Interview w/Bron Theron, writer/director of Pancake Man

so do you have uh plans right now for what you're going to do next with these collaborators

uh yeah right now i just finished a um a pilot for a zombie uh story which is very shauna the deadish it's very comedy horror comedy

all right

um and a lot of them are in this one and then i have a rom-com that we're planning on doing after this this is kind of a shorter project a littler project but uh I don't think I ever have a shortage of projects.

It's a shorter of budget.

You just got to figure out where you're getting the money to make these things.

That's all.

yeah so speaking of of budget you raised money for this on indiegogo um looks like you raised about 35 000 which is a nice chunk for a movie raising money on indiegogo and so my two questions that occur to me there are one uh was that the bulk of the funding for the film Or did you also find, like, significant private investors? And two, why Indiegogo specifically? I've noticed that it's really popular among filmmakers, and I'm curious what sets it apart from a platform like Kickstarter.

Well, okay, so first...

We did two campaigns, so I think you're reading one of the campaigns.

So I think you're right, though.

One of the campaigns did 35, and I think the other one did 10 or 15 or something.

Yes, I see it now.

We had a little bit of, you know, we had two campaigns, and then we had a little bit of private people putting some money in.

And then I put a lot of my own money in to finish the film.

Okay.

So it was definitely a struggle as far as finances go.

The reason I use Indiegogo is because you get, well, the difference, the main difference that I've noticed is Kickstarter has a thing where you have to make your goal to get your money versus Indiegogo, you don't have to do that.

um you get your money no matter what and then after a certain point you can go into you can keep going so you can go past your goal uh deadline so you can keep raising money and keep raising money I think I've just been a part of Indiegogo longer.

I'm sure there's successful stories on Kickstarter and Seed&Spark.

There's a few other ones that popped up too.

I mean, anything that works, I would say use it.

You know, like I'm not really... telling you one is better than the other because I don't have the experience on Kickstarter.

But I do know more people on Indiegogo.

It's kind of a smaller world.