The producers are raising funding for the film via Kickstarter.

"Then my dad told me that the producer goes out and raises the money, but the director gets to spend all the money."

Under current law, producers can raise money only for a specific production, and must repeat the process for each new event they stage.

The two producers raised $40,000 of the budget themselves, with Monogram providing $140,000.

But it's not simply that producers are raising prices.

If fees were imposed on imported oil, domestic producers could raise their own prices to that level and pocket the difference.

A key reason is that foreign producers are cutting profit margins rather than raise prices and risk losing share in the American market.

Oil stocks suffered from prospects that some producers will raise output.

The producers finally raised about $3 million from British and European financiers.

The nation's leading producers of steel will raise prices an average of about 5 percent.