An Offer to Disgruntled Filmmakers Who Feel They Missed Out on a Cheap SCARLET....

[Justin Chin]

Great vibe here!

I'd love to be a part of this. I'll have my Epic X soon enough and my script will be done soon and will be starting another script. Meryem, please keep me in the loop! Also, if there's any interactive work to be done, let me know, that's what I do when I'm not making films.

 

[Tom Greenberg]

Incredibly generous of all of you...

 

[Jeremiah Kuehne]

Sounds like there needs to be a screenplay written with a global setting. Then groups from around the world could film it. THAT would be a true reduser project.

 

[Erik Bien]

You already know I'm down to help out on another great passion project in any way I can ... not sure what I can contribute, other than my services as a full-time jack of many pre-pro and production trades (master of none), and part time creepy character actor ... :thumbup1:

 

[Tom Hamilton]

Under/Over guy here, available for this project. U need sharks? U need whales? Got an aspiring mermaid?

For the establishing shots, aerial also available from my Epic-equipped Cessna 182.

Projects like these are not work; they are passion, pure, simple, and profound. Color me there.

PM me anytime.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I'm in, Meryem. You know where to find me...

I can do just about anything -- providing gear, shooting it, editing, post workflow management, color grading, CGFX... However, I'm finding myself in a producer and consultant role more and more these days. If there's a film worthy of making and there's a solid plan in place with a marketable story, I'll find a way to help make it happen.

And for any of you guys with big dreams of shooting a film and you're concentrating on buying a camera; you're doing it wrong. The camera is just one small piece in a very large puzzle. Buying the camera with the intent of shooting a film is like buying a mitre saw, nail gun ant tape measure, with the intent of building a house. First, start with your house plan... your script. Then move to the next logical step: pre-production. Figure out where you're going to "build" it, that means secure your locations assemble your budget, your crew, your talent, etc.. Hey, wait a minute... I just realized I'm 3 months into pre-production and I haven't needed that camera yet.

These days, having a camera isn't a motivating factor for your peers and fellow filmmakers. Everyone has a camera.... big frickin' deal. Can't afford an EPIC? Well, I'm betting you can rent one for the duration of principle photography of your feature for the same price or less than a Scarlet. Just sayin...

Of course there's plenty of other reasons to buy a camera, besides shooting feature films... But that's another discussion.

 

[Meryem Ersoz]

wow - our talent load is getting almost out of hand.

we have a colorist...and an aerial photography equipped Cessna 182...

and some intriguing projects, in various stages of development...

some will have NDAs, some I have just promised verbally not to discuss - nothing will be disclosed without clear permissions.

but 24 hours has coughed up some definite prospects....

meanwhile, at AFM, I'm pretty much blown away - I came here for fact-finding but it may turn into so much more. I better get frickin ready!

 

[Marden Blake]

...a budget (you can now subtract camera and accessories purchase from that), a business plan, a realistic schedule, a crew, production insurance, a cast, and your locations secured. You also own a minimum of 8TB of hard drive space...

Wouldn't the total funds they would have to come up with cost just as much or more than an Scarlet?

 

[Collin Morrow]

Wouldn't the total funds they would have to come up with cost just as much or more than an Scarlet?

yes but then all they would have is a camera

 

[Jason Zeis]

Oh REDuser forums. You never cease to amaze!

 

[Conor Liam Bolton]

So I'm seeing a true World Production Effort - possibly anew Global Group
Source Film-making business model.

This is my first post on RU. It is a bit of a BIO post, and a Manifesto / Mission Statement as well, so forgive the length.

I have been visiting this site for three years, since the first time I heard about the red one. I couldn't believe that a camera with genuine full film resolution was available for less than 30 thousand dollars...When I found out that there was a project in the works to develop a camera with comparable features and resolution for under 10 thousand dollars, I realized that my dream of making my own films, without having to be discovered into the studio system, could finally be on the horizon. I grew up poor, and I was home schooled. I never could afford to go to any film school. It was a big deal when my grandparents sent me $50 for my birthday every year. I've never made more than 5 or 6 thousand dollars in a year. My parents are both disabled, so my family has never made more than 10 thousand dollars in a given year, for a family of 7; 5 boys, including me, and mom and dad. We often had less than 5 thousand dollars, when dad was out of the limited work he could get, and we were on welfare and food stamps. Many of those early years, my mother had to make due with two or three thousand dollars of cash to feed us all. We got by on food pantries and the generosity of family and friends. In short, I have always been on the bottom rung of the economic ladder...teetering on the edge of falling off into the category of homelessness and impoverishment. If not for my grandparents buying a 5 acre plot of land for us, we may have had no where to live. As it is, I live out in the middle of nowhere, 5 miles from the nearest 1 stop light town, amongst the beauty and solitude of unspoiled nature. I am a very happy person, don't get me wrong, but it can be rough living on so little, away from civilization.

