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Film Courage: Can you talk us through your first investor meeting? First off, where would you be meeting these people?
Sean Reid, Filmmaker: I’ve met investors in all kinds of places. I’ve met investors in coffee shops. I’ve met investors in high-end hotels. I’ve not met them at all, I’ve just talked to them on the phone. Really it’s just wherever the opportunity strikes, wherever they’re comfortable, wherever you’re comfortable and go yeah however it’s going to work. I’ve done it just straight over the phone with no meeting whatsoever, just a conversation, let them think about it, close the deal in another conversation, sign the agreement, you’re done. It’s what it should be actually.
Film Courage: Is it mostly the investor asking you questions or are you taking the lead?
Sean: If I’m contacting someone, I’m giving them the information and putting them through the paces, taking the lead and letting them know what this is and what it contains and how it works and here it is and taking them through essentially what it’s going to be and what that deal is so that before we’ve ever gotten to paperwork we have in spirit agreed on the deal. That’s the key element to where people don’t realize that they have a deal, it’s the art of the deal, right. If you haven’t decided on or discussed all the deal points then why…(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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