Arnold, those are tantalizing lines about financing a movie. I have two first-hand experiences in that field. The first was a piece a friend of mine in Brooklyn made a decade ago on the cheapest of cheap budgets, mainly by calling in favors from friends in the technical end and people like me who could play a part (I wouldn't call it acting!) for free. That movie was intended as a preliminary probe into the medium by a playwright, but has yet to be followed up. The other was five years ago in Germany. A young friend of mine in Berlin made a feature-length movie starring her best friend - a highly regarded actress in Munich - that was financed mainly from grant and award money after she had won a prize with a film school graduation short. Just a couple of weeks before it was scheduled for release it became necessary to make some changes in the final edit and also raise funds to enter it in the Berlin Film Festival; my friend was forced to send round another email appeal to her friends. Luckily, enough was scraped together. The film received very favorable reviews at the festival and was picked up for distribution. She's on her way. But it was a lesson in how the business of amassing enough money to get a film made and shown is something that continues right up until the lights go down.