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<fs smaller>**AXANAR: CONFIDENTIAL** Producer Alec Peters broadcasts live on YouTube.</fs> <fs x-small>//Image/Axanar YouTube channel//</fs>

<fs x-small>MARCH 15, 2019<wrap indent> | </wrap><wrap indent> 2 MIN READ</wrap></fs>

====== Peters Plans to Keep Finances Secret for Axanar Short Films ======

**//Despite previous financial problems Axanar producer says he doesn't want 'people mucking up in my business'//**

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**No financial accounting**: In this week's //[[yout>OsbqEB0ipCY?t=2535|Axanar: Confidential]]//, producer Alec Peters tells viewers not to expect financial reports on the long-awaited //Axanar//short films despite him seeking other people's money to fund the production.

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<fs smaller>**//See also: [[studio-financials|Thin Financial Report and a New Crowdfund Campaign]]//**</fs>
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[{{ :captain-peters-1.jpg?150|**Alec Peters**}}]

===== Information Blackout =====

Peters says he's not interested in having his spending examined by anyone:

<WRAP>//**__« We're not going to tell you what budgets are going for, where [the money's] going or how we're spending it. … I don't need anyone mucking up in my business. »__ **//  <wrap indent>//— Alec Peters, Axanar: Confidential//</wrap></WRAP>

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=== Private Fundraising ===

Under terms of the [[:axanar_settles|settlement]] with CBS and Paramount in their 2015 copyright infringement suit against him, Peters can't raise money for //Axanar// publicly. He needs about [[:production_update_3#depends_on_funding|$250,000 in private funding]] raised by direct contact with fans — money there's no way to account for without him volunteering financial data.

==== Previous Financial Record ====

Peters' intentions stand in direct contrast with his previously avowed dedication to [[:annual_report#a_pattern_of_obfuscation|openness and transparency]]about Axanar's finances. His previous financial reports to donors were [[:studio-financials|devoid of documentation]] and raised [[:annual_report#axanar_budget_questions|serious questions]] about accountability.

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<fs smaller>**FAST FORWARD TO 42:15** in //Axanar: Confidential// episode 8, where producer Alec Peters explains he won't be sharing financial information about the forthcoming Axanar films.</fs> <fs x-small>//Source/Axanar YouTube channel//</fs>
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=== No Scrutiny ===

Peters especially wants to keep CBS from knowing what he's doing, saying, "I don't want CBS' lawyers saying, 'you can't do this, you can't do that.'"

  * **Standing by the settlement**: "I know what the settlement says," Peters explains to viewers. "I'm going to live by the settlement."

===== Why it Matters =====

As he prepares to embark on yet another campaign to raise money from fans to pay for his production, Peters now promises even less accountability than before. Crowdfunding donors have received virtually no documented accounting for where their $1.2 million went — other than //not //for production of the //Axanar// feature film. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}

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