$300,000 Wasn’t Enough To Make The Movie — Barney Cheng
Film Courage: Do you remember the first person or entity that gave you money or it came from different sources [for Barney’s film BABY STEPS]?
Writer/Director/Actor/Producer, Barney Cheng: Yes, it was the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan. They gave us $400,000.
Film Courage: Wow!
Barney: Yes, $400,000 to make the film.
Film Courage: What’s the conversation rate? Sorry…
Barney: $300,000 U.S. Dollars to make the film. That was the first entity that gave us money but even then we couldn’t raise the money. The Ministry of Culture of Taiwan gave us money but you need to make this money within two years. If you don’t make this movie within a certain period of time you lose that money. We needed to come up with the rest of the budget so we were hustling…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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