Getting Your Film Financed

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Getting Your Film Financed

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78 minutes

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Sep 21, 2021

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This week we speak with Scott duPont about film financing. He guides us through a step by step process he's been to finance his own films for over twenty years. Scott breaks the entire process down for us.

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Sep 21, 2021

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Getting Your Film Financed

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