Book description
In this new and updated ultimate filmmaker’s guide, Louise Levison gives you easy-to-use steps for writing an investor-winning business plan for a feature film, including:
- A comprehensive explanations for each of the eight sections of a plan
- Full financial section with text and tables
- A sample business plan
- A companion website with additional information for various chapters and detailed financial instructions ― advanced math not needed
- An explanation on how feature documentary, animated and large-format films differ
- A guide to pitching to investors: who they are, what they want and what to tell them
- Words of advice: Filmmakers share their experiences raising money from equity investors
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Companion Website Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Controlling Your Destiny
- 1 The Executive Summary: A Short Version of Everything
- 2 The Company: Who, What, When, Where, and Why
- 3 The Film: The Investor Needs to Know the Whole Story
- 4 The Industry: The Facts and Nothing But
- 5 The Markets: The Spin
- 6 Distribution: Theatrical and Managing the Changing Landscape
- 7 Distribution: Nontheatrical and the Wild West
- 8 Risk Factors: Truth in Advertising
- 9 The Financial Plan: How It Works
- 10 The Financials: Forecasting Without Fear
- 11 Sample Business Plan for a Fictional Company
- 12 Breaking the Rules: Documentary, Animation, and, Large Format
- 13 Other People’s Money: Them That Has the Gold Makes Some of the Rules
- 14 Raising Money: Did Someone Say It Would Be Easy?
- Index
Product information
- Title: Filmmakers and Financing, 8th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2016
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317366041
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