I have loved film all of my life. When I was a kid, the only entertainment my 4 brothers and I had was playing war with sticks and rocks in the forest, or riding bikes on our dirt road. We could not afford cable television (it wasn't available where we lived even if we could) and we only barely received NBC and ABC, which resembled a fuzzy mess most of the time. We did not have much to watch. Movies, however, were readily available. We had two local rental locations, Rent-A-Flick and Pick-A-Flick. We would only be able to rent movies a few times a week, sometimes less when things were tight, and so we had to make our choices carefully. I remember the thrill it gave me to walk through the store with my brothers, eagerly anticipating what movies we would wind up choosing...sometimes agonizing over the choice as there were always far more choices than we could afford. We had to decide if we wanted the newer releases, or the bargain movies. We usually rented the cheaper movies so we could get more, but sometimes there would be a movie coming out that we had been looking forward to, and since we couldn't afford to go to the cinema, we would have to spend the extra money to get the new release. I remember the agony we'd feel when we went to both places and the new release we wanted was already out of stock...and, conversely, the thrill I felt when I saw that copy on the shelf, sitting there...waiting to be watched. Once a year, my grandparents would take me to spend a night at their house. I would stay in the city, with all the exciting sights and sounds and smells. We would have take out pizza for dinner, a rare treat for me, and they would take me to a movie. My grandparents were generous, they did this, separately and at different times, for every child in my family. I would look forward to the trip all year, and I would eagerly devour the previews of coming attractions on the new releases, wondering what film I would go to see on the big screen.

I have always remembered those days as the most fun and exciting days of my youth. I have come to value the cinema as much as anything in my life. I have never had any doubt about what I wanted to do with my life. First, and foremost, I have ALWAYS known that I wanted to make movies. I want to tell stories that thrill and excite and inspire the next generation of young children; Especially those children that have it hard, like I did. As I grew older, and explored my desire to make films, I began to fully realize the obstacles in my path. There were so many impediments and discouraging realities for someone in my financial situation. My heart knew what it wanted, but everything practical and sane in my mind screamed, shrieked, that anyone who dared venture into a career in film would most likely get lost along the way. The journey was not just long, perilous and treacherous, it was also EXPENSIVE. This was back in 1998, when AFFORDABLE personal video production was still very much in it's infancy. Even a basic camera set up was many hundreds to thousands of dollars to buy. Editing equipment was even more expensive. I didn't have the kind of access to equipment and resources that are available now. I couldn't get a video DSLR package for a few thousand. There weren't YouTubes and Vimeos for me to watch DIY tutorials. I couldn't get a computer for a few hundred dollars and make professional looking videos. I couldn't even afford a camera, let alone any accessories or instruction. It was then that I realized that if I was going to reach my goal, I would have to find a way to do it on my own. As the years have gone by, I have become aware of more and more options. NYFA, DIY Kits and Instructions, Guerrilla Film-Making blogs and tutorial videos, there are many available resources for an aspiring filmmaker these days. Despite the pitfalls and barriers, I have managed to supplement some of the education I need to be a professional in the film industry, mostly because of advances in the internet, video encoding & camera sensor technology. Even when I tally up all of the knowledge and experiences I have collected over the past 13 years, most of it over the past 3, it adds up to much less than what I would have learned in 1 semester at a quality film school.

