Posted on January 23, 2012 in Financing | No Comments
Though designed for an independent game design project, Gary Sarli provides a thorough and detailed break down of how to approach Kickstarter in a strategic manner.
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Posted on January 12, 2012 in Financing, Marketing | No Comments
Victoria Westcott shares the five simple lessons from her childhood and how they apply crowdfunding, including raising $20k for her first feature film “Locked in a Garage Band”
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Posted on November 9, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Financing, Marketing | 1 Comment
In Script Notes, John August and Craig Mason talk about how the money flows in a Hollywood Studio and how a theoretical movie studio can make money even if the last 20 pictures it releases looses money.
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Posted on September 14, 2011 in Financing | No Comments
Crowd funding sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are littered with the carcasses of failed projects. Though not a guarantee of success, there’s probably a good chance the unsuccessful pitch may have ignored one or more of these tips…
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Posted on July 14, 2011 in Financing | 2 Comments
This panel by Tribeca Film Institute at The New School addresses funding opportunities for both first-time and more experienced narrative and documentary filmmakers. Panelists discuss foundation grants, investors, individual donors, and nonprofit organizations as sources of pre-production, production, and post-production funding.
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Posted on July 13, 2011 in Contracts and Law, Financing, Producing | 1 Comment
We post lots of stuff about contracts, the law and other boring topics. I believe they are some of the most important articles on IQ. Although it may not be much of a surprise that they are the least read. So, in a effort to provide a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down we created this new series, “Something Educational & Something F*cking Stupid.”
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Posted on July 11, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Financing, Selling Your Film | No Comments
Award winning filmmakers explore their path to festival fame as they illuminate the creative and pragmatic execution of their vision. How did they develop their story, find their funding, and what were creative tools that made their story come to life.
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Posted on June 10, 2011 in Financing | No Comments
How can our friends at Celtx possibly be more generous than by giving away their great filmmaking software for free? Well, now they are also going to give away money to help you make your film!
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Posted on June 9, 2011 in Contracts and Law, Financing | 9 Comments
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday reached a settlement with two advertising executives that used their website BuyaBeerCompany.com along with social networking websites Twitter and Facebook to secure pledges of $200m in an experimental effort to buy Pabst Brewing Company. What does this have to do with filmmakers?
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Posted on May 26, 2011 in Financing | No Comments
Brandon Walter Irvine breaks down some of the basics of Crowd Funding for your film/project.
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Posted on May 9, 2011 in Financing | No Comments
Crowd-Funding is all the rage in certain circles of the film industry. But for an effective campaign you have to look deep down as to why your investor will want to donate to your film.
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Posted on May 4, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Financing | No Comments
In this podcast, Film Financial Jeff Steele talks about how he went from Production Assistant to CFO, how to deal with egos in Hollywood, how to increase your Financial IQ, the three pillars in film and the monumental shift occurring in the democratization of film.
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Posted on April 11, 2011 in Financing | No Comments
Much of the TV, video, film and sport we watch is sponsored by a brand, a product, a corporation. But … why? With humor and persistence, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dives into the hidden but influential world of brand marketing, on his quest to make a completely sponsored film about sponsorship. And yes, this talk was sponsored too. By whom and for how much? He’ll tell you.
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Posted on January 25, 2011 in Contracts and Law, Financing, Pre-production | No Comments
The filmmaker’s role as business operator creates specific duties of care and loyalty to the investors. Because the filmmaker is also an employee of the company and a primary beneficiary of the film project, the filmmaker must take great care to respect these fiduciary obligations and to carefully disclose the various conflicts of interest to the investors before they agree to invest in the project.
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Posted on January 12, 2011 in Financing | 4 Comments
Edward Jay Epstein explores how the changing financial landscape is making it harder to get small independent films funded.
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