michaelmcneff

Thanks! I appreciate your help!

I actually did a kickstarter campaign for the project a long time ago, but I think my kickstarter video could have been better and the campaign didn't reach its goal, so it wasn't funded. I may launch another kickstarter and try again at some point.

This project is a short film that has already been shot/edited/scored and is nearly finished, but could use some additional funding to get the visual effects completed. It's a passion project that I think Christopher Lee and Lewis Carroll fans will enjoy seeing finished. I'm not really trying to "sell" the movie in the traditional sense, because I don't think it will ever recoup its costs. I'm just trying to get the movie across the finish line and out into the world, so it's sort of a different situation than most film/tv projects that are aggressively trying to make money.

I should try to get in touch with Netflix via the proper channels, but it will probably be hard to get an agent or manager involved involved with my movie because it is a short film (17 min). I'm currently working on finishing up the visual effects myself, but when I saw this Netflix post on HN I thought I'd take a shot at seeing if my post might reach somebody inside Netflix that could help speed things up.

As far as I know, there isn't an open channel to pitch projects to Netflix. This is because 1) they would get overwhelmed by pitches for projects and 2) because most studios don't accept unsolicited pitches for legal reasons (so that someone who sent them a pitch doesn't later sue Netflix for producing a similar project.

So I think you still have to go the more traditional route of knowing someone within the Netflix development department that you can pitch your project to. Or your agent/manager/producer will need to have that connection to get you in the door. I've been stuck in indie film limbo trying to finish this film because it has a lot of complicated visual effects (which are close to being finished) so I currently don't have a manager or agent who can help to get me in the door at Netflix.

Long shot, but if anyone from Netflix sees this, I'm looking for finishing funds to complete one of Sir Christopher Lee's last films, The Hunting of the Snark, based on the Lewis Carroll story and I would be happy to exclusively license it to Netflix.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1887901/?ref_=nv_sr_1