And who are you?

A tailor sews; a chef cooks – and film producers produce film.  A tailor doesn’t sew a dress and expects a clothing line in return.  A chef doesn’t cook one recipe and expect to receive 5 stars and a fancy restaurant.  So an unknown film producer must earn their worth and not demand from people their hard earned cash and time.  Worth is achieved by constant quality productions and it takes years of mistakes, of trials of learning and growing to make something of substance and it should be reflected in your work.

Being an unknown film producer is not a self-depreciating thing, but actually an internalization of what a new unknown film producer can expect from the industry and from its audiences.

Producing film is not all about crunching the numbers and squeezing the clock for a perfect schedule and budget plan.  Sometimes it’s not about the numbers at all.  Creativity is something to be remembered before the actual filming of a project because many won’t even try to make the film because they don’t know how they can generate profits from it.

But, no one care about the unknown film producer its all about the big time film producer.  For the unknown film producer there lives and work overlap or sometimes they bring their work back to home or their personal life gets invaded with work.  This could be fuel creativity or burn down passions depending on the producer ability to manage.  The distinguishing factor between a big time film producer and unknown film producer is how committed unknown producers are in their projects because it’s the only way they can be made.

Its ok to be an unknown film producer in the beginning, just know that at some point you’ll need to come across someone with either a) experience or b) money.  When you both meet; the one with the money gains experience and the one with experience gains some money.