From the course: 2011 SBIFF Producers' Panel: Movers and Shakers

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Securing funding

Securing funding

Patrick Goldstein: I guess, my real question, I think in terms of the art of producing, is the dark art of raising money for your movie, because it's often not there. And I think people will often wonder, "So have you learned--are there some actual tricks to the trade, or what sort of ingenuity do you have to use in terms of fundraising?" Iain Canning: Well, we had Jeffrey on board, and we had a script that people responded to, and it was incredibly tough, but I guess people did--I mean we had some funny, strange moments where people would read the scripts and say "Yes, now we are doing the film." And then we would say, "Oh, what a sec. In the first page, it says, 'For the ease of read, we are not going to do the performance of the stammer through the script because that's an actor's performance. That is not something that you want to imitate on script.'" So people would read the script and go, then remind themselves that he had a stammer, and go "Oh! Yeah, this is a different film…

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