With Hollywood Collapsing, Why is this the Perfect Time to Invest in your First Feature Film?

I get it.  The future of film looks bleak.  With the distribution system broken, production fleeing Hollywood and AI taking over creative work, why throw good money – and time and focus and effort - after bad?

Because there will always be an audience for new and exciting films, and with Hollywood on the ropes, independent filmmakers will be one of the few resources for unique, crafted content.  Look at how many independent films scored in the last round of awards – Anora, The Brutalist, The Last Showgirl, A Real Pain.  Filmmakers who have tested their scripts, learned how to pitch their films, and created all the materials needed to move forward, will thrive.

But it requires collaboration and new skills.  You can’t do it alone.  Scratch that – you shouldn’t do it alone.  Because filmmaking is more than an art – it’s manufacturing.  And it requires a design, a production plan, financing, and a team.  And we can help you create the materials required to attract all that.

In the last ten years, From Script to PreProduction has brought 50 female filmmakers through the 6-month process – developing loglines, synopses, pitches, lookbooks, schedules, budgets and a social media presence. 

Many of them discovered that the features they’d written required budgets they were not yet able to raise.  But they were unphased.  Why?  Because they’d mastered the tools and used them to reverse engineer scripts at budgets they could raise. To date, our filmmakers have gone on to make 7 features that have all been distributed:

T-11 Incomplete (Suzanne Guacci)

Artist Unknown  (Cinder Chou)

Happy Ending  (Joosje Duk)

White Goddess (Eugina Gelbelman/Yunah Hong)

Boca Chica (Gabriella Moses)

Another Happy Day (Nora Fiffer/Jessie Holder-Tourteloptte)

Ramona at Midlife  (Brooke Berman)

One Must Wash Eyes (Amanda Konkin)

…as well as a dozen award-winning shorts and two more features going into production.  

Applications open August 8th on Film Freeway.  Find out more at fs2p.org.

Use this time to move forward.  It’s never a mistake to invest in yourself.