“Torontonian Kris Booth had made six short films since graduating from film studies at Ryerson University nine years ago, but as of late 2008, he still had not managed to break into “the club” – his term for people who have managed to make a full-length feature film.
Unable to raise enough money from various funding agencies, the 33-year-old was chatting with his wife last summer about this problem when she pointed out they’d recently flown his mom to Vancouver on their pocket change. So why couldn’t he use the same strategy here?”
Read this article from The Globe and Mail.
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It’s funny that this article should come up right now as we just came to the same conclusion: the quickest way to get funding for our movie is to ask for family and friends donations. We have set up a website to do just that. Reading that someone else got his movie done that way is really inspirational. Hope it works for us, too. Here is the link to our project’s website: http://basilonefilm.wwangle.com/.