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Alternative Funding
How to Avoid the Commissioners and Still Get your Films Made
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The usual route to getting your factual programme commissioned is to:
- Get the channel brief and bang your head against a brick wall to come up with something that fits. And then hate yourself.
- Refuse to bow to lowest-common-denominator-populist-dumbing-down-reality-TV peddlers and continue to pitch your save-the-world documentaries. You never eat and your children are in rags.
There is a third way, based on the US model of indie film production, which involves finding funding partners who share your values, such as grant-making bodies, trusts and non-profit organizations who feel as strongly as you do that your story is worth telling.
Read Realscreen’s interview with Christo Hird of Dartmouth Films (ex-Fulcrum RIP) to find out how he’s doing it it.
© 2009 TV Mole
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