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Film Courage: Did you really spend nine or ten years in your 40’s trying to raise money for a film?
Donald F. Glut, Writer, Film Director, and Screenwriter: No, the first time trying to raise money for anything was I was in my 50’s already and nobody wants to give any money because if they’re a professional investor and they know what they’re doing, they’re not going to invest in a movie. They don’t want to take a risk and a movie is the highest venture you can get into. I found that the most likely people to invest in a movie were people who loved movies and all their life (secretly or not too secretly) wanted to be a part of a movie but never had the chance or pass up the chance, people that had big film collections in their basements, people who used to play in rock and roll bands and they missed performing in front of a group other people, [they] just want to meet the pretty girls/actresses at the parties. But almost every time, and this is where raising like five hundred dollars or two hundred dollars or a thousand maybe. that at the very last minute they would live the life up until that point where they had to write to check. When they had to write to check then it was a different story and then somebody (their husband, their wife or their business manager or best friend) would tell them that it’s a risk. In one case we had a guy who I talked to from Chicago when I was there and…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Donald F. Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966. Don has had a long and varied career. He has been a professional musician, actor, film director, executive producer, photographer, magazine editor, proofreader and (very briefly, for an advertising agency) copywriter, but is mostly known for his long career as a freelance writer. He has written and directed feature-length motion pictures, documentaries and music videos, authored approximately 80 fiction and non-fiction published books, myriad TV scripts (live action and animation shows, network and syndicated), comic-book scripts, short stories, magazine articles, even music and theatre. He has been involved with numerous popular franchises such as Star Wars, The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and many others, and created original comic-book characters for Gold Key, Marvel and DC.
Arguably Don is best known for his novelization of the second “Star Wars” movie The Empire Strikes Back (#1 Best Seller). Don currently executive-produces, writes and directs “traditional-style” horror for his company Pecosborn Productions, and writes scripts for The Creeps horror comics magazine. Also, he is a Southern California representative of Las Vegas Talent Agency. Note: Any motion picture titles that may be listed prior to Dinosaur Valley Girls (1997) are of amateur movies, the first of 41 of which Don Glut made when he was nine years old.
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