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Film Courage: Now it’s time to raise money for the Internal Butler. You’ve already said that possibly the budget will be 5 million? How do we find investors for the film?
Sean Reid, Filmmaker: I think it actually could be a combination of things. It could be because of the fact that if we just want to set it in Europe then we could go to some place like Ireland or Greece or wherever we decide has a good film encouragement program and see what those things would do. The first thing I would do is I would look at How do I make the package better? How do I make it something that it’s hard for you to say no to? Anybody can just put together a package and put together a budget and say this is how much it’s going to cost, that’s not a production plan. A production plan is when you go in and you look at all those elements and you say If I did this and I did this and maybe I did this and maybe I figured out how to do this and then I go shoot it here then I could actually make this movie look like it’s worth eight million dollars or ten million dollars for five million dollars. That’s how something like The Matrix gets done because Joel Silver is smart enough to go Well one, I’ve got these two guys who have never done anything except for now the movie I had them do that was successful which I can bound right. They’ve never done anything before that which he got them to do, they could do that. He went and he found he did it in I believe New Zealand and figured and got a better production package so…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Sean Reid is a 20-year veteran Producer/Director/Writer of feature films, television programming, news and music specials. His television experience includes management roles at E! NEWS LIVE (E!), as well as, producer positions on the THE ROB NELSON SHOW (Fox), and SQUARE OFF (TV Guide Channel). Reid has a well-earned reputation for combining his instinctual story skills and technical savvy to elevate the productions with which he is involved.
Reid’s Feature Film credits include the coming of age thriller drama REDEMPTION, featuring Brian White (Ray Donavon, Homeland), and T.J. Storm (Godzilla, Captain America: Civil War), on which he served as the Producer, Director and Writer. REDEMPTION was one of the first Indie features to be shot in HD with the Sony 900 camera. The movie screened in competition at the Reel World Film Festival in Toronto, and Playhouse West Festival in Los Angeles, and was distributed by LionsGate. Reid’s producer credits include the movies HORRORS OF WAR, distributed by Maverick; the festival hit PHIN; and the soon to be released feature, THE CAMPUS.
While at E! , Reid served as Assignment Manager (Supervising Producer) of E! NEWS, and was the Producer/Director of E! NEWS UNPLUGGED, a series of short music performances, and one-hour specials, shot on location in and around the E! News Studios, and featuring such performers as Robert Palmer, Lisa Loeb, Steel Pulse, Peter Frampton, Everclear, and Smash- Mouth. Over time, the performances grew from a few songs in the studio’s courtyard, to full concerts shot in front of an audience of 500.
Reid has produced over one hundred network promos and image spots, often working as a First Assistant Director. Campaigns included TYLER PERRY’S HOUSE OF PAYNE producing all of the network promos for the entire five seasons in one year. Other clients included: The NFL Network; PBS Sprout; Mothers. com; Fox’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, HOUSE, and LIE TO ME; BET’s CELEBRATION OF GOSPEL with Steve Harvey and the DIY Network’s LET’S GET DIRTY Campaign, which ran nationally in movie theaters.
Reid directed and co-produced the pilot for Variety’s DVD Premiere Awards, with host Ben Stein and presenters included Vivica A. Fox and Quentin Tarantino. He also directed the pilots for The Guest House, for Executive Producers Tisha Campbell-Martin, and Monique Chennault; and #OWNIT for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN.
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