Movie Money CONFIDENTIAL

Description

This feature length documentary is inspired by the best-selling book Filmmakers & Financing by Louise Levison, who formerly taught film financing at UCLA in Los Angeles and is the author of several business plans for successful independent films. Writer-director Rick Pamplin, a Levison client, approached her about adapting her book into a film and telling on camera the story of how she created the business plan for The Blair Witch Project (the most profitable independent film ever made), and others such as Salma Hayek's The Prophet.Viewers will learn the secrets of Hollywood and independent film financing from industry insiders - actors, producers, screenwriters, directors, potential and actual film investors, professional fundraisers - and the untold story of funding The Blair Witch Project. Filmmakers conducted over 60 on-camera interviews and shot almost 100 hours of footage to Reveal inside information offers insight into funding films, how it's done, what works, what doesn't, how to find and attract investors. An original, provocative, entertaining expose of long-held trade secrets, previously unavailable, with real-life war stories from those on the front lines of film financing. Movie Money CONFIDENTIAL pulls back the curtain to look for the first time into Hollywood and independent filmmakers (from all over) and how their films actually get financed.It is essential viewing for film students, filmmakers, investors and movie fans everywhere. The film has the distinction of being one of the last onscreen appearances of box office legend Burt Reynolds, filmed six months prior to his untimely passing.

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Rick Pamplin

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