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To all who have chosen to join this group now and in the future, welcome. Your input is appreciated and encouraged. Let's get the dialogue started and please...
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Here is a link to a conference at the end of Jan 2006 in Los Angeles for the Atlas Information Group film financing conference. Members that attend should...
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Wiz Productions is seeking $100k for the purpose of packaging (crewing and casting) two features. Each could be described as a chick flick masquerading as a...
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I've produced successful and award winning films in my almost 20 year career and now, under my own company, I'm going to produce some more quality indie films....
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Film_F_and_I group. File :...
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Thank you to all who have joined. Please spread the word. I will be up0loading info to files section and I encourage everyone to do so. The information we...
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Bill... Could you post the link again for people to join this group? I want to forward it to a couple of friends. Thanks, Dorez http://www.career-in-film.com...
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Here you go. _http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Film_F_and_I/_ (http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Film_F_and_I/) Sincerely, Bill Baker ...
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The new motion picture tax incentive law in Belgium apparently lets investors deduct 150% (that's one hundred and fifty percent!) of their film investment from...
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Hello everyone, I'm new to the group. I was wondering if anyone could talk to me about raising money for a project I'm working on. Trying to see if I missed...
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Sam, Can you be more specific with what type of project you have, who your audience is and how your project will recoup the investors investment. Bill Baker ...
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To all, Sam has posed a good question which brings me to my request. I would like to see the forum dialogue begin with everyone throwing out their ideas and...
Bill Baker
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I've heard of funding parties, but I'm not sure how they work. Can someone enlighten -- Steven Gladstone New York Based Cinematographer Gladstone Films ...
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Basically, you invite folks with means to a party, pitch them, and have materials there for them (script, investment contracts, fact sheets, etc.). I show my...
Corrie Moore
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I'm pretty new to the whole film financing area. I'm a screenwriter so my job was always one of writing something that had either got the finance or of...
Lawrence Gray
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Does anyone have experience with writing business plans for a feature film or a TV pilot. Was the business plan used successfully to raise the money for the...
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Hey Lawrence. I'm at the exact spot as you. A screenwriter.... learning the production side. I've started a ProdCo as a DBA under another one of my companies....
Chad Sekerchak
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To follow up on one of Lawrence's questions. I've got a script, life-rights, and book rights to a great script based on the Nuclear Power industry. The movie...
Chad Sekerchak
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I've co-produced a project with private money and I can tell you, it can be a bigger hassle than it's worth. But, the money was completed and was purchased by...
Dorez D
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Chad, if you can get $3M just from your script, it shouldn t be an issue to get talents attached and if your partners are "insiders" they can probably will...
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Hi Lawrence, I ended up in the same situation you described, I had an advance from a sales agent, and a major private investor lined up to put the rest of the...
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.... this happens all the time. If someone at one of the major agencies really likes a project, they can try to package it (add stars, add a director or DP,...
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I'm across a different Pond... The Pacific. I'm in Hong Kong where all financing problems are multiplied and the prospects of English language production very...
Lawrence Gray
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Don't think my blood pressure would hold up under those circumstances. I like to live in an ivory tower, smelling roses, and thinking great thoughts that a...
Lawrence Gray
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A banker from one of the film financing funds that I met at a conference told me that if I wanted to make sure all contractual obligations were fulfilled and...
Lawrence Gray
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Here's one of my anecdotes from quite a few years back: I got involved in an indie project that was initially funded by private investors that sought out the...
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Thanks so much for sharing this experience. I think it is enlightening for those who didn't know the difference between company financing and project...
Dorez D
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