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You've been told there is one way to fund a feature. There are three totally different kinds of money, and each one cost...
10/02/2026

You've been told there is one way to fund a feature. There are three totally different kinds of money, and each one costs you something different.

Comment RESOURCE and I will send you our full financing and grants list.

I have interviewed 250+ women in film and TV since 2016, and this gap comes up constantly. Nobody explains what each type of financing actually costs before you take it.

Chasing whichever investor says yes first. Applying to the same three grants everyone reposts in their Stories. Assuming a loan is always safer than giving up equity. None of that is a strategy, it is just whatever showed up first.

There are three real categories. Money you never pay back, like grants, crowdfunding, and tax incentives. Money you repay but keep the film, like loans, gap financing, and profit share deals. Money that wants a piece of your film, like equity investors, co-productions, and pre-sales.

Our Financing & Grants resource page is a running, verified list, 18 real options right now, checked every 3 months so the links and deadlines actually hold up.

I built it because I was tired of watching talented women spend months chasing the wrong kind of money for their film.

If you left film and TV, or you've thought about it, you probably tell yourself you failed.Comment 'PROFILE' and let's s...
10/02/2026

If you left film and TV, or you've thought about it, you probably tell yourself you failed.

Comment 'PROFILE' and let's see each other's work. This account exists so we back each other, not compete.

It wasn't that you weren't good enough. It was never that simple.

$750 million just went to California to keep productions in state, and none of it touches what a crew member takes home on a day rate. A 2020 UK study tracked 80 women who left TV, and one reason beat every other combined: the job was incompatible with being a parent. 94% of women surveyed in entertainment said they'd been harassed or assaulted on the job, and only 1 in 4 ever reported it. Only 5% of major female characters on TV are 60 or older, nearly half the rate of men that age.

None of this shows up in a tax credit conversation.

Sources:
1. "Newsom signs $750M film and TV tax credit," ABC7 Los Angeles: abc7.com/post/governor-gavin-newsom-signs-750-million-tax-credit-for-film-tv-made-california/16919532/
2. "Gendered reasons for leaving a career in the UK TV industry," Neil Percival, Media, Culture & Society, 2020: doi.org/10.1177/0163443719890533
3. USA TODAY survey on sexual misconduct in Hollywood, USA TODAY, NSVRC, The Creative Coalition, Women in Film and Television, 2018: nsvrc.org/blog_post/usa-today-survey-partnership-nsvrc-reveals-shocking-extent-sexual-misconduct-hollywood/
4. "Boxed In: Women On Screen and Behind the Scenes on Broadcast and Streaming Television, 2023-24," Dr. Martha Lauzen, Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, San Diego State University

You're a woman in film and TV, and you've never once been in the room where any of this got decided.Reply 'VOTE' and I'l...
10/01/2026

You're a woman in film and TV, and you've never once been in the room where any of this got decided.

Reply 'VOTE' and I'll send you the link to check your registration and your state's deadline. Takes under two minutes.

None of it happens in a vacuum.

Film tax incentives, the reason productions choose one state over another, are set by your governor and state legislature. Not Congress. So is the labor board that hears your union disputes, and the funding for your state's arts commission.

Midterm turnout nationally runs closer to 46%, compared to around 66% in presidential years. None of this happens without someone winning a seat first, and right now, a smaller group of people is deciding who gets those seats.

09/30/2026

Dear algorithm, please send me all the women in film and TV who are done being almost.

Comment COMMUNITY and I'll bring you into ours.

Almost cast. Almost hired. Almost the one they picked to direct.

You've watched a crew shut down your block for a day. You had no idea who actually signed off on that.Reply 'VOTE' and I...
09/30/2026

You've watched a crew shut down your block for a day. You had no idea who actually signed off on that.

Reply 'VOTE' and I'll send you the link to check your registration and your state's deadline. Takes under two minutes.

It wasn't a studio.

It was a city council, a mayor's office, or a permitting board. They set the permit fees, approve the street closures, and decide if a backlot ever gets built in your city at all.

Zoom out one level and it's the same story. More than 35 states run tax incentive programs that pull whole productions in, or push them out, after one budget vote, and right now, a smaller group of people is deciding who sits in those seats.

09/29/2026

Patiently waiting for all the women in film and TV who are tired of figuring this industry out alone.

Comment COMMUNITY and I'll add you to ours.

Free WhatsApp groups by craft, region, and where you are in your career, plus a real-time channel for jobs, news, and safety tips from women actually working right now.

Your birth month is your job. Your first initial is your energy doing it. Comment your combo below.Tag the woman on your...
09/29/2026

Your birth month is your job. Your first initial is your energy doing it. Comment your combo below.

Tag the woman on your crew whose combo is unreasonably accurate.

I spent 5 years proving the industry wrong about women in film and TV.Comment GUIDE and I'll walk you through everything...
09/28/2026

I spent 5 years proving the industry wrong about women in film and TV.

Comment GUIDE and I'll walk you through everything this page can do for you.

250+ women profiled. A free way to get seen. A community that isn't fake-supportive. This highlight is your map to all three.

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