Independent film financing can be complex but is the most critical first step to getting your work produced. Listen to Sean Covel, the producer of Napoleon Dynamite, one of the most successful independent features of recent years, break down the options and explain the steps to financing a film. In addition, Covel has produced Beneath, Think Tank, 12 Dogs, Broken Hill and more and is a professor at the University of Southern California (USC) in the Peter Stark Program on Producing.