How to Work the Film & TV Markets

Part IV Co-Production Markets

Securing financing can often be the greatest hurdle for independents to overcome. The second-most enduring challenge that many creatives on the autonomous path experience is a feeling of isolation or lack of support — especially when they’re not in the community phases of production. The bookends of getting from concept, development and soft prep to funded pre-production — and then what do once the project is polished and out of post — can be grueling, lonesome journeys for the self-determined entrepreneur. A vast chasm has opened between studio franchise blockbusters and cookie-cutter, derivative genre pabulum at one end of the spectrum and self-indulgent clutter or tiny, indigenous, multi-media storytelling on ...