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Film Courage: How do you go about finding financing for your projects?
Rory Karpf, Filmmaker: All different kinds of ways. I mean the traditional way for financing is you pitch a project and you get either a company or a streamer to fund it for you. You go out and pitch.
It’s never been more difficult to go that route. You have to have something that is undeniable. What does that mean? At least in the unscripted world is where I’m pitching a lot. You have to have something that people just feel like is a known entity or the story is so wild, like How could it go wrong? There’s not a lot of risk taking as far as taking a chance on something that might not sell.
True crime is going to sell. Traditionally big biopics on known figures, especially in sports follow docs of a team or somebody, a celebrity. Those are the things traditionally in unscripted that sell.
Another way so that’s one way I found in scripted if you can get an actor attached but you have to be…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
BIO:
Rory Karpf is a 4-time Emmy and Peabody Award winning filmmaker who has collaborated with notable talents such as Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Snoop Dogg, Shaquille O’Neal, Paul Newman, Vin Diesel, Peyton Manning, Rob Lowe and Dana White. His documentary work includes the ESPN 30 for 30 films “I Hate Christian Laettner,” “Nature Boy,” “The Book of Manning,” the Netflix series “Coach Snoop,” and the AMC series “The Secret History of Comics.” “Grace Point” is Rory’s first scripted feature as a writer and director.
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