Ok. There's the funding to begin production. How much more impressive will the pitch become when you say, "Here's a short film, 25 or 45 minutes, the beginning of the longer one I need your help to produce." The film then is PR and product for the museum fundraiser.
The script may be the real task in ordering together all the material you have. Some general once said, "We are surrounded. Conditions excellent. We will attack." Attack, my friend; attack.

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