Ten Ways to Finance Your Film

June 1st, 2009

Money is an integral part of film production.  Movie producers often look for people or businesses that will make an investment into their film.  However, the motion picture industry is known by investors as being very risky.  A film has to recover enough money in sales to cover all the expenses involved in pre-production, shooting, post-production, and marketing of the movie.  Since an investor will see your film as a gamble, you can increase the odds for investment if you can show that you or your producer has a good record or experience in past film productions, casts a recognizable movie actor, and has a script featuring the movie in a popular genre.  You have ten prmary methods for financing film project for money:

1. Partnerships in Joint Venture or Limited Partnership.
2. Corporation
3. Development Financing
4. Equity Financing
5. Foreign Financing
6. Investment Contract
7. Fractionalization
8. Grants
9 Network Financing
10. Bank Financing