In the past few years, I have decided that if I ever have enough start up capital or resources, I am going to change the common reality of learning filmmaking...not just for myself, but for all of the low income, college ineligible young filmmakers. The ones who can only dream of a quality education. The ones who can't even afford a computer and a small video camera. The ones who have lost their hope. I want to start a Guerrilla Film-making Network; at first just in a given area, but eventually spanning the entire globe. A group that pools their collective knowledge, experience and resources to make each others projects, films and dreams come to life. A group that works together to put the art, the expression, ahead of everything else. Your post, your idea, is so similar to what I want to do. The community on this message board is so much like the community I wish to build. It is more about an idea, a passionate commitment, than money or prestige. I want to gather as much funding together as I can so I can build a small fleet of cameras. From little $100 dollar pocket HD cams to HDSLRs and Red Epics, I want as many tools and resources pooled together as possible, all for the purpose of working together with people that have ideas, and people that want to learn the craft at every level. Everyone shares what they have and, in turn, what we get. We profit share, and we pay it forward. People can volunteer as, essentially, interns to learn crew positions, pre-production, casting, make-up...anything involved in the process. People can also volunteer donations or investments, things like money, props, locations, legal help, notarization, transportation, food...etc. We all decide what projects to work on, assembling teams from the top down, from project to project. Everyone receives their due credit, and everyone shares in the successes and failures. It is a model that can be applied not only to the art of film-making itself, but to society as a whole. To make it financially feasible, we simply take videography work, split evenly across a given crew, to increase the pool of available money and resources. I want to call it the “Guerrilla Film Network”, and to establish a system of interconnected satellites in locations around the world. It is very similar to cable access in many respects, with obvious changes to adapt to a different market and a newer model of operation.

Let me know what you all think of my idea.

Conor Liam Bolton

PS - It has been an absolute pleasure to frequent this forum. I am glad to finally contribute something to it

 

[Luca Immesi]

If you need a shot of Coliseum in Rome or San Marco square in Venice count me in

 

[James Drake]

What an offer!!! I know a few people I may direct your way

 

[Zeb B]

This is my first post on RU. It is a bit of a BIO post, and a Manifesto / Mission Statement as well, so forgive the length.

I have been visiting this site for three years, since the first time I heard about the red one. I couldn't believe that a camera with genuine full film resolution was available for less than 30 thousand dollars...When I found out that there was a project in the works to develop a camera with comparable features and resolution for under 10 thousand dollars, I realized that my dream of making my own films, without having to be discovered into the studio system, could finally be on the horizon. I grew up poor, and I was home schooled. I never could afford to go to any film school. It was a big deal when my grandparents sent me $50 for my birthday every year. I've never made more than 5 or 6 thousand dollars in a year. My parents are both disabled, so my family has never made more than 10 thousand dollars in a given year, for a family of 7; 5 boys, including me, and mom and dad. We often had less than 5 thousand dollars, when dad was out of the limited work he could get, and we were on welfare and food stamps. Many of those early years, my mother had to make due with two or three thousand dollars of cash to feed us all. We got by on food pantires and the generosity of family and friends. In short, I have always been on the bottom rung of the economic ladder...teetering on the edge of falling off into the category of homelessness and impoverishment. If not for my grandparents buying a 5 acre plot of land for us, we may have had no where to live. As it is, I live out in the middle of nowhere, 5 miles from the nearest 1 stop light town, amongst the beauty and solitude of unspoiled nature. I am a very happy person, don't get me wrong, but it can be rough living on so little, away from civilization.

I have loved film all of my life. When I was a kid, the only entertainment my 4 brothers and I had was playing war with sticks and rocks in the forest, or riding bikes on our dirt road. We could not afford cable television (it wasn't available where we lived even if we could) and we only barely received NBC and ABC, which resembled a fuzzy mess most of the time. We did not have much to watch. Movies, however, were readily available. We had two local rental locations, Rent-A-Flick and Pick-A-Flick. We would only be able to rent movies a few times a week, sometimes less when things were tight, and so we had to make our choices carefully. I remember the thrill it gave me to walk through the store with my brothers, eagerly anticipating what movies we would wind up choosing...sometimes agonizing over the choice as there were always far more choices than we could afford. We had to decide if we wanted the newer releases, or the bargain movies. We usually rented the cheaper movies so we could get more, but sometimes there would be a movie coming out that we had been looking forward to, and since we couldn't afford to go to the cinema, we would have to spend the extra money to get the new release. I remember the agony we'd feel when we went to both places and the new release we wanted was already out of stock...and, conversely, the thrill I felt when I saw that copy on the shelf, sitting there...waiting to be watched. Once a year, my grandparents would take me to spend a night at their house. I would stay in the city, with all the exciting sights and sounds and smells. We would have take out pizza for dinner, a rare treat for me, and they would take me to a movie. My grandparents were generous, they did this, separately and at different times, for every child in my family. I would look forward to the trip all year, and I would eagerly devour the previews of coming attractions on the new releases, wondering what film I would go to see on the big screen.

