Filmmakers and Financing Business Plans for Independents

• Main Author: Levison, Louise (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Routledge 2022
• Edition: Ninth Edition
• Series: American film market presents
• Subjects: Motion pictures > Production and direction; Motion picture industry > Finance
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"This updated 9th edition of Louise Levison's ultimate filmmaker's guide provides easy-to-follow steps for writing an investor-winning business plan for independent films. This new edition includes information on current distribution models and the evolving digital streaming service l...

Table of Contents:

• 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: Streaming and the Wild West of Non-theatrical
• 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 Old Makes Some of the Rules
• 14. Rick's Story "Fini": Independent Filmmaker Rick Pamplin Interviews Himself.