Inside the Untold Journey of Creating a Hit Movie Far from Hollywood Lights with Adam Burke and Jud Nichols
Ashley
$12,000 on the taxidermy, it was the biggest part of the budget. So, then how did you guys raise money? You have a script, you’re doing these tests. It sounds like, and I’m just, I don’t want to put words in your mouth. So, correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like you guys are in the scene. You’re doing shorts. So, you know, local actors, you know, local film and crew, you’re bringing this together, but what was, how were you able to raise the money to pay for it all?
Judd Nichols
The way we did it was Adam had read and recommended independent AD. And so our, you know, our attempts to raise money, it’s just so, I felt like we were going to, we were either going to mostly self-fund this or not get it done, especially because I told them, and maybe this isn’t the right thing to say, but when I scroll through and see all these like medical disasters needing money on GoFundMe, it’s just, I don’t feel right necessarily asking people for large amounts of money so we can make art. So, our strategy was not viewing this, like some tried and true industry thing that’s going to happen. If you give us money, you’ll get it back. We were just completely honest with people and told them we’re self-funding this and we’re offering some money for our actors and then we’re giving them a portion of ownership of the product. And we told them, this is a lot more like a startup than, you know, a factory job. That’s just the reality. As far as I can tell, unless people are keeping things from me, I just think that’s more realistic and more true to what exists in the Minneapolis film industry, and I’m putting that in air quotes because I just don’t know if it exists. So we knew we weren’t building a project that has like any guarantees. It was like, either we swing for the fences and hit this thing out of the park and we, you know, pour champagne together with our grand slam, or we’re going to self-fund it and try and work within all the barriers that surround us. And like I said, I don’t know if that’s the right thing to say, but that’s what happened.
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