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On Morrie Warshawski's homepage he describes himself as a consultant, facilitator and writer. He is being far too modest. Morrie is one of the best-known film finance gurus in the industry. His list of clients includes the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with other major corporations and foundations.
Morrie, you always ask filmmakers where they want to be in five years, why is this important to funding? How else can you decide what you want to do between now and then is the question. The three rocks that are the basis of all my work are mission, vision and values. They each have a different function in keeping the filmmaker or any professional productive, strategic and forceful in their career. The importance of vision is it tells you what you need to do next because you decided in the future what you really want. The issue for a filmmaker, especially, is that they have to put a lot of time energy and resources in the project they are working on right now. It is truer of a filmmaker than any other type of artist. The work they will do will take years to create and it will eat up their lives during that time. If they can't step back and have a perspective on how that one film is a piece of a larger puzzle then they miss many opportunities for maximizing every thing they do while they are making the film. What suggestions would you give to filmmakers on creating their proposal? The most important thing is to really understand what it is you want to make and why you want to make it. Those are the two big things and everything else flows from that. It is the journey of figuring this out that begins the proposal writing process. If you can articulate those two things, you can sit down next to somebody and say it, and a good grant writer can create a good proposal for you. Of course there is a lot more that goes in to it but at the very center, the very heart of the proposal is, "why am I doing this and what is it?" A lot of filmmakers haven't clarified these things when they start looking for money. Morrie is the author of Shaking the Money Tree and The Fundraising Houseparty see www.warshawski.com You can read the rest of Morrie's interview on the site at www.fromtheheartproductions.com see interviews and read about the TrailBlazer class |
