1129: The Truth About Financing a Documentary with Film Maker Wendy Sachs

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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What does it cost to produce a documentary? Can you get rich selling a project to Showtime or Amazon? Wendy Sachs recently pivoted from her career as a bestselling author and speaker to produce a documentary. She spent three years on the road following the political campaigns of, among others, Lauren Underwood, the youngest Black woman to ever be elected to Congress. Fresh from that experience, she's on So Money to discuss the behind-the-scenes reality of raising money for her project and how she ultimately negotiated deals with two major streaming channels. Her documentary, Surge, is about the record number of first-time female candidates who ran, won and upended politics in the historic 2018 midterm election. It premiered on Showtime this fall and is currently airing on Amazon, as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Money
0:02.8	Sacks, creator of the documentary, Surge.
0:07.0	You're listening to So Money
0:09.0	with award-winning Money Guru Farnu
0:11.0	Farno Shorabi.
0:12.0	Each day, get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, and from Farnuos yourself.
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0:27.0	Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life.
0:30.0	Welcome to So Money. I think I was just so taken by what was happening around the country, you know, in a very diverse group of women all running for the very first time all different
0:44.0	ages all different backgrounds it to me was just not just transformative and what it meant
0:49.2	for politics but what it meant for women.
0:52.0	Welcome to so Money everybody.
0:54.0	I'm your host, Farnish Terabi.
0:56.0	Wendy Sachs joins us again on So Money.
0:59.0	She first came on the show back in May 2017 at the time released her new book Fearless and Free about
1:06.5	professional women and their career pivots and Wendy herself has conducted her own professional pivot going from her life as an author and speaker.
1:17.5	She's now the creator of a new documentary called Serge, which chronicles the record number of first female candidates who ran one and upended politics
1:26.8	in the historic 2018 midterm election. It premiered on Showtime in September and is currently airing on Amazon as well.
1:35.4	Wendy takes us behind the scenes of producing this documentary as a first timer,
1:40.8	raising money, the ups and downs, and why she is hopeful for the future of
1:45.7	politics and the role that women will play. Here's Wendy Sachs.
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