• Funding
  
  

  Going Guerrilla with Zombies

  Holly Million
  Nov 23, 2010

  Horror legend George Romero offers fundraising advice to first-timers: "Just make the movie. Don’t worry about the money."

  
• Home
  
  

  Going Guerrilla with Zombies

  Holly Million
  Nov 23, 2010

  Horror legend George Romero offers fundraising advice to first-timers: "Just make the movie. Don’t worry about the money."

  
• November 24, 2010
  
  

  Going Guerrilla with Zombies

  Holly Million
  Nov 23, 2010

  Horror legend George Romero offers fundraising advice to first-timers: "Just make the movie. Don’t worry about the money."

  
• 08-12-10
  
  

  Overcoming Your Fear of Fundraising

  Holly Million
  Aug 10, 2010

  A few simple ideas can help nervous fundraisers take the leap.

  
• Funding
  
  

  Overcoming Your Fear of Fundraising

  Holly Million
  Aug 10, 2010

  A few simple ideas can help nervous fundraisers take the leap.

  
• Funding
  
  

  A Short Guide to Funding Short Narratives

  Holly Million
  May 11, 2010

  If you re making a short narrative, foundations give you no respect. Financiers turn a cold shoulder. Government grantors snort. And festivals slot your film Sunday at midnight.

  
• Funding
  
  

  Do Ask, Do Tell

  Holly Million
  Mar 1, 2010

  I've asked people for all kinds of money for all kinds of reasons. Whether I'm asking for $1,000 or $100,000, I've found some key concepts rule.

  
• Funding
  
  

  Road-Tested Rules For Bang-up Fundraising Events

  Holly Million
  Jan 12, 2010

  Seems like every filmmaker I know is ready to party! Everyone s throwing fundraising events for their films. So many babes in the party-planning woods.

  
• Funding
  
  

  How to Entice and Reward Potential Donors

  Holly Million
  Nov 10, 2009

  Here are a few ways to both entice and reward your donors, as well as some tips for thanking them when all's said and done.

  
• Funding
  
  

  Writing a Kick-Ass Funding Proposal

  Holly Million
  Sep 14, 2009

  Fear-Free Fundraising: Notes on assembling the basic ingredients for a great foundation funding proposal.

  
• Funding
  
  

  Are Your "Friends" Worthless?

  Holly Million
  Jul 13, 2009

  Fear-Free Fundraising: Are Your "Friends" Worthless?

  
• Story Structure
  
  

  Story Structures that Funders Love

  Karen Everett
  Jun 29, 2009

  The Edit Room: I decided to set my New Doc Editing research team on a mission to find out what structural models are getting funded these days.

  
• Funding
  
  

  "Just Make Them Love It"

  Holly Million
  Jun 8, 2009

  Make them love it. Make? Oh, words of dread! How do you MAKE somebody love your film?

  
• Funding
  
  

  Six Degrees of Bringing Home the Bacon

  Holly Million
  May 12, 2009

  Fear-Free Fundraising: Holly Million pitches her approach to securing donors, The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  SXSW: From the Producer's Chair

  Holly Million
  Mar 17, 2009

  Holly Million reviews some of the documentaries shown at this year's festival: It Came >From Kuchar, MIne and Motherland.

  
• Funding
  
  

  Lightening Your Fundraising Load

  Holly Million
  Feb 13, 2009

  Fear-Free Fundraising: Holly Million suggests ways to make approaching individual donors that much easier.

  
• Funding
  
  

  From Gauche to Great

  Holly Million
  Dec 16, 2008

  Fear-Free Fundraising: Holly Million on how donor cultivation can make you a successful film fundraiser.

  
• Funding
  
  

  What Crisis? Fundraising During an Economic Meltdown

  Holly Million
  Dec 3, 2008

  Fear-Free Fundraising: Holly Million advises filmmakers on where to get funding when the going gets tough.