Filmmaking is HARD.  Making your first movie is even harder.  You have to gather all of the stuff you need to make your movie, often working with funds that you’ve saved up yourself.  Sometimes you’ll have some additional funds from your friends and family, an inheritance, crowdfunding or some other windfall, but even with any or all of those funding is likely to be tight.  

It’s not just filmmakers who need to understand the business. Investors do too. Here are a few words of advice on the film industry for new investors from an executive producer.

There’s a lot more to Distribution than Filmmakers think. Here are some things I learned at the helm of a US Distributor.

I’m not a lawyer, but I know contracts can be dense, confusing, and full of highly specific terms of art. With that in mind, here’s a glossary of Art. Here’s a glossary to help you out.

There are a lot of terms of art in film distribution. Here’s a primer.

Distribution is expensive, here’s how distributors classify their expenses.

If you’ve got an issue with your sales agent or distributor paying you, it’s not neccessarily on them. (although it might well be.) either way, Its important to understand how money flows in this industry before you go at them.

Financing a film is hard. It might be easier if you break it up into more manageable raises. Here’s an outline on that process.

Every filmmaker wants to see their work on the big screen, but there’s a lot more to it than you may think. Here’s what I learned the first time I played a key role in a theatrical release..

I’m not a lawyer, but even I know contracts are complicated. Here’s a breakdown of the major elements of an indie film sales or distribution agreement.

If you want to make movies, you need money. If you want to raise money, you mist first understand it.

The concept that Film Distributors aren’t telling you the whole truth isn’t unknown. However, the problem is deeper than you may realize. Here’s why.