Finance

The most difficult part of getting a feature film up is of course raising the finance. Making a movie is, unfortunately, a very expensive business. Currently the market is as tight as the proverbial, with some of the studios having taken big hits, and distributors about as risk-averse as it's possible to get.

One of the concerns in such climates is that people retreat to what they imagine to be 'safe' - genre movies following tried and tested patterns. Bread and circuses to distract the masses from the difficulty of their lives. What suffers in such circumstance are the truly original and creative projects, which by their nature take audiences down unexplored paths.

The Insatiable Moon is one of those films. We've had to be extremely creative about our finance plans in order to get it moving. One of the necessary steps was to pare the budget to the bone. Another is to trawl our contacts for equity investors. We're looking for people who are willing to take the risk of investing in something which has no guarantees, but is one of those instances when money works for the good of life.

Perhaps the current 'recession' is a useful reminder that life is not completely summed up in financial terms. Certainly that's something which Arthur, hero of The Insatiable Moon, would want to get across...