 Deitch raised the $1.5 million needed for the production budget with a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and sales of $15,000 shares to stock brokers and individual investors.The largest group of investors were lesbian and feminist women in several cities of the U.S., and the largest single investor was a gay man.She gave fundraising parties and published a regular newsletter to keep investors informed about the project's development.