I have always remembered those days as the most fun and exciting days of my youth. I have come to value the cinema as much as anything in my life. I have never had any doubt about what I wanted to do with my life. First, and foremost, I have ALWAYS known that I wanted to make movies. I want to tell stories that thrill and excite and inspire the next generation of young children; Especially those children that had it hard, like I did. As I grew older, and explored my desire to make films, I began to fully realize the obstacles in my path. There were so many impediments and discouraging realities for someone in my financial situation. My heart knew what it wanted, but everything practical and sane in my mind screamed, shrieked, that anyone who dared venture into a career in film would most likely get lost along the way. The journey was not just long, perilous and treacherous, it was also EXPENSIVE. This was back in 1998, when AFFORDABLE personal video production was still very much in it's infancy. Even a basic camera set up was many hundreds to thousands of dollars to buy. Editing equipment was even more expensive. I didn't have the kind of access to equipment and resources that are available now. I couldn't get a video DSLR package for a few thousand. There weren't YouTubes and Vimeos for me to watch DIY tutorials. I couldn't get a computer for a few hundred dollars and make professional looking videos. I couldn't even afford a camera, let alone any accessories or instruction. It was then that I realized that if I was going to reach my goal, I would have to find a way to do it on my own. As the years have gone by, I have become aware of more and more options. NYFA, DIY Kits and Instructions, Guerrilla Film-Making blogs and tutorial videos, there are many available resources for an aspiring filmmaker these days. Despite the pitfalls and barriers, I have managed to supplement some of the education I need to be a professional in the film industry, mostly because of advances in the internet, video encoding & camera sensor technology. Even when I tally up all of the knowledge and experiences I have collected over the past 13 years, most of it over the past 3, it adds up to much less than what I would have learned in 1 semester at a quality film school.

In the past few years, I have decided that if I ever have enough start up capital or resources, I am going to change the common reality of learning filmmaking...not just for myself, but for all of the low income, college ineligible young filmmakers. The ones who can only dream of a quality education. The ones who can't even afford a computer and a small video camera. The ones who have lost their hope. I want to start a Guerrilla Film-making Network; at first just in a given area, but eventually spanning the entire globe. A group that pools their collective knowledge, experience and resources to make each others projects, films and dreams come to life. A group that works together to put the art, the expression, ahead of everything else. Your post, your idea, is so similar to what I want to do. The community on this message board is so much like the community I wish to build. It is more about an idea, a passionate commitment, than money or prestige. I want to gather as much funding together as I can so I can build a small fleet of cameras. From little $100 dollar pocket HD cams to HDSLRs and Red Epics, I want as many tools and resources pooled together as possible, all for the purpose of working together with people that have ideas, and people that want to learn the craft at every level. Everyone shares what they have and, in turn, what we get. We profit share, and we pay it forward. People can volunteer as, essentially, interns to learn crew positions, pre-production, casting, make-up...anything involved in the process. People can also volunteer donations or investments, things like money, props, locations, legal help, notarization, transportation, food...etc. We all decide what projects to work on, assembling teams from the top down, from project to project. Everyone receives their due credit, and everyone shares in the successes and failures. It is a model that can be applied not only to the art of film-making itself, but to society as a whole. To make it financially feasible, we simply take videography work, split evenly across a given crew, to increase the pool of available money and resources. I want to call it the “Guerrilla Film Network”, and to establish a system of interconnected satellites in locations around the world. It is very similar to cable access in many respects, with obvious changes to adapt to a different market and a newer model of operation.

Let me know what you all think of my idea.

Conor Liam Bolton

PS - It has been an absolute pleasure to frequent this forum. I am glad to finally contribute something to it

Well Conor . . . we won't have you working in the editing department (wink wink). Strong first post!!

I am up for anything Global Group Sourced that has a Charity / Education element to it. Anyone on this thread can send me a friend request with ideas 'n such - from there let's see where it takes us.

 

[Jeremy_Sawatzky]

This is my first post on RU. It is a bit of a BIO post, and a Manifesto / Mission Statement as well, so forgive the length.

