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December 27, 2022 66 mins

To end the year, we decided to do something a little different. We don't have a guest this episode. Instead, Jessica, Michael and Dan are discussing the 15 ways to make money in this industry. Our mission is here is to help filmmakers succeed from anywhere, and to do so, you gotta make money and a lot of times you need to have multiple streams of income to keep doing this.

We had a lot of fun doing this one, but also hopefully brought up at least one (if not several) opportunities you haven't considered yet! Here are a few links for things we referenced in the episode:

Blackbox (stock footage site)
VLAA (discounted legal services for St. Louis area filmmakers)
St. Louis International Film Festival 
Protect Yourself from Predatory Film Distributors/Aggregators
MAC, RAC, MHC (Grant orgs in MO/STL but similar orgs exist in other states)
Kanopy - Educational Streaming Platform
The Video Project - Dan's Educational Distributor
Heartland Film Festival - Festival gives largest filmmakers cash prizes
The Film Collaborative - Helps secure screening fees for major festival films
Parris Properties (Dan & his wife Sara's Airbnbs)
Speak Up Productions (Dan's documentaries & other projects)
Michael D Francis Presents (Michael's TV packaging company)
Under the Tree Designs (everything Jessica Ambuehl is involved in)

This podcast is sponsored by the MO Film Office (https://mofilm.org) and Shock City Studios (www.shockcitystudios.com) and is brought to you by Speak Up Productions (www.speakupproductions.com) and the In Motion team (www.inmotionconference.com)

Music by Courtney Orlando Peebles of So Hot Productions (https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-jr-peebles-05a2a19/)

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