“From Boots to Broadway: How Army Veteran Ryan Smith Transformed His Life Into a Captivating Musical Journey”
Ryan Smith
Yeah, previously I had done a short film that was a Lovecraft film called The Terrible Old Man and I kind of used that as a template in my mind. I found out later that was completely wrong because I thought, oh well, I did a short film that was you know 20-25 minutes long and I’m going to try to do a feature film so I just doubled the amount and hoped that it would be good enough. It wasn’t. So, we brought in from the Kickstarter about 12 to 14 thousand dollars. I can’t remember the exact amount but it was also right at the beginning of Covid. So, we had the Kickstarter and then right as a Kickstarter ended with right around the time they locked everything down so we couldn’t even film for a year and a half. Unfortunately, that also meant that that money that I had got taxed because I couldn’t use it. It was just sitting there so the government said oh that’s income and so I lost a third of the money right away, which was a major pain. So, you guess you can’t really plan for that and I think had I had more financial sense I would have figured it out some way to show, oh yeah this is set aside for filmmaking or this is I’m spending it on this and then that wouldn’t have happened but I just didn’t know at the time. But you know, in the end we needed about five times that much in order to make the film. So, I ended up getting a couple of executive producers who came online kind of pitched the story to them. They were on board and they gave some money for that and then I also funded the rest of the film personally myself.
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