They Don't Want To Give Money To 50 Year Old Filmmakers

They Don't Want To Give Money To 50 Year Old Filmmakers - Donald F. Glut

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10 ай бұрын

In this Film Courage video interview, Filmmaker/Comic Book Writer/Author Donald F. Glut, attempted to secure funding for his movies. He discovered that professional investors shied away from the high-risk movie industry, while potential backers often backed out at the last minute due to fear or external influences. Frustrated after a decade of trying, he eventually financed his own films by selling his comic book collection.
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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@filmcourage 10 ай бұрын

Did you give up on the hope to find an investor for your film and self-finance? If so, what happened?

@DLVRYDRYVR 10 ай бұрын

Haven't tried yet. I'm at the phase where I'm too nervous asking for money. Art vs Commerce.

@jimveybe7689 10 ай бұрын

@@martydmc12 Why raise capital? The only money I shell out for anyone but me is for travel and food, unless I shoot locally, in which case there are no such expenses. If someone cannot come up with five grand for their hobby, they should worry about replacing their car's transmission when it dies.

@DLVRYDRYVR 10 ай бұрын

I always thought 50 was old until I turned 50, this year.

@tenkeyproductions5246 10 ай бұрын

Here's my takeaway from this: if you can fund your own project, go ahead and do it. This way, if your film makes money, you dont owe anyone. If it loses money, you don't have to answer to anyone.

@JeffMesserman 10 ай бұрын

I absolutely adore this man.

@warriorclassmedia 10 ай бұрын

Very good information

@MsAndaction 10 ай бұрын

I'd be honored to work in a film by him.

@TimHayes 10 ай бұрын

How horrible they don't want to give money to 50 year old filmmakers!

@clemarmclean9443 10 ай бұрын

Consider the source. "They" want to give money to filmmakers they're confident will make them more money. Have a look at Glut's body of work and tell me whether those titles from the 90s and consider whether they seem like financially sure bets.

@pzmoore007 10 ай бұрын

They don't want to "give" money to anybody, now investing is a different story. I have made several feature films and won many prestigious awards. My films have been distributed in theaters nationwide and named the number six film of the year by "Siskel and Ebert". Large budgets are political, Friends and associates invest with their cohorts or those they are told to. You will not get millions if you are not part of the clique! Period! Unless somehow you can raise it yourself. Now here is the truth, if you can get your hands on 1 million dollars for a film, you get 10 million in credit through a major film company, (Cash is more valuable than credit).

@RDSimpson 9 ай бұрын

I'm 74 and still writing and still seeking opportunities. IT is true that younger people do see older people as ' not in the game' UNLESS the writer/director is well known already. Play smart and learn from your mistakes.

@filmcourage 9 ай бұрын

We were reminded recently about the writer for The King's Speech.

@vincentcrowley5196 6 ай бұрын

You have some life experiences , something someone 50 years younger doesnt. Can anything you have gone through be used for a film?

@RDSimpson 6 ай бұрын

@@vincentcrowley5196 Hey VC- yes one can add parts of ones life into the characters one uses for scripts and acting. I do write scripts - I don't add my 'character' into scripts yet but do add my experiences good and bad, and make them the script story or part of a script.

@edwardzimmerman3483 10 ай бұрын

Regardless of the business, When seeking investors always accept "No" for an answer... The time you spend trying to win someone over can always be better well spent...

@pzmoore007 10 ай бұрын

I never raised money from strangers! If you know how please show me!

@kit888 10 ай бұрын

Name from my childhood. He wrote the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back.

@idxstudios 6 ай бұрын

I'm 58 and banking in film..age is just a number

@grantgreyguda 10 ай бұрын

👍 👍

@nickybjammin7629 10 ай бұрын

Hang on! Hang on!! Captain Cave man? and the teen angels? and Land of the lost! and He-Man?!?! Filmation…? I just got the first season of Land of the lost i had to revisit literally my first good clear memories…my first years was the television set and fields, revers, lakes, nature and shows like land of the lost 😂 my first really crazy dream was me being snapped in half by two giant upright cartoon alligators it was pretty wild.

@nickybjammin7629 10 ай бұрын

What is Sag?!

@xtntxex 10 ай бұрын

SAG = Screen Actor’s Guild. The union that represents actors.

@nickybjammin7629 10 ай бұрын

@@xtntxex that’s right! It doesn’t sound like a union type’a name. Are sag awards for union members only?

@xtntxex 10 ай бұрын

@@nickybjammin7629 I’m not an expert but I would imagine yes. I do know not just anybody can claim to be an actor and then expect to have representation. There are different ways to become a member. The only one one I can remember off the top of my head is to be the principal in an advertisement. In other words the “star” of the commercial.

@jimveybe7689 10 ай бұрын

@@xtntxex Unless you must have known stars to make your movie marketable, SAG is a waste of time and money. Plenty of talent out there who will work cheap if they are treated and fed well. I reject financial restrictions on making good movies.

@JimmyJacpots 10 ай бұрын

maybe producers dont want to give him money is because of the terrible schlock he made before?

@CompoundNihilist 9 ай бұрын

Yup.

@KEP1983 10 ай бұрын

7:16 and where do normal people find $150,000 to make their own movie without investors? 😮 I don't have any valuable comic collections to sell, I'll tell you that!!! Hah

@pzmoore007 10 ай бұрын

People I know remortgage their houses

@KEP1983 10 ай бұрын

@@pzmoore007 that's dumb. Lol 😂. But you might be right, there's not really a bunch of quick ways to get access to money like that.

@pzmoore007 10 ай бұрын

Exactly!@@KEP1983