The Future of Film Funding: Predicting Audiences Before You Shoot

About this episode

The episode discusses innovative methods to predict audience engagement and market performance before filming begins.

Send us Fan Mail Imagine being able to understand your audience before you even shoot your first scene… to test your story, evaluate casting choices, and anticipate market performance—all from your script. That’s no longer science fiction. It’s happening now. Benjamin Schnau is a multilingual actor, producer, host, book author and public speaker native in English and German plus conversational French who also built a successful career as a business development and account executive in the tec...

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Guest: Benjamin Schnau

Topics covered

• film funding
• audience prediction
• story testing
• casting evaluation
• market performance

Keywords

• film funding
• audience analysis
• script evaluation
• casting choices
• market trends

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