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Book Description

In this new and updated ultimate filmmaker’s guide, Louise Levison gives you easy-to-use steps for writing an investor-winning business plan for a feature film, including:

    • A comprehensive explanations for each of the eight sections of a plan

    • Full financial section with text and tables
    • A sample business plan
    • A companion website with additional information for various chapters and detailed financial instructions ― advanced math not needed

    • An explanation on how feature documentary, animated and large-format films differ

    • A guide to pitching to investors: who they are, what they want and what to tell them
    • Words of advice: Filmmakers share their experiences raising money from equity investors

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Companion Website Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Controlling Your Destiny
  10. 1 The Executive Summary: A Short Version of Everything
  11. 2 The Company: Who, What, When, Where, and Why
  12. 3 The Film: The Investor Needs to Know the Whole Story
  13. 4 The Industry: The Facts and Nothing But
  14. 5 The Markets: The Spin
  15. 6 Distribution: Theatrical and Managing the Changing Landscape
  16. 7 Distribution: Nontheatrical and the Wild West
  17. 8 Risk Factors: Truth in Advertising
  18. 9 The Financial Plan: How It Works
  19. 10 The Financials: Forecasting Without Fear
  20. 11 Sample Business Plan for a Fictional Company
  21. 12 Breaking the Rules: Documentary, Animation, and, Large Format
  22. 13 Other People’s Money: Them That Has the Gold Makes Some of the Rules
  23. 14 Raising Money: Did Someone Say It Would Be Easy?
  24. Index
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