Consulting

Mark Stolaroff offers personal one-on-one consulting for your no-budget feature project.  Put Mark’s 25 years of low-budget production experience and industry contacts to work for you. Here are the areas he can provide guidance in:

- Camera/Format Selection

- Cast/Casting/SAG Contracts

- Equipment

- Insurance

- Crew

- Locations & Permits

- Legal & Clearances

- Introduction to Post Production Workflows

- Introduction to Festival Strategy, Marketing, & Distribution

- Crowdfunding (i.e. Kickstarter)

He can also give you some idea of the commercial viability of the project (i.e., is the commercial potential of your project in line with the investment?)

He can give you some idea of the artistic merits of the project, (i.e., is this a "festival" or "arthouse" film? A "Sundance" film? Is it unique, or have programmers seen it 1000 times before?)

He will NOT be looking at projects from the perspective of a traditional script consultant, advising how to improve the script; but rather from the prospective of a producer, advising how to get the feature made at a micro-budget level.  (He can recommend script consultants to help with narrative structure, character development, dialogue punch-ups, etc., as well as other experts to aid in post production, distribution, etc.)

The consultation process involves reading your script, reviewing any materials you may have, and meeting in person or via a conference call for a detailed consultation. Following this, he will be available for further consulting as needed.

If you're interested in discussing a consultation, email.  He will arrange a phone call with you to discuss the possibilities.