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Free Class! 7 Types of Fundraising

Wednesday January 24,2024 from 10am-12noon EST

Have you ever tried fundraising to make your films? Have you tried crowdfunding? Have you been writing grants?

Well, there are actually other ways of raising funds to make your films. In fact, it's most likely that you will need to create a mix of funding to make your film.

In this class, you will walk away with many new ideas about funding sources and learn how to put together a fundraising plan for your film.

How To Join this Free Class or access the festival: (Remember any donation gets you a ticket to the whole festival.)

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The class is offered online with limited virtual seating and is free of charge. However, we suggest making a donation of any amount to LifeLine Service Dogs, as 50% of all festival ticket sales are sent directly to them.https://www.eventbrite.com/.../global-film-exhibition...

Additionally, any donation(Even $1) grants you access to over 50 films in our festival, all available on-demand (VOD), making it a great opportunity for filmmakers.

Please reply to this email if you are going to attend. or email steven@globalfilmexhibition.com with the subject "Funding Class"

Please not it might take 30 minutes to get you access to the whole festival.

About the Instructor:

Joanne Butcher is a seasoned Consulting Producer with over 180 films in development and 21 features distributed.

Author of "Getting Your Film Funded, Produced and Distributed Globally," she excels in fundraising and distribution, aiding in the sale of numerous films and leading 40+ crowdfunding campaigns.

Joanne has ties with key film organizations and founded Unstoppable,a disability film festival. She also ran a cinema and film school in Miami Beach, launching the Florida Feature Film Competition with a $200,000 prize.

Renowned for her ability to raise funds and distribute films globally, Joanne is a valuable asset for independent filmmakers.

Producing Bio:

Currently, Joanne Butcher works as a Consulting Producer with over 100 independent filmmakers supporting them with their fundraising and distribution.

In 2022-23, Joanne facilitated the sale of several feature films, both fiction and documentary: “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “The Contrast,” “In the Wine Dark Sea,” “Wine Hunter,” “Homestead,” “Dooba Dooba,” and “Move Me No Mountain.” She has now participated in the distribution of 16 features with more due this year.

She has supported her clients with training in fundraising, raising funds through major donors, grants, foundations, corporate sponsorship, and over 40 crowdfunding campaigns. Joanne has helped her clients raise anything from $12,000 to make a short, to millions of dollars to make films and series. One of her clients, Michelle Malley Campos, was just awarded $1.288M to make her first feature.

An active member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Joanne has consulted on many documentary films as well with organizations such as Slamdance where she is a Founder of Unstoppable, a disability film festival, and the Brazilian Film Festival in Miami. She has frequently taught and served as a judge at ttff (Trinidad and Tobago FIlm Festival) and the Forever Foundation, a Caribbean-wide an organization providing mentorship and career development for young creatives.

While directing a first run cinema and film school in Miami Beach, Florida, Joanne developed and created the Florida Feature Film Competition which led to the completion of several feature films. Entering the Competition put producers through a process that upleveled their business and marketing packages while competing for a $200,000 prize.

Her current clients have 143 feature films in various stages of development from script to distribution, in documentary and fiction, including 3 films from $2 - $5M going into production this summer. Her specialty is helping filmmakers raise funds to get their projects made and distributed globally.

International Bio:

Joanne Butcher has worked with international filmmakers for 20 + years. She has worked with 100’s of international producers, writers and directors particularly from the U.S., the UK, Brazil, Cuba, and the Caribbean.

Joanne has had the privilege of studying with James Schamus, producer and writer of Ang Lee’s “The Ice Storm,” and former CEO of Focus Features; Ted Hope, producer of “Brokeback Mountain,” Laura Bickford, producer of “Traffic,” Sergio Giral, Cuban writer and director, and Lucy Barreto, who, with her husband, has produced over 200 films in Brazil.

While directing a first run cinema and film school in Miami Beach, Florida, Joanne developed and created the Florida Feature Film Competition which led to the completion of several feature films. Entering the Competition put producers through a process that upleveled their business and marketing packages while competing for a $200,000 prize.

For the past 5 years, Joanne has been a business owner and business coach to 100 filmmakers who now have 13 feature films in distribution with 5 more coming out in the next 6 months. Many of her clients have films in festivals, winning awards, and achieving the visibility they had always dreamed.

Her current clients have 108 feature films in various stages of development from script to distribution, in documentary and fiction. Her specialty is helping filmmakers raise funds to get their projects made and distributed globally.

Other Free Events

With Joanne Butcher

Weekly - Clubhouse

https://www.clubhouse.com/.../filmmaker.../pOFv6idw/xoe74zQo

Bi Weekly - The Filmmaker’s Life

https://www.filmmakersuccess.com/The-Filmmakers-Life-Home...

Monthly Workshops

https://joannefilm.kartra.com/page/FinanceSecondFeature...

Monthly Newsletter

https://www.filmmakersuccess.com/Filmmaker-Success-About...

Global Film Exhibition Free Filmmakers Virtual Meetups

Jan. 18,2024 P.M. 8 P.M. (CST)

Jan 24, 2024 9 A.M.(CST)

Jan. 26, 2024 9 P.M.(CST)

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Buy Her Book Just Click on the Title

Getting Your Film Funded, Produced, and Distributed Globally: A Seven Step System, The Film Box New Book!

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Description: Your film funding guide, business coach and consulting producer, Joanne Butcher, has 21 features in distribution and over 150 features in development. Her work with filmmakers is a results-driven approach taking excellent projects out to a range of fundraising options.

As a filmmaker, your ultimate goal is to create a visually stunning and emotionally resonant film that reaches an audience and makes a lasting impact. But the journey from concept to successful release can be long and daunting, especially for newcomers to the industry. Many of the most popular books on the topic of filmmaking fail to even mention the issue of raising funds. As any filmmaker will discover, without money you will get stuck.

You might be able to make your first short film without money, but eventually you will want to hire a professional director of photography, or better actors, or rent a location, or pay to pull a permit, or for production insurance. Filmmaking sometimes looks like one budget item after another!

That’s where The Film Box Office S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Formula comes in: it's a comprehensive seven-step framework that will guide you through the film production process and empower you to achieve your creative vision while maximizing your film’s reach. And the best thing about this seven-step framework is that it doesn’t pretend that the fundraising is going to happen all by itself.

The acronym S.U.C.C.E.S.S. stands for:- S: Script - Create a Marketable Script- U: U-Make your Film- C: Calculate the Value of your Film- C: Create a Distribution Plan- E: Easiest Fundraising Plan for You- S: Start Fundraising- S: Start Production In this book, we will take a deep dive into each step of the The Film Box Office S.U.C.C.E.S.S. framework, providing practical advice and real-world examples to help you master the film production process, raise the funds you need and achieve your goals.