I'm an author/screenwriter living in western Washington. This will probably go nowhere, but lately I’ve been toying with the idea of bringing together a group of relative newbies from around the Olympia area and developing one of my screenplays as a low-budget indie. We’re talking no one would get anything on the front end, everyone would pick up something on the back end once the project was realized, and we would still have find someone willing to throw some funding our way to get it started. I have absolutely no background in pulling something like this off, so first up would be finding someone in the area who does, and who would be willing to run housemother over the rest of us. Please look thru the links on my profile page and you'll have some idea where I'm coming from.