The year is starting to wrap up, so now’s a good time to plan for how to make your career skyrocket in 2019. If you’re not developing a film, you should be. But if you read last week’s blog outlining why we’re likely going to be looking at a recession in 2019, and what that means for the film industry then you might be understandably nervous as to how you’re going to get your work done. So here’s my advice to you.
I’ve been quoted as saying that investors get the short end of the stick in film investment. They end up putting up all or most of the money, and then are often left with their hands out. They’re the last to get paid on the production, and the system is structured in such a way that it’s almost Impossible to create a sustainable investor class.
I wrote an entire 7-part blog series on WHY film investment is in the tubes, so I don’t need to do that again. This blog will focus on exactly what I mean about investors being the last to be paid, when filmmakers don’t get any profit share until after the investors have recouped. The answer to this question lies in the standard distribution waterfall |
AuthorMy name is Ben, I'm an Entrepreneur, Producer's Rep, and Author. I'm the founder of Guerrilla Rep Media, Co-Founder/CMO of ProductionNext, and founder of Producer Foundry. Together, the organizations seek to help make filmmaking a more economically sustainable endeavor. I am dysic, I have capitalization issues, and the blogs are often unedited. opinions all my own. 
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