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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
.... 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...