I have been visiting this site for three years, since the first time I heard about the red one. I couldn't believe that a camera with genuine full film resolution was available for less than 30 thousand dollars...When I found out that there was a project in the works to develop a camera with comparable features and resolution for under 10 thousand dollars, I realized that my dream of making my own films, without having to be discovered into the studio system, could finally be on the horizon. I grew up poor, and I was home schooled. I never could afford to go to any film school. It was a big deal when my grandparents sent me $50 for my birthday every year. I've never made more than 5 or 6 thousand dollars in a year. My parents are both disabled, so my family has never made more than 10 thousand dollars in a given year, for a family of 7; 5 boys, including me, and mom and dad. We often had less than 5 thousand dollars, when dad was out of the limited work he could get, and we were on welfare and food stamps. Many of those early years, my mother had to make due with two or three thousand dollars of cash to feed us all. We got by on food pantires and the generosity of family and friends. In short, I have always been on the bottom rung of the economic ladder...teetering on the edge of falling off into the category of homelessness and impoverishment. If not for my grandparents buying a 5 acre plot of land for us, we may have had no where to live. As it is, I live out in the middle of nowhere, 5 miles from the nearest 1 stop light town, amongst the beauty and solitude of unspoiled nature. I am a very happy person, don't get me wrong, but it can be rough living on so little, away from civilization.

I have loved film all of my life. When I was a kid, the only entertainment my 4 brothers and I had was playing war with sticks and rocks in the forest, or riding bikes on our dirt road. We could not afford cable television (it wasn't available where we lived even if we could) and we only barely received NBC and ABC, which resembled a fuzzy mess most of the time. We did not have much to watch. Movies, however, were readily available. We had two local rental locations, Rent-A-Flick and Pick-A-Flick. We would only be able to rent movies a few times a week, sometimes less when things were tight, and so we had to make our choices carefully. I remember the thrill it gave me to walk through the store with my brothers, eagerly anticipating what movies we would wind up choosing...sometimes agonizing over the choice as there were always far more choices than we could afford. We had to decide if we wanted the newer releases, or the bargain movies. We usually rented the cheaper movies so we could get more, but sometimes there would be a movie coming out that we had been looking forward to, and since we couldn't afford to go to the cinema, we would have to spend the extra money to get the new release. I remember the agony we'd feel when we went to both places and the new release we wanted was already out of stock...and, conversely, the thrill I felt when I saw that copy on the shelf, sitting there...waiting to be watched. Once a year, my grandparents would take me to spend a night at their house. I would stay in the city, with all the exciting sights and sounds and smells. We would have take out pizza for dinner, a rare treat for me, and they would take me to a movie. My grandparents were generous, they did this, separately and at different times, for every child in my family. I would look forward to the trip all year, and I would eagerly devour the previews of coming attractions on the new releases, wondering what film I would go to see on the big screen.

I have always remembered those days as the most fun and exciting days of my youth. I have come to value the cinema as much as anything in my life. I have never had any doubt about what I wanted to do with my life. First, and foremost, I have ALWAYS known that I wanted to make movies. I want to tell stories that thrill and excite and inspire the next generation of young children; Especially those children that had it hard, like I did. As I grew older, and explored my desire to make films, I began to fully realize the obstacles in my path. There were so many impediments and discouraging realities for someone in my financial situation. My heart knew what it wanted, but everything practical and sane in my mind screamed, shrieked, that anyone who dared venture into a career in film would most likely get lost along the way. The journey was not just long, perilous and treacherous, it was also EXPENSIVE. This was back in 1998, when AFFORDABLE personal video production was still very much in it's infancy. Even a basic camera set up was many hundreds to thousands of dollars to buy. Editing equipment was even more expensive. I didn't have the kind of access to equipment and resources that are available now. I couldn't get a video DSLR package for a few thousand. There weren't YouTubes and Vimeos for me to watch DIY tutorials. I couldn't get a computer for a few hundred dollars and make professional looking videos. I couldn't even afford a camera, let alone any accessories or instruction. It was then that I realized that if I was going to reach my goal, I would have to find a way to do it on my own. As the years have gone by, I have become aware of more and more options. NYFA, DIY Kits and Instructions, Guerrilla Film-Making blogs and tutorial videos, there are many available resources for an aspiring filmmaker these days. Despite the pitfalls and barriers, I have managed to supplement some of the education I need to be a professional in the film industry, mostly because of advances in the internet, video encoding & camera sensor technology. Even when I tally up all of the knowledge and experiences I have collected over the past 13 years, most of it over the past 3, it adds up to much less than what I would have learned in 1 semester at a quality film school.

