From the Heart Productions :: The Roy W. Dean Film and Writing Grants

The Art of Film Funding: Alternative Financing Concepts was written to empower filmmakers. I have fully covered film financing concepts. Besides my information as a grantor for 20 years, I have pitching, proposal writing, creating brilliant trailers, how and where to get your fiscal sponsorship, raising funds from individuals and Corporations and legal information from Mark Litwak, product placement from Pattie Ganguzza and much more.

As president and CEO of From the heart Productions, between 1994 to 1998 , Carole produced over 100 television programs, including the popular cable program, HealthStyles, where she interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry including, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Weil and Dr. Caroline Myss and sold these to Oasis Cable. Carole also created 30 Filmmaker shows that are now housed in the National Archives.

In 1992 Carole created the Roy W. Dean Grant Foundation in honor of her late father. To date Carole's grant and mentorship programs have provided filmmakers with millions of dollars in goods and services and have played an instrumental role in establishing the careers of some of the industry's most promising filmmakers. Each applicant gets a free personal consultation from Carole to help improve their proposal or find financing.

A sought-after international speaker, Carole toured the U. S. with her popular books, "The Art of Film Funding: Alternative Financing Concepts" published by Michael Wiese Publications, teaching filmmakers how and where to find funding. Her newest book is for a wider audience, "The Art of Manifesting: Creating your Future" was created to enrich lives." Using your mind to fund your films is paramount to the process. This book has simple techniques and concepts to aid you in funding your film along with testimonies from successful filmmakers who use these concepts. Both of these books are now taught by Carole online through this site. They were created as a foundation for financing your film.

From the Heart has given close to $2,000,000 in over 25 grants. Carole has helped these documentarians to pursue their dreams from original donation of raw stock, lights and camera to the current New York Film, LA Film and LA Video grants valued at over $30,000.00 each. In 2005 From the Heart began working for filmmakers as a Fiscal Sponsor using the 501 C (3) not for profit issued in 1992. Currently we have close to 100 films we sponsor. Each filmmaker who applies for fiscal sponsorship receives personal guidance on creating your proposal, pitch and trailer from Carole. We support and mentor you to completion.

Films sponsored by the Roy W. Dean grants now showing are "All Power to the People" on Starz, "A Chance to Grow" on Discovery "Save A Man to Fight" on History, "The Flute Player" on PBS "Stolen" on Court TV, "Salvaged Lives", Discovery, "Homeland" and "Shakespeare Behind Bars" both on ITVS, "In My Corner", PBS, "The Tomato Effect", "Halstead Street", PBS, "Hempsters Plant the Seed", "Tahara", now in film festivals, "American Chain Gang", VHS & foreign, "Hopilavayi", and "Double Dare" to mention a few. A full list of prior grant winners are on this page: http://www.fromtheheartproductions.com/grant-pastwinners.shtml

For more information on Carole Dean see Marquis "Who's Who" for 2000 through 2009 and www.caroledean.com