99 Ways to Finance Your Film?
As this press release from 99 Ways Entertainment demonstrates, you have to think creatively if you want to raise film financing.
To get its own stories distributed 99 Ways has brought together a dynamic mix of music and film stars together with creative financing by NBA players, doing an end run around the traditional channel of seeking pick up by a separate film distribution company. Its first feature-length docudrama, Gangstresses, starring singers Mary J. Blige and Lil’ Kim, was produced for $25,000. Released straight-to-video, it spent 12 weeks on Billboard’s Top 40 Video Sales, earning revenues in excess of $1 million and garnering the Independent Film Project (IFP) Best Directorial Debut award for Davis. Six years later the film, which was also featured in pop culture venues such as BET, The Source and Interview Magazine, is still selling in the U.S. and internationally.
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