joshfolan

Every project is wildly different, but the primary financier was a guy who was a regular at a bar I bartended at many years ago. We kept in touch over the years, and he happened to have a few extra bucks when we were putting the project together. We were "greenlit" by way of a latenight text message where he was bored and sitting at a hotel bar on a work trip. "How much do you need to make this thing happen."

Matt?

hahahaha

Making films with at least some level of commercial value to them for mid-five-figure budgets is a CONSTANT carnival balancing act of spending and asking for/begging for favors. Key crew members are certainly paid day rates, and I always give everyone (down to the PA's) profit participation, but no one (us included) are changing tax brackets because of one of my films. That first feature film credit for someone's resume is a very powerful negotiating tool when crewing up a small feature, and I pitch it to them in very Roger Corman-esque fashion - "if you do this for me and we do a good job, you'll never have to work for me again." haha

Pretty damn solid. Definitely captures the "essence" of 70's porn. haha

Make as many TERRIBLE things as you possibly can afford (time and/or money) to. You can't learn how to do this stuff in a classroom, or from a book, or anywhere else other than physically doing it. That's not to say you shouldn't read as many books and listen to as many talented filmmakers talk about this stuff as you can, as you might avoid a few pitfalls, but you just flat out have to do it and see your wrongdoings on a screen in front of you to understand where you actually went wrong.