Most producers spend years trying to fund their film and eventually begin to believe there just isn’t any money out there for their project—or worse, that their project simply isn’t good enough.
So they go back to the project. They improve the script, sometimes even attaching cast and a director, believing that this will solve the problem, often attaching the wrong director or cast without even realizing it.
They finally get investor calls—calls that took so long to secure in the first place—and then wait for a reply that either never comes or is hidden behind false promises like, “We’ll only be looking at new projects in six months.”
And years go by.
What’s even more painful is watching projects they know are of lower quality get funded while theirs remains stuck.
Then something else begins to happen. The project slowly starts to fall apart.
The attached talent won’t wait forever without a strong contract. And when you’ve managed to secure the right attachments, losing them hurts even more.
Slowly, hope begins to fade.
And with it, so does the confidence that maybe you were ever meant for this life.