Is crowdfunding for your indie feature film giving you minor heart palpitations? We get it! We’ve done a few ourselves, and we still think raising funds via Kickstarter sounds daunting. So we’re bringing in a pro to walk us through all the ins and outs of the successful campaigns she’s been a part of over the years. We are pleased to introduce you to Paul Rhodes. Actor, Director, Producer, Paula is the ultimate go-getter. You may have seen her in any number of commercials or heard her voice in some of your favorite video games and cartoons. What we are really jazzed about is her feature film, “Delicate State”, that was made possible in part by crowdfunding. And seriously, Paula just gives great advice when it comes to this stuff. We’re thrilled to get to pick her brain.

Paula Rhodes loves challenging the pick-a-lane mentality and has stretched her creative wings in various areas from playing a stable of characters that includes Resident Evil villains and two of Barbie's sisters, winning awards for screenplays, producing multiple series, directing a feature film over the course of her pregnancy that went on to win the Audience Choice Award at Dances with Films and get global distribution, and which currently has her helping the Witches to burn back with @burnedmovie.

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Money makes the world go round. And it sure makes producing a feature film a whole lot easier. We are still deep in the development phase of our feature film, and we’re at a critical juncture… MONEY and BUDGETING. “Where's the money gonna come from?” Sets. Camera. Crew. Post Production. It’s all gotta be paid for, and the last time we checked our personal bank accounts, we were a few million short of the typical movie budget. So, how do we do this?!?! How much is this really going to cost? How do we get the money we need??? And when we get it, what do we do with it??? We are diving in! Budget. Funding. Greenlighting ourselves. Let's make it happen.

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Many independent feature films are led by a director who has also penned their screenplay. So, what should you do if you have a script but aren't a director yourself? The answer is to find a director and do so early in the process. For us, a key part of building our core team was finding a director who was a good fit for “Turns Out” and our specific brand of comedy. Fortunately, we connected with the team from Evening Squire Productions while showcasing our short films at various festivals, and one half of the Evening Squire team is the very talented Director Mike Hayhurst. Fresh off making his first indie feature, “And Through the Portal We Go,” we have loads of questions about what a director does at this phase of a film's development. WHAT IS IT YOU DO, MIKE??!?!

Mike Hayhurst is an award-winning director and producer for film and theatre. Born and raised in the UK, he co-founded Evening Squire Productions in 2016 and has created multiple award-winning short films including BEAT; Cook With the Heart (currently in development as a feature film); Upside Down Plain Face; 15 Down; Oma starring Lynn Cohen; and The Pits, a live-action puppet short about a lonely avocado in NYC that Frank Oz called “really good and very sweet.” Most recently, his proof-of-concept mockumentary about professional Finnish hobby horse, Ava Keppihevonen, went viral and generated over 14.5M views.

His directorial feature debut, And Through the Portal We Go, premiered in 2024. Additional feature credits include Buck Run, The Trip to Bountiful with Cicely Tyson, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short with Whoopi Goldberg.

Previously, he spent four years as an Associate at Bill Haber’s Ostar Enterprises (Rizzoli & Isles, TNT; Beauty and the Beast, CW; Nothing to Hide, directed by Neil Patrick Harris at Signature Theater; various Broadway projects).

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