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	<title>Film Funding Blog &#187; Film Distribution</title>
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		<title>Top 5 Most Common Ways to Finance Your Film (Part II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our description of forms of film financing, we now examine Independent Distributor Financing and Talent Agency Financing. Based on &#8220;How to Fund Your Film&#8221; by Robert C. DiGregorio, Jr. imageMATTE Executive Producer
Part II:
Independent Distributor Financing is a more co-dependent form of financing. Because these distributors are not affiliated with a major studio, when submitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Five Most Common Ways to Finance Your Film (Part I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First in a series of posts dedicated to describing the most common forms of film financing. Based on &#8220;How to Fund Your Film&#8221; by Robert C. DiGregorio, Jr. imageMATTE Executive Producer
Part I:
Soon after an idea for a project first comes to you, start thinking about distribution for the final film.  Your hopes for distribution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlights from the AFM Film Financing Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great post on Johanna Blakley&#8217;s blog over at the Norman Lear Center. She provides an account of the recent AFM Film Financing Conference held in Santa Monica. Some interesting insights into film funding trends:
How do you convince a financer that youâ€™ve got a marketable film?
Once again, financers could care less whoâ€™s directing. The real gatekeeper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Theatrical Distribution Unprofitable for Independents?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of the Film Funding Blog often ask, &#8220;are studios and distributors spending marketing money wildly?&#8221;  This really speaks to an underlying question, is theatrical distribution unprofitable for independent films? 
To address this issue, I thought it might be helpful for me to contribute some perspective on the forces that can shape the P&#038;A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Sell Your Film at the American Film Market (AFM)</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/94/how-to-sell-your-film-at-the-american-film-market-afm/film-funding.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moving Pictures Magazine published a useful step-by-step overview covering how to sell your project at the AFM. The article summarizes the kind of coaching Sharp Angle provides to its clients. Here is the quick overview:

&#8220;Identify the elements that constitute your package and be able to pitch it in a brief period of time.&#8221;
&#8220;Of the 400 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Fund a Frame&#8221; Film Financing is Novel Approach to Raising Money</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/89/fund-a-frame-film-financing-is-novel-approach-to-raising-money/film-funding.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cchen39</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sebastian Michael&#8217;s film, &#8220;the study of bunkers &#38; mounds in a temperate climate (relatively speaking),&#8221; pioneered an inventive new way of film funding. Cleverly named, &#8220;fund a frame&#8221;, this new approach to film financing paved its way to success by basically selling single frames of the film. On its main website, people are invited to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Film Financing Benefits from New Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK Film Council has released a new funding policy for the next three years until March 2010. The policy includes the creation of five new funding projects that are designed to increase public access to films through the increased funding of film festivals and more access to the country’s film history.
For example, the equivalent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Filmmakers in the Spotlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cchen39</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Motion Picture Awards (BMPA) is a competition that started three years ago with the goal of helping independent filmmakers jumpstart their film careers. The awards are tied to several means of film funding. Winners of the competition not only receive money and resources, they also benefit from a variety of other perks, ranging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annual Film Florida Meeting Includes Film Funding Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Annual Film Florida Meeting took place June 6th through June 8th at the Italian Club in Tampa, Florida. Film Florida  is an organization based in Florida that acts as the prominent hub of the entertainment industry in Florida.
The first day of the event included Funding 101, a panel that discussed how feature films [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Hollywood Facing Extinction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have foreign films, user-generated content, and the video game industry sent the major U.S. film studios into a death spiral?
Kirstin Thompson, writing from her homebase at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, nicely summarizes and critiques two recent articles that explore the demise of Hollywood.
Read her article on  David Bordwell&#8217;s Website on Cinema. The full post [...]]]></description>
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