After years of making zero-budget shorts, I am all of a sudden directing the biggest project of my career with a $47,000 budget, a short film called 'Green Grass' about two D/deaf university students. It's a huge challenge, and the $200, $300, $500 budgets of all my previous self-made short films wasn't going to cut it this time, we needed to raise money, and a lot of it. And we did.
This is how we raised $47,000 for our short film, using a mixture of crowdfunding, brand partnerships, film funds, direct sponsors, and some clever thinking. As creatives, we sometimes like to think of art and business as separate things, but the reality is that there is an art to business, and a business in art.
If you want to check out more of the things I mentioned in the video, then here are some links below!
Skillshare: join.skillshare.com/film/?coupon=greengrass
Lingvano: linking.lingvano.com/greengrass
Our crowdfunding video: th-cam.com/video/2EHXkrJ7xCU/w-d-xo.html
Our crowdfunding page (we have taken off many of the perks now so it won't look the same as it did when we launched): www.indiegogo.com/projects/green-grass#/
Our instagram page: findinggreengrass