I had a meeting today with a guy who writes short stories, and responded to my ad for actors. He showed me some of his stories to see if any would (in my opinion) make good movies. I found one that I told him is doable (the rest don’t seem to have enough visuals). He’s going to give me $50 to rewrite the story as a script. With the other stories, he’s going to give me $50 to re-type them and save them to a disk, because he doesn’t have digital versions of them, just the on-paper copies.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I showed him both versions of the script for the short film I’m going to make. He LOVED it, and asked how much it would take to make such a film. I told him that I’m going to TRY to do it for nothing, but that ideally, I could make it for a bit over a thousand. He nodded, and said he wants to put money into making it!!!!! He told me to get the actual amount that I need to make it, and he’ll see what he can do about fronting the cash!!!!!
My first investor! And for a short film at that! WOOT!!!!!
Good Job!