Want to improve your fundraising strategy?
Upgrade your fundraising to include both partner funding and crowdfunding. We’ll help you expand your reach and approach funding in new and effective ways.
Save a seatSave a seat Watch the RecordingWant to improve your fundraising strategy?
Upgrade your fundraising to include both partner funding and crowdfunding. We’ll help you expand your reach and approach funding in new and effective ways.
Save a seatSave a seatWatch the RecordingWant to improve your fundraising strategy?
Upgrade your fundraising to include both partner funding and crowdfunding. We’ll help you expand your reach and approach funding in new and effective ways.
Tired of asking your friends and family for money or applying to the same old grants?
Join Carole Dean, President of From the Heart Productions, and Keith Ochwat, Founder of Show&Tell, for this essential fundraising conversation.
They’ll discuss:
- how to effectively crowdfund and raise funds from partners
- how the two strategies can reinforce each other, so you raise more
- the most serious fundraising errors filmmakers are making
About Your Instructor
About Your Instructors
Keith Ochwat
Keith is a filmmaker and Founder of Show&Tell. Over his 12 year career as a documentary filmmaker, Keith produced three films that appeared on PBS and Netflix.
His film Age of Champions screened in over 3,000 communities and generated over $1.5 million—powered by partnerships with groups like AARP and the Alzheimer’s Association and companies like Cigna Health.
Since starting Show&Tell, Keith has taught and advised hundreds of filmmakers on their distribution and fundraising strategies helping his community of filmmakers raise over $25 million and counting in PBS sponsorships, partnerships, educational licensing and more.
He's delivered keynote presentations on distribution at filmmaking organizations like IDA and IFP and his work has appeared in IndieWire and Documentary Magazine.
Carole Dean
Carole Dean is a producer, as well as the author of The Art of Film Funding Second Edition & The Art of Manifesting: Creating your Future.
Carole is an Entrepreneur who created and ran a film business in Hollywood, NYC and Chicago for 33 years, she sold it in 2001.
She created the Roy Dean Film grant in 1992 and has given over $2,500,000 in grants to independent filmmakers and helped to produce over 70 films through the grant.
Carole is currently the President of From the Heart Productions, a 501C3 non-profit, where she manages the Grant and fiscal sponsorships for the non-profit; and she teaches Intentional film funding with Tom Malloy through FromtheHeartProductions.com.
Her 2020 book, How to Fund Your Film is a 3 hour class and Ebook. She produced and co-edited the book, Exceptional Filmmakers.
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