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Vision + Fundraising Skills = Being A Professional Filmmaker

January 07, 20252 min read

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Vision + Fundraising Skills = Being A Professional Filmmaker

Here at Filmmaker Success, we do a lot of work visioning.  Having a vision is a pre-requisite to allowing - or achieving - anything we want in life.  Famous books such as Dale Carnegie’s “Think And Grow Rich” are all about creating a vision of what you want.  Abraham-Hicks teaches the Law of Attraction and you can watch thousands of hours of their teachings on YouTube.  What we think, we attract.  What we believe, we create.  If we believe we can make a feature film in 2025, then we are already closer to that goal than before we chose to believe.

What do you believe?  

Do you believe you can make a feature film in 2025?  If yes, what film do you want to make?  What is your vision for making that film?

Do you believe that you can raise the money you need to make that feature film in 2025?  And this is where so many filmmakers get stuck.  They cannot see the path from their desire to make that film, and their need to raise money.


Some filmmakers get stuck at the place of “I believe, I believe. I believe in myself so I can do it!”  But after many ‘No’s” they start to realize that belief alone is not enough.  

Some filmmakers get stuck at the place of “I don’t need any money.  I’ll get my friends to do favors and make it anyway.”  Here at Filmmaker Success, we consider this a stuck place because filmmakers are using their vast creativity to do without what they really need to make the film at the level they wish.

Some filmmakers realize: “Wait a minute!  I need to learn how to raise money to make my film.  No one ever taught me to raise money.  So I need to learn.”  

Once filmmakers gain the skills to raise money to make their films in 2025, they can continue - rinse and repeat - to make more films, year after year.  Once filmmakers have a road map to guide them to become skilled at fundraising, they develop the expertise to raise money for film after film.  


Learning how to raise money is usually the missing skill filmmakers need to acquire to further their film careers.

Vision + Fundraising skills = being a professional filmmaker.

Joanne Butcher (joannefilm)

Joanne Butcher is a film business coach with a roster of clients that have over 143 feature films in various stages of development and over 21 clients with feature films in distribution, as well as one client with a series on PBS. She has experience consulting on over 40 successful crowdfunding campaigns. She uses her decades of experience as a fundraiser in multiple sectors through her business, Filmmaker Success, where she runs The Film Box Office S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Formula™ and The Virtual Fundraising Team to help filmmakers and non-profits change their way of thinking, raise money, and achieve their goals.

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I'm Joanne Butcher

Film Business Coach and Consultant

"Are you ready to take a leap of faith and make the film you've been dreaming of making?

Have you given any thought to how to make your films financially viable? Profitable?

Is it time to finally tell the story you were always meant to tell?

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.

The struggle is OVER, after reading this book the path to funding your first Block Buster will be CLEAR!

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.

My B.U.L.L.E.T.P.R.O.O.F coaching program helps you HEAL from a lifetime of NARCISISTIC ABUSE.

The struggle is OVER, after reading this book the path to

funding your first Block Buster will be CLEAR!

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...

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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