How To Finance Your Independent Film

How do I finance my independent film?

Money and finance can come from all over the globe for independent films. There are financing companies overseas that put money into independent films, there can be money from the films makers themselves as is often times the case, there could be money from people's Aunts, their parents, some guy you went to High School with. Wherever you can get money from for your independent film, you get it. Spike Lee was shooting Malcolm X for a studio and they wanted to pull the plug on the movie, they said he had gone over budget and he was too late, so here you see the studio was influencing the vision of the filmmaker. So he called his famous friends, he called Oprah Winfrey, he called Magic Johnson and Michael Jordon and said that we need to make this movie, to make it right and to make it the way I want to make it, so they all put up their own money. Indeed Michael Jordon is a silent producer on Malcolm X and not a lot of people know that. Spike Lee, because he comes from the world of independent film making, he was a NYU student, he was resourceful in that respect and he knew how to just get the independent film done and to navigate through the studio system. Therefore he was able to say I'm not going to let you ruin my vision, I'm going to go out there and make the movie. So money can really come from anywhere, as long as the cheques clear, that's all you need as an independent film maker.