Inside the Business of Documentaries, With an Oscar Winner w/ Odessa Rae

<p>How do you pay for an Oscar-winning documentary on your own credit card? Why does the person carrying the legal and financial risk of a film get the least credit for it? And why does a $6 million film need an $18 million campaign to win Best Picture? </p><p><br></p><p>Odessa Rae is the Oscar-winning producer of Navalny, and she funded the first four months of it on her own credit card. She walks Poppy through how the money works, from who funds a film to who owns it at the end, and what winning an Oscar actually costs.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>◼️ The $90,000 of credit card debt that funded the first four months of Navalny</p><p>◼️ How film financing actually works, from the investor&#39;s premium to the points on the back end</p><p>◼️ Why the IP of a film sits in its own company, and why an investor never owns a piece of it</p><p>◼️ Three days of Navalny&#39;s last interview sit in a vault, and the filmmakers have no right to them</p><p>◼️ Why the Best Picture Oscar goes to the producer, and why the industry still treats producers as staff</p><p>◼️ What an Oscar campaign really is, and why you fly to a city to screen for two voters</p><p>◼️ Why the money for an Oscar campaign has to be raised as donation rather than investment</p><p>◼️ What a film costs to make now, and why AI is pulling that number down every year</p><p>◼️ Why she was followed for six months after Navalny died</p><p>◼️ How she actually finds investors, and why she keeps the ones she likes</p><p><br></p><p>💜 Stream on Spotify: <a href="https://tr.ee/hgfspotify" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tr.ee/hgfspotify</a></p><p>💜 Stream on Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://tr.ee/hgfapple" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tr.ee/hgfapple</a></p><p>💜 Follow us on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hgf/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/hgf/</a></p><p>💸 Powered by Aave App. Start saving smarter: <a href="https://aave.com/app" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://aave.com/app</a></p><p><br></p>