When you're a first-time documentary filmmaker (or even an established one), there's always one key hurdle to surmount: funding. As Maya Newell, the Australian director of "Gayby Baby," told a crowd of budding documentarians at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival this week, "No one knows who you are, so they don't want to give you money." But that didn't stop Newell, or the other first-timer directors who spoke on the Bell Media Kickstart panel "My First Doc," Canadians Suzanne Crocker ("All the Time in the World") and Amber Fares ("Speed Sisters"), all of whom shared advice on how to get funding and make your film in the right way. Read More: Making a Living at Documentary Filmmaking is Harder Than Ever. Here's Why Here are six tips from these trailblazing nonfiction filmmakers: 1. Crowdfund. For both Newell and Fares, crowdfunding campaigns provided an initial boost to get their projects moving forward.
- 5/1/2015
- by Anthony Kaufman
- Indiewire
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