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Film Producing Is An Expensive Education
When I first met my lawyer I had a rude awakening. She told me the reason she doesn’t represent many ‘new’ independent producers is because they are a lot of work in exchange for little financial gains. The early years are an enormous amount of work (and learning!) and the big paychecks don’t come till [...]
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AFM Case Study: A Killer Pitch Will Get You Everywhere!
It’s time for Part 3 in our series of Film Market Case Studies in the lead up to AFM. My goal with this series is to inspire you by telling others’ stories and showing how they benefited from going to film markets. If you missed Part 2 in our series, you can check that out HERE. Today [...]
Want To Cash Flow Pre-Sales For Your Film?
Whenever the discussion of Pre-Sales comes up, inevitably it leads to this question: “Pre-Sale contracts from distributors are great, but how/when/where do you actually get the money to bankroll production?” It’s a very good question indeed since in reality, when you get pre-sales from distributors they don’t write you a check for the full amount. In [...]
AFM Case Study: Film In Post & Are Your Prepared?
It’s time again for another in our series of Film Market Case Studies in the lead up to AFM. My goal with this series is to inspire you by telling others’ stories and showing how they benefited from going to film markets. If you missed Part 1 in our series, you can check that out HERE. [...]
AFM Case Study: First Timer Experience With Script & One Sheet
It’s that time again! Every summer I like to run a series of Film Market Case Studies in the lead up to AFM in the fall. My goal with this series is to inspire you by telling others’ stories and showing how they benefited from going to film markets. So without further ado, let [...]
Are You Positioning Your Film For Success?
The other day in my newsletter entitled You Don’t Need Financing To Attach Talent, I talked about going out on a limb and packaging your film with ‘name’ talent in order to increase its marketability, even without actual financing in place. And then I received a backlash of responses saying stuff like “no it can’t be [...]