Tokenizing Film Finance with Marc Iserlis

Marc Iserlis is a film/TV producer and documentary filmmaker joins Village Global's Head of Investor Relations Olga Serhiyevich (@olgaserhi). Marc is currently building tokenized film financing at Republic, an alternative fundraising platform.

Takeaways:

- Marc’s ambition is at Republic is to allow individuals to join in the success of film production through an equity "fan raise" that allows fans of a particular project to invest directly in its production and share in the project’s success.

- The rise of streaming platforms and recent changes in how films are financed has resulted in commoditization.

- China and India’s film industries are rising stars but the US is still the global leader in big films.

- Telling a good story is perhaps the hardest thing in the world to do.

- An audience appreciates subtlety in storytelling. Writers know the right things to withhold from an audience to make it satisfying.

- Stage is an actor’s medium, film is a director’s medium, and TV is a writer’s medium.

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