With four days left of principal photography for our film, "The Last Dance", we hope to be 'done' by end of May.
It has been h*ll trying to raise money locally; I'm sympathetic to job losses and business strife, which left me reluctant to 'ask' for donations or run a campaign. An in-person fundraisi...
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Seed and Spark looks cool but like always it seems to be only for US companies (hopefully I'm wrong)
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Donna Marie, seed and spark is for US citizens or bank account holders only. It’s the most successful platform for film, next is Kickstarter, then Indiegogo. But I use Indiegogo. And am always success...
Expand commentDonna Marie, seed and spark is for US citizens or bank account holders only. It’s the most successful platform for film, next is Kickstarter, then Indiegogo. But I use Indiegogo. And am always successful as it doesn’t really matter on the platform but on the campaign. However, that aside….. your first port of call should be to make a deal with a post production house. In fact this can be done before you even start shooting in future. I am not fully conversant with New York film tax credits if you shot it there. A quick google brought this up- "The Film Production Tax Credit is a 30% tax credit on qualified costs incurred in New York State for eligible productions. There are no caps for potential benefit for this credit". So you go to a suitable production house with your requests and they may (and many will do )most or all of the work without pay ( on contract) so that they get the payment from the tax credit. They need to know your accountants and that you will be speedy about this. I know UK ones that will do the work for either 0% or 25% and the rest recovered from uk tax credit. Ask around someone will be recommended to you. Good luck.
Thanks to every one of you who responded - we're not connected so it doesn't seem to tag you, but I appreciate it. Jane Sanger- the NYS Film Tax Credit applies only to budgets of $150K and more and it...
Expand commentThanks to every one of you who responded - we're not connected so it doesn't seem to tag you, but I appreciate it. Jane Sanger- the NYS Film Tax Credit applies only to budgets of $150K and more and it may have increased to $250K or more this year, plus the 'credit' only applies to below the line.
US and Canada. Like all movie things, Americans and Canadians have the pick of the litter and us poor UK schlubs get nothing!
Madeline Hombert that is good to know that Seed and Spark also applies to Canadians...but sadly not UK yet.