Recent content by film88

Don't get discouraged. It can still be done. I remember as a child, reading with my dad "Los Hooligans" in Austin, Texas. And I clearly remember the buzz he had created with that film when my dad and I saw him on a local cable access channel (wow those were the days) "premiering" that film in...

I just read Blade Jones' thread and commented on it regarding product placement but it got me to thinking about financing. This is always one of the most difficult areas of film making (especially when you do not have any). I was wondering if we could build a list in this thread of suggested...

ABSOLUTELY GET PERMISSION!!!! Sorry about the all caps but you do need to get permission. Can you imagine if an accident happened? The way I always found out who to talk to was either go to City Hall. Claudia

This is very good advice. As a film financier and film producer, I always took this road. I once had a distributor tell me he could not distribute a film we made because of several scenes in which the actors were using bad language and there was a Pepsi product displayed prominently in the...

This made me smile :) Claudia

Hello Blade, I have funded several indie projects in Mexico and Texas and I have never been able to get substantial money from "product placement"; and I was using well known talent (in the Mexican productions); I had one product placement company tell me that they only dealt with high profile...