Funding Your First Indie Feature with Tiffany Kim Stevens

Show notes

Tiffany Kim Stevens's feature directorial debut, Trigger Happy, is currently finishing its festival circuit and will have its Southern California premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival on 10/18/24 and 10/24/24. Tiffany is a USC alum and currently managed by Gavin Lurie and Najeeb Khuda at Zero Gravity Management.
Today we are getting into how Tiffany ended up finding financing for her feature in Silicon Valley, the key things to have in place for a fruitful relationship between director and writer and how a business proposal ended up landing Tiffany representation as a director at Zero Gravity.

Breakdown

1. 2:00Tiffany’s feature directorial debut, Trigger Happy
2. 3:45Landing funding and distribution
3. 10:30The key element to a good working relationship with a writer
4. 15:40Signing with Zero Gravity Management after pitching a movie business plan
5. 19:00Steps of working with managers on the next big project
6. 21:10Tiffany’s early directing endeavors + short film
7. 30:12How living in LA impacts creativity / social capital culture
8. 33:33What to do if you’re just starting out
9. 35:00Are film fes=tivals worth it?
10. 39:35TIME CAPSULE

Connect With Tiffany

Instagram: @TiffanyKimStevens