My coverage of LIFF2018 continues with Tinker producer Tom Bhramayana. Tinker is a sci-fi film that started as Kickstarter campaign which brought in over $100,000. A few year later, it has won 19 best-of awards at festivals around the country, and all three screenings at this year’s Louisiana International Film Festival have sold out.
The term producer has many connotations, but Tom wasn’t just in charge of getting the money. He was also one of the writers, did a voice-over for one of the character, and his other on-screen credits include unit production manager, line producer, travel coordinator, assistant editor, props, locations, and cast. All that to say, Tom has been intimately involved with Tinker from pre-production to post and foreign sales, and he offered lots of helpful filmmaking insights when we spoke a few days ago.
It doesn’t matter what your belief is, it doesn’t matter how you were raised, who you are, if you help people, anybody can do the smallest things and make a big difference in someone’s life.” – Tom Bhramayana
My coverage of #LIFF2018 continues with this interview I did with Tom Bhramayana. Some of the things that we discuss include
- How the filmmakers behind Tinker were able to raise over $100,000 in their first Kickstarter campaign
- The way the filmmaking team shot the film in spurts that were months apart
- How feedback from festivals helped them to refine their film and increase their festival acceptance rate
- What the visual-effects process was like
- What goes into developing a DCP that can be screened in theaters
- How the film was budgeted and how Tom anticipates they will make a profit from VOD and foreign sales
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Films Mentioned
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Mixed Signals (short)
- A River Runs Through It
- Sling Blade
- Tinker
- Trent’s War (short)
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