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Written by Michael R. Barnard
The Internet enlarged the playing field for securities offerings, whether valid or not, and for potential investors, whether knowledgeable or not.
How do you legally and ethically access that hoarded cash and encourage its investment in your well-developed movie project so you can hire people and make your movie? [...]
Written by Michael R. Barnard
FILMMAKERS, IT’S 2013. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR JOBS ACT IS?
Part 2 of 3 parts.
For the definition of “Accredited Investors,” see http://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/secg/accredited-investor-net-worth-standard-secg.htm
In simple terms – explanations that are more complex require attorneys – the process to raise money for your movie by legally offering securities is referred to generally as a “Private Placement Memorandum,” which usually costs about $15,000 or more in time and fees.
When you have your expensive PPM, what can you do with it? [...]
I’ve written about this before, and I am sure I will write about this again. It keeps coming up, both with my own projects and with those I consult on.
I think it is really simple and it is based on both experience and common sense.
It is my belief that there is only one chance to show a script where it will have real impact — and that is when it can be portrayed as “inevitable”. That is usually when there are both talent and finance commitments — the two components that make a dream real for the industry.
The ideal time to submit a project is [...]
By Jon Plowman
How do you turn your passion for film into a profit? How does one take all that experience built up on non-paying indie projects, and turn it into a career? I’m glad you asked. Welcome to the second part of a two-part article on indie filmmaking.
It seems to me that a lot of filmmakers are chronically losing sight of a very simple fact: there has been a total revolution in the film industry in the last few years. [...]
By Jon Plowman
Ted asked me for this article last year. I agreed, because there are a couple of important points I’d like to put out there to encourage filmmakers in the same kind of position as I find myself. But before I could actually get around to writing the damn thing, I found myself retrenched. That’s “laid off” to most of you. I lost my job. Yeah, you know the one I mean, the one that actually pays the bills while I work on movies. My boss gave me a sob story about how he couldn’t afford to keep me on because the business was struggling. He has a wife and two small kids, and his business was their sole income. I couldn’t blame him. We feel the global recession here just as keenly as the US or Europe. So there I was, out on the street with R150 in my pocket. To put that in perspective, R1 = US$0.15, give or take.
Welcome to life as an indie film maker on the southern tip of Africa. [...]
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