Leaving aside any possible ways you could have used the money more wisely, the simple fact is that many of the things you want doing can be done for free.

You could download the CS5 Master Collection for free right now (albeit illegally).

Within a few hours you could be editing the film. You'd have full access to a color suite, soundbooth, adobe premiere pro with full native support for 5D files. (Plus website and graphic design software).

For the music you could use royalty free music such as this:

http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

There are numerous template based website creators that are absolutely free.

Twitter, Myspace, Bebo, Facebook, blog sites are all free avenues of advertising.

There are even quite a lot of free film festivals. You can usually enter them through withoutabox...for free.

So really, you only absolutely need around $10 for a few blank DVD's to get your film finished.

As a filmmaker myself I do understand how hard it is without having money, but you're going to find it hard to raise the cash in the way you've approached it because everyone is in the same boat and most filmmakers have to do everything themselves.

All the best with it though.

Rick.

Rick,

Thank you. I am going to check into a lot of that right now!

Quoted from Grandma Bear If I was going to donate money to a project, I would rather support someone who I either know or at least am familiar with.

Pia, I have a script about zombie parachutists, called Drop Dead Zone.  You have my address for the check.


Phil

I thought you didn't like the skydiving zombie idea?

I didn't like yours.  Mine rocked!


Phil

lol.