back to work
so...back to work.
JOB is getting quite a lot of interest. It's exciting for our film, a product of love and savvy business, to get some interest from people in the business. That's all I can say about that right now.
Making a film is so much work and so much money and scrambling? Why do people do it?
Simply put, they just have to. There's a story they have to tell. So, they tell it. People keep asking me if we've "sold" the film yet. It's an active process, it's not one single step and yeah, we're working on it and we feel good about the possibilities.
When we decided to making jumping off bridges, we decided the whole process should be our way. Our way involves two simple guidelines that superseded anything else:
1. We only work with nice people.
2. We stick to our values.
We certainly looked at the commercial value of the film, and we looked at the revenue potential and our business plan was lauded and reviewed by some amazing business minds. We decided to go for a small market, the arthouse audience, the audience that doesn't mind being treated intelligently. The ones that like stories that stick with them awhile. We wanted to tell a story that we feel good about telling. That usually means a harder film to sell and we did the math and decided it was still something worthwhile to do, financially. We could pay for our film and we could get it out there and we could make it. It just doesn't get any better than that.
I guess we're just too sensible to spend all summer and fall working on a film that we don't care about. It's hard enough to work on something that is commercially an easy sell, but doesn't have your heart in it. We aren't capable of that. (I mean, we could do it, we could farm ourselves out to other projects and be kick ass crew, but for our own, very own film, it's just not enough.)
We want the people who worked on our film to love it as much as we did and to be proud they worked on it and want to come back and work on the next one. We want people to see something special after they spend their rental fee or pay their cable bill, something we made just for them, something truthful and honest and flawed.
Our plan is hatching.
file under: jumping off bridges
JOB is getting quite a lot of interest. It's exciting for our film, a product of love and savvy business, to get some interest from people in the business. That's all I can say about that right now.
Making a film is so much work and so much money and scrambling? Why do people do it?
Simply put, they just have to. There's a story they have to tell. So, they tell it. People keep asking me if we've "sold" the film yet. It's an active process, it's not one single step and yeah, we're working on it and we feel good about the possibilities.
When we decided to making jumping off bridges, we decided the whole process should be our way. Our way involves two simple guidelines that superseded anything else:
1. We only work with nice people.
2. We stick to our values.
We certainly looked at the commercial value of the film, and we looked at the revenue potential and our business plan was lauded and reviewed by some amazing business minds. We decided to go for a small market, the arthouse audience, the audience that doesn't mind being treated intelligently. The ones that like stories that stick with them awhile. We wanted to tell a story that we feel good about telling. That usually means a harder film to sell and we did the math and decided it was still something worthwhile to do, financially. We could pay for our film and we could get it out there and we could make it. It just doesn't get any better than that.
I guess we're just too sensible to spend all summer and fall working on a film that we don't care about. It's hard enough to work on something that is commercially an easy sell, but doesn't have your heart in it. We aren't capable of that. (I mean, we could do it, we could farm ourselves out to other projects and be kick ass crew, but for our own, very own film, it's just not enough.)
We want the people who worked on our film to love it as much as we did and to be proud they worked on it and want to come back and work on the next one. We want people to see something special after they spend their rental fee or pay their cable bill, something we made just for them, something truthful and honest and flawed.
Our plan is hatching.
file under: jumping off bridges
Labels: film
3 Comments:
I applaud you for taking the high road! ari
Thank god you and Kat found each other! You're two crazy birds of a feather, and with your good hearts and good souls, I'm certain that you will be successful in your endeavors.
Stacy, congratulations again on making such a wonderful documentary.
I spent a lot of time today hugging Homer, my dog. I've been trying to teach him to hug back, to no avail. His paws are just too short.
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