Countless sad stories of weak filmmakers who regrettably sold their integrity and allowed themselves to be manipulated by people just to get some money.
Megavisionkingdom.com the in-house training division of Megavision Pictures runs a very interesting program that teaches filmmakers, not only how to make films, but more importantly, how to attract money without losing their own identity. If the filmmaker loses identity and integrity,
he has nothing different to offer his starving audience. When this
happens he is no longer unique and his days are numbered.
Filmmakers, practically, in the new emerging global Bahamas film
market, might find it not a bad idea to establish their position before
forming close working relationships with foreign entities. In other
words you must establish a structure that identifies you and demonstrate
internal accountability. This is important for some very good reasons.
Make no mistake about it, whoever you ask for money will proposition
you with a list of conditions. The key is to find the company that
echoes the sentiments that you stand for. For example, if your films or
film festival is about spreading democracy, don’t expect the grant
organization that believes in dictatorship to fund you. You will have
to change your mind about the governing process and demonstrate that
change vividly before you can get the money.
How
many times have you seen filmmakers or film festival operators start
out with good intentions about producing movies that encourage good will
among all mankind. Very often we realize after a year or so, their
press release starts selling them as an extremist in either race,
creed, color or religion. This happens because real structure and
accountability was missing at the beginning. There was no clear mission
of conviction. To be continued on starsinparadise.com...
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