42 - Funding Your First Indie Feature with Tiffany Kim Stevens (Trigger Happy)

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:

2:00 - Tiffany’s feature directorial debut, Trigger Happy 

3:45 - Landing funding and distribution

10:30 - The key element to a good working relationship with a writer

15:40 - Signing with Zero Gravity Management after pitching a movie business plan 

19:00 - Steps of working with managers on the next big project 

21:10 - Tiffany’s early directing endeavors + short film

30:12 - How living in LA impacts creativity / social capital culture

33:33 - What to do if you’re just starting out

35:00 - Are film fes=tivals worth it? 

39:35 - TIME CAPSULE

CONNECT WITH TIFFANY:

Instagram: @TiffanyKimStevens

CONNECT WITH THE SHOW:

All platforms: @NoSetPathShow

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