Who Are the Best Feature Film Investors?

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"SCOTT DUPONT: Hi. Scott duPont here, award winning film producer and welcome back to Film Producing 101 on Expert Village. Now the next segment we're going to do here is "Who are the best film investors." And there's no real easy answer for that. And I don't want to sugarcoat something and say "Oh yeah this is the easy way." or "This is the best person for film investor." But I will share something here. It's not necessarily just the richest people on your block or the wealthiest people you can imagine. Number one, the wealthiest people sometimes are very, very conservative with their money and they don't like to do slightly risky ventures like film investment. Obviously you don't want to to go a mobile home park or trailer village, people don't have a lot of money there. But here is the overall answer I want to give you here. Find out if you're doing a horror/slasher film. Find somebody who really, really loves horror or slasher films. It's really passionate and excited about that. Real quick story I'll tell and this kinda sums it up. This was on a--not a film venture, but a large investment I was doing years and years ago and I got the opportunity to meet with the guy named Jack Murray who at the time was CEO and president of Wilson Sporting Goods. And at the end of our meeting I thought for sure he was going to invest in this project I was doing. At the end of meeting he goes "Scott, I can easily write a hundred thousand dollar check now, it would be like a dollar to you. Wouldn't even miss it from my bank account. But I'm not going to invest and I'll tell you why. I'm going to give you the best advice," which I'm sharing with you right now, "Find someone out there that's interested in this business and you'll start getting money" and we did that. I left the meeting with Jack Murray, phenomenal guy who since passed away, but this advice I use to this day. Within two months after that Jack Murray meeting, we got all of our money for that project. So kind of the sum thing's up here, find people that might be interested or excited about movies or about the topic of the movie if it's documentary and that's how you'll eventually find your money. We've got a lot more to stay tuned on Expert Village Film Producing 101, be right back."