In the past few years, I have decided that if I ever have enough start up capital or resources, I am going to change the common reality of learning filmmaking...not just for myself, but for all of the low income, college ineligible young filmmakers. The ones who can only dream of a quality education. The ones who can't even afford a computer and a small video camera. The ones who have lost their hope. I want to start a Guerrilla Film-making Network; at first just in a given area, but eventually spanning the entire globe. A group that pools their collective knowledge, experience and resources to make each others projects, films and dreams come to life. A group that works together to put the art, the expression, ahead of everything else. Your post, your idea, is so similar to what I want to do. The community on this message board is so much like the community I wish to build. It is more about an idea, a passionate commitment, than money or prestige. I want to gather as much funding together as I can so I can build a small fleet of cameras. From little $100 dollar pocket HD cams to HDSLRs and Red Epics, I want as many tools and resources pooled together as possible, all for the purpose of working together with people that have ideas, and people that want to learn the craft at every level. Everyone shares what they have and, in turn, what we get. We profit share, and we pay it forward. People can volunteer as, essentially, interns to learn crew positions, pre-production, casting, make-up...anything involved in the process. People can also volunteer donations or investments, things like money, props, locations, legal help, notarization, transportation, food...etc. We all decide what projects to work on, assembling teams from the top down, from project to project. Everyone receives their due credit, and everyone shares in the successes and failures. It is a model that can be applied not only to the art of film-making itself, but to society as a whole. To make it financially feasible, we simply take videography work, split evenly across a given crew, to increase the pool of available money and resources. I want to call it the “Guerrilla Film Network”, and to establish a system of interconnected satellites in locations around the world. It is very similar to cable access in many respects, with obvious changes to adapt to a different market and a newer model of operation.

Let me know what you all think of my idea.

Conor Liam Bolton

PS - It has been an absolute pleasure to frequent this forum. I am glad to finally contribute something to it

Now THAT is a first post. - deserves another quote

 

[Ravi K]

... well I'm the middle of writing a feature that will be shot here in NYC, mostly in Queens.

If you want to know about me, an example of my writing, directing and vision is here http://vimeo.com/14144904

Few of the short films that were very well made. Watched the whole short. Superb writing and direction.

 

[Kyle Presley]

This is a nice gesture Meryem. Thank you.

 

[Jason Comparetto]

I like the "I call, show your cards players" sentiment. that pretty much sums this up. Meryem, has anybody qualified contacted you yet?

 

[Stephen Pruitt]

Well, I've finished one feature that's been picked up by Vanguard Cinema, and a second one that is knock-you-socks-off good that is now about 95% finished. Personally, my wife and I have great stories galore. We're currently writing the scripts of our third and fourth films right now. If this was early 2013, we'd be all over it. Especially since, combining our own RED and gear and everyone else's gear and talents here, I'm certain we could knock the ball out of the part. But, that's honestly as soon as we could move. . . summer 2013.

I love the attitude of this can-do thread. It amazes even old geezers like us (54 and 51).

Stephen

 

[Meryem Ersoz]

I like the "I call, show your cards players" sentiment. that pretty much sums this up. Meryem, has anybody qualified contacted you yet?

Yes, there are a number of good prospects, Jason - people are working on some interesting projects - in various stages of development. I feel very honored that they are willing to trust me with their ideas so readily.

Just to be clear on one point, because I'm understandably getting a lot of requests for money, which is the bottom line to getting any film made.

Let me be clear on this: I have no money to offer.

I have offered my camera and my services on the set. And pre-pro consulting. Other people have chimed in with extraordinary, generous offers (including money) which far exceed my original offer! gotta love this site, you crazy muthas!

It is likely, though not necessarily guaranteed, that I'll find a good project from all of this to support with my original offer - it will be up to all of these generous individuals to decide if they want to jump on, once they know what it is - which will ultimately mean more disclosures directly to those folks, should you, the filmmaker, try to engage the offers.

I'm kinda winging it here, so let's let this process unfold a bit and see who and what is out there. It has been quite intriguing so far, certainly the energy to get a project made with the resources available through reduser is out there....