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Film Courage: How did you go from making no budget movies to raising $165,000-ish for Clowning?
P.M. Lipscomb, Filmmaker: Clowning came about in a very interesting way. The horror film we’re going into here soon, that picture we were in the process of building out, talking to different producers/executive producers for the horror film and casting directors, and as we started to build that project I became more detached from it because the current producers that were there at that moment they were going around and talking to investors but they weren’t bringing me to those meetings. Out of a desperation to continue creating I wrote Clowning and then in the midst of that horror film I needed to find an entertainment attorney because these contracts were going to start coming from these investors for the horror film and I needed to be prepared because who knows what those were going to say and obviously you just have to have an entertainment attorney. At that time I was living in West Hollywood and I realized calling entertainment attorneys around Los Angeles was going to be much more expensive. Most people want you to put down $20,000 or a larger retainer on them to come into a feature film and we didn’t have that kind of capital laying around to get an entertainment attorney that way.
I called my Uncle who works in international tax consulting and just asked them about getting an entertainment attorney. He told me he would call. He’s in Atlanta…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
P.M. Lipscomb has passionately made awarding-winning movies since April 23, 2006. He has made three feature films and thirty-six shorts presented at a dozen film festivals across the country. He strives to make work as a means of escape for the audience from the everyday hardships. After receiving the Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2015 for his decade of work in film, he was hired as a documentarian in Toronto, Canada to follow Jacob Barnett. P.M. Lipscomb has also taught film editing at the Academy of Art in San Francisco for a year and learned from experimental filmmakers such as Nathaniel Dorsky. P.M’s first feature film, CLOWNING was released through Gravitas Ventures and is available across many platforms. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, P.M. Lipscomb has now moved to West Hollywood, where he is preparing his next feature film. It is in the genre of horror, and is called Bickle.
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