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Tis' the Season of Giving
“ ‘Tis the Season of Giving ”
What does that mean exactly?
What does that mean exactly?
When I first moved to America in the 80’s, I happened to visit New York City during the garbage strike. There were piles of garbage as high as a house! It smelled terrible. I don’t think I was fully aware of the fact that New York was not normally like this. I just concluded that it was a terrible place and I avoided going back for years and years and years.
Eventually, however, I did go back. What had happened to the stinky piles of garbage? They were gone. It was Christmas time and I was in love and my partner and I were visiting his fabulously talented sister who was a Broadway performer. The whole city was covered in decorations. Lights and tinsel. Decorated storefronts. We were attending amazing performances in the evening and enjoying the city during the day. I swear that everyone on the street smiled at us!
Now this may not have been exactly true, but that is how I remember it. There is a lot of joy in Season, and this celebration is beyond the ads, and the sales and the shopping. In London where I grew up, and even in New York, this time of year simply feels different.
So, in the nonprofit world, staff members don’t get to celebrate too much. They are working hard on closing those end of year gifts. In the nonprofit world, annual giving is always focused on the end of the year.
And I have suggested to many of my clients to jump in on their fundraising at this time. They are often surprised: “Aren’t people busy, and traveling, and away?” Yes. And they are also giving. As filmmakers, we can often borrow techniques from the nonprofit fundraising world, whose tried and true practices can best be applied when we are making films with content around social issues. I have had clients successfully use these techniques with fiction shorts around cancer and racism. Or features looking at history. Of course documentary filmmakers use ALL the techniques that nonprofits use. And it’s important to also take advantage of the Season of Giving.
If you are raising funding from individual donors - small and Major - this is the time. You have 4 solid weeks to contact your people and kick off your New Year with some end of year giving. Happy Fundraising!
I'm Joanne Butcher
Film Business Coach and Consultant
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Make Movies. Make Money. Make the World a Better Place.
Filmmakers are the most creative people in the world. Whether you write, produce, direct, act, compose scores, storyboard (the list goes on!), I truly believe that you have a unique story to tell and that that story can change the world.
Where I most often see independent filmmakers (second and third feature filmmakers
not excluded) struggle, though, is in turning that creativity into a well-made, successful, and financially viable film.
And that's where I come in.
With my experience in marketing, fundraising, and producing, I have guided clients through writing Nicholl's award-winning scripts, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars, producing the films they've always dreamed of, and transforming their overall thought processes around creating.
My clients currently have 13 films in distribution, with 5 more on the way later this year. Others have nationwide programming on PBS, and many are working on internationally produced documentary and narrative feature films.
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Do you want the secret to getting you film funded?
Inside this book I will reveal the answers to all your questions, the secrets to getting your film funded & distributed globally. After reading this book you will have the knowledge and tools the raise the money you need to make a film that sets the world on fire! This is my 'Film Box Office S.U.C.C.E.S.S Formula' Click the button below to start your journey to film funding success...
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