience then I, and they know how slim the odds are of us producing something epic, but they love that we are going to give it a try anyway. Its the Kiwi way. We look at the issues, we do our homework quietly on our own for a long amount of time, and then we get stuck in. And when we do that, the rest of the world normally stands back yelling "you idiot it can't be done" and then about half way through they go into silence as they realize the Kiwi is on track, and by the end, when the Kiwi achieves, they are all ready to shake the hand of their new hero and tell him/her that they were rooting for them the whole time. Now I have laid out my film story, I have laid out the homework I have done, I have laid out how I intend to do things. I have discussed my end goal...My question now is to you...
What if I make it? Do you want to be one of those people that changed their tune halfway through the race, or do you want to be the one that actually did believe in me from the beginning. Worst case scenario, I fail, you got to tut and tell yourself that I was an idiot and that you were right. But if I make it...If my first film is good, THATS a story you get to tell forever, that the NZ Director who made this film, that turned out to have quite a cult following, asked you directly for funding, and you embraced the spirit of adventure, and said yes to that guy, because you too are an adventurer. Thats the story you tell your kids at night to show them that believing in something is not wrong. You can tell them whatever you like, and it costs you just under $5 US to be able to tell that story. You saw someone trying to do the impossible, even you thought it couldn't be done, but you loved the idea that maybe it could, and that this guy was ballsy enough to try, and you sent that nobody from NZ around $5 US and that NZer took your money along with the pledges of the rest and he did it. He made a great movie, and you were a part of that. Without you and your $5, that movie may not have made it.
Do you want to tell that story?
Theres only one way for you to be able to tell that story. It starts with a pledge. The links above. Lets get you onboard.
