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Film Courage: You’ve said that Hollywood is not a movie making town, it’s a movie marketing town.
Pedro Correa, Actor/Filmmaker: It is absolutely a movie marketing town over anything.
The romantic side of me wishes it were a movie making town. But ultimately we’re selling products and advertising is a big part of that to making a return on that product.
If you can market your movie, that’s a really important part of the process.
Depending on who you ask, some people might even say it’s the most important part of the process.
As a filmmaker, don’t like to say that, but it is very important.
Film Courage: Can you talk about your attempts to raise financing for My Dead Dad movie that you completed a few years back?
Pedro: Raising money for My Dead Dead movie is the ultimate rejection therapy, to go back to that.
If you’re financing a film, the first thing I think a lot of people turn toward is Hollywood itself, which can be tricky because financiers in Hollywood, they make their core income off of financing films, which is great, but they’re also very, very attuned to what makes money in a safe way and what is a risk.
Depending on the type of filmmaker or writer you are, you really have to objectively look at yourself and your project and be like, is there any risk in this project?
Because if…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
BIO:
Pedro Correa most recently co-wrote (with Fabio Frey), produced and stars-in the coming-of-age drama My Dead Dad (2021) executive produced by Declan Baldwin of Big Indie Pictures (Manchester by the Sea). In-front of the camera, he has recurred on ABC’s hit sitcom The Middle (2009), and has worked with the likes of Hulu, Disney, Syfy and more. Behind the camera, Pedro served as director for celebrity short films in the digital divisions of GQ Thailand, Esquire Singapore, Marie Claire Malaysia and Flaunt Magazine. Stars he directed include; Nick Jonas, Ruby Rose, Constance Wu and many more.
My Dead Dad is a story of a young burnout who discovers his estranged father is dead, leaving him the responsibility of managing an apartment complex. With hopes of cutting ties, he’s forced to grow up, learning about the dad he never knew through the eclectic tenants.
My Dead Dad is directed by Fabio Frey, co-written by Pedro Correa and Fabio Frey. The film stars Pedro Correa, Raymond Cruz, Courtney Dietz, Simon Rex, Booboo Stewart, Chris Pontius, and Steven Bauer.
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