Let's say I have a film that I want financial assistance to make...how would I go about finding a movie producer?
shareI think you usually have to have a literary agent first to submit a script or treatment. I remember in the early 90s how Star Trek The Next Generation had an open script submission policy.
shareAnyone can be a producer. Find someone with money or connections to money.
If what you're asking is how to submit your pitch/script/package for consideration to an established, well-connected movie producer within the traditional Hollywood system, you're going to have to jump through some additional hoops, especially if you don't live in a major film city or adjacent to it.
Consider getting you material out there in another medium - online short, graphic novel, short story, etc.
Unfortunately, I don't live anywhere near a major film city. Not even in the slightest.
shareFortunately that isn't as much of a hurdle as it used to be. Today you have the means to make whatever movie you want to and get it out to an audience. Granted, the product is going to be shaped by your access to resources, but look at it as a way to flex your creative problem solving skills in order to achieve a vision.
For emerging filmmakers, the bottleneck used to be the means of production. Now anyone has access to professional grade video/sound/editing tools. We've already seen multitudes of films shot and edited on the filmmaker's home-based resources.
The bottleneck then became distribution. With physical media giving way to dozens of streaming platforms, someone doesn't need to look very far to release a film on Amazon or what have you. People have and are currently launching careers on YouTube. Getting stuff out there is no longer a major hurdle.
Currently the bottleneck is marketing. In the sea of endless entertainment options, how does one attract eyeballs? There are solutions to that, but you might as well get started producing your movie now and worry about that detail far down the line.
If you have a major university near you they might have a film school and people in the program would probably know.
shareGot a credit card? Congrats, you're the producer.
shareHaha...uhh, no.
shareRead Fred's second reply to you. I can't add much to that. These days, there's little to stop you from making something and putting it out there. Focus on the material itself. Without knowing you or your idea or your script, it needs work and more work and more work and more work after that. High production values won't save a meh idea. It needs to be on the page in a special way before all that other stuff.
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