4 Big Challenges A Filmmaker Faces On Their First Feature Film by Nadia Jordan
Film Courage: What were the top three things you say from the production standpoint that were the toughest, that this was where most of the problems or challenges resided?
Nadia Jordan, co-writer, producer and actor on FOR THE LOVE OF GEORGE: Yeah…I mean financing is always hard. This [FOR THE LOVE OF GEORGE movie] started with a crowdfunding campaign and grew. We had initial funding come in, but we were given these deadlines and this deadline extended and I needed to get more money or we were going to lose the funds we had. So that was a huge stress. That was like a year or over a year of trying to raise more money to be able to actually shoot the film.
And for me as a producer you know this was new territory for me. I’d produced, but I hadn’t gone out and raised money before. And in Los Angeles everyone’s got a film that they think is great that they’re trying to get made. So that was really hard. Particularly because we had these deadlines and at some point you’ve have to…I went to a lot of producer seminars and people are like “Whatever budget you’ve got, however small, however big, you’re always going to want more. Just shoot. Just shoot. Scale it down. Do something. But don’t let someone go.” Especially in this position where we had some money I wasn’t sure if we could make the film for that. But it got to the point to where I just had to go for it. And that was at the point where I decided to produce it myself…(More here via FilmCouarge.com).
