Independent Film Financing

Traditionally enabled by wealthy investors seeking to reduce capital taxes (<39%) and to obtain higher yields (10%) than those delivered by savings and bonds (1%-2%).

Specialty Film Boutique Banks

Get involved, for a ~2% interest rate and a ~6% commission fee, by picking out film projects with A-List talents or “bankable celebrities” attached as a “guarantee”.

The Success Disconnect

• It occurs when film investors believe that A-List talents are the main drivers for the financial success of films; although celebrities do haul large initial targeted audiences to the premiere, it is the story and its screenplay what really wins moviegoers, since it generates the most effective marketing tool ever: word-of-mouth.
• A-List Talents will read screenplays of Independent film projects from a trusted and known writer-producer-director or from a not yet known producer if at least $1.5M of the production funds are secured.
• When an A-List Talent enjoys a screenplay, he/she will most likely partake in a "low-budget" film [$3M-$10M], at the Screen Actors Guild rate instead of a celebrity salary and will sign a Letter of Intent (LoI), triggering the additional financing at film boutique banks.

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