The last two years I have worked very hard on getting a documentary film off the ground I really really wanted to make. I got a memorandum of understanding from a broadcasting company and with that I (or rather: we, my partner and me) could start writing and raising funds for the film. This was immensely hard. It took the most of the last two years.
We already did some initial filming because some of the people involved already are quite old and we didn't want them to pass on before the film could officially be realised.
We weren't able to raise all of the money we actually needed and because something is better than nothing, we recalculated the budget and settled for a little more than three quarters of the original (and already very tight) budget. Last week, it looked like it all would be going to work out. We had talks with the broadcasting company for the desperately needed extra funding and it looked very promising.
Today, I got the message the broadcaster actually cancelled the support and funding for our film.
Two years of work, research, effort and energy, all for nothing. I am so immensely disappointed, drained and mad. And sad.
A suitable ending for an already utterly miserable year so far.
At least for me it was.
I hope 2017 will be better. It just needs to be.
(Sorry, I just had to get this off my chest.)
We already did some initial filming because some of the people involved already are quite old and we didn't want them to pass on before the film could officially be realised.
We weren't able to raise all of the money we actually needed and because something is better than nothing, we recalculated the budget and settled for a little more than three quarters of the original (and already very tight) budget. Last week, it looked like it all would be going to work out. We had talks with the broadcasting company for the desperately needed extra funding and it looked very promising.
Today, I got the message the broadcaster actually cancelled the support and funding for our film.
Two years of work, research, effort and energy, all for nothing. I am so immensely disappointed, drained and mad. And sad.
A suitable ending for an already utterly miserable year so far.
At least for me it was.
I hope 2017 will be better. It just needs to be.
(Sorry, I just had to get this off my chest.)
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