A Geeky Way to Fund Films

Posted on November 22, 2009
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Good producers willing to work on smaller budget films are hard to find and the process of getting enough money to make your film can be arduous. One filmmaker has tried to break away from the traditional “Producer Package” methods that many short and low budget filmmakers use.

Andy Coughlan, a writer, director and editor based in southern England, has created a web site called Geeky Gifts to help fund his Science Fiction feature film, Return to Earth. Geeky Gifts is a price comparison site that helps people browse a wide range of gifts, gadgets and gizmos.

Andy explains, “Andy says, “I’m under no delusion that my track record in the film industry has been anything like spectacular, having only worked on a handful of short films and features, so traditional funding routes are probably not going to be that fruitful. So I started looking for alternative funding methods.”

“A few of my friends have achieved some success selling producer packages, but that was only for short, modestly budgeted films and tended to only really work during the pre-production phase. It would be better to find something that will drip feed in a steady source of finance over the length of production.”

“I started researching various affiliate marketing schemes and realised I might be able to utilise my web programming background. Much of what these people peddle is nonsense, or at best will only work for a small percentage of the people that sign up to these things. But at the same time, there were quite a few nuggets of gold that I held on to. Once I’d separated the wheat from the chaff, it didn’t take me long to arrive at the idea of Geeky Gifts.”

“It seemed clear to be that if I could make a site that people would want to use independent of the knowledge that they were funding a film, it would bring more long term benefits.”

Andy is Hoping that with Christmas coming and the present buying season just around the corner, launching the site now will reap rewards.

So take a look, Geeky Gifts – the web site where you buy presents and help fund a movie.