Film Financing: From $50K Films to $2M Budgets

The Practical Guide to Getting Your Movie Funded

You know how to make a film.

You can stretch $10K.
You can call in favors.
You can shoot on weekends.
You can finish a project.

But when it comes to raising real money?

That’s where everything stalls.

If you’ve ever thought:

• “How do filmmakers actually raise $2M?”
• “Why won’t investors take me seriously?”
• “Why do I keep hearing no?”
• “Why do I feel intimidated by the money side?”

This book was written for you.

Most indie filmmakers aren’t stuck because they lack talent.

They’re stuck because no one ever taught them how film financing actually works.

They:

– Build budgets before analyzing locations
– Lock in numbers that investors can’t defend
– Chase meetings without a funding strategy
– Pay for sales estimates too early
– Approach investors emotionally instead of structurally
– Burn opportunities they don’t even realize they’re burning

And then they go back to making another $50K film.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

In Film Financing: From $50K Films to $2M Budgets, you’ll learn:

✔ The deadly financing mistakes that stall filmmakers for years
✔ How to shift from a micro-budget mindset to a fundable strategy
✔ How to create a deck investors take seriously
✔ How to structure your budget before hiring a line producer
✔ How to reduce your equity gap using tax incentives and smarter location strategy
✔ Where to actually find investors (and where to stop wasting time)
✔ How to introduce yourself so investors respond
✔ How to prepare for investor meetings so you don’t need 50 of them
✔ How to secure LOIs from cast in a way that supports financing
✔ How to use AI and smarter production planning to stretch your budget

This isn’t a motivational book.

It’s a tactical roadmap.

You don’t need to become a finance expert.
You need to stop making beginner financing mistakes.

If you’re ready to graduate from scraping together micro-budgets to building films that actually get funded…

This book will show you how.

Stop struggling.

Start structuring.

Start getting funded.