by Iain Blair

When you’re an indie filmmaker, you need passion for your project  - and plenty of patience and nerves of steel when it comes to financing. “The bottom line is always scary,” says filmmaker Tony Porter, who told me he did “whatever it takes” to help finance his new feature “Prefab doc” which he shot on location in Europe and America. “You sleep in the cheapest motels, use frequent flier miles and so on,” says Porter, a former top editor whose TV credits include such hits as “Blossom,” “Empty Nest” and “Alf.” Scary as it is, “it was time to make a move – the sitcom market just dried up.”

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