I’m not an attorney, and when you are raising money from investors, or taking loans to fund your project, you are going to need legal advice. But, these workshops can offer you insight and information from people who routinely fund media using a wide variety of sources, and you can learn ways to fund your projects without any investors or lenders at all. The information in these workshops is designed to help media creatives get a foothold on funding options. But more important than specific sources of funding or funding advice, will be the insights you gain into how how to make projects that are much easier to fund.
Spending more on a media project does not make it worth more to paying audiences or distributors. They best place to get your funding is, therefore, usually from your audience. Often, if you can’t find people willing to buy a book, pay to attend an event, or chip in money to support a project before its produced, you’ll find it hard to find those people after it is produced. So smart producers often do publish a book, produce a podcast, make a microbudget feature and leverage the the attention they get from that to fund bigger projects.
Do start with the Smart & Safe Creator Path because you need to get an understanding of many legal fundamentals to produce films. This will help you work more efficiently with lawyers you hire and all the media folks you’ll be working with. It will also help you avoid the thousands of scammers you will run into who pay upon people seeking media funding explicitly.