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	<title>Film Funding Blog &#187; Film Financing</title>
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	<description>Film Financing Information provided by Sharp Angle @filmbiz101.com</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tax Incentives Brings Film Revenue to Spokane</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lmccauley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not Hollywood, but Spokane, Washington has a film industry that is certainly helping to spark the economic life of the city. Filmmakers in the area will often spend 85% of their budget locally, and when the budgets reach $5M dollars that can be a significant amount of money.
How does it work? As one local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Most Common Ways to Finance Your Film (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/83/top-5-most-common-ways-to-finance-your-film-part-ii/film-funding.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cchen39</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Film Distribution]]></category>

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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>Financing Your Film Through The Internet?</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/136/financing-your-film-through-the-internet/film-funding.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lmccauley</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Film Financing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a blog post that suggests a few different options for financing films at least partially through internet sites: http://cinematech.blogspot.com/2008/04/internet-film-financing-evaluating.html
Here&#8217;s a short description of the three sites mentioned:
IndieGoGo : Free, but they take a cut once the target goal is reached. 
ArtistShare : So far mainly used by musicians, but at least one filmmaker has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All About the Packaging for Short Film Funding (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/81/its-all-about-the-packaging-for-short-film-funding-part-ii/film-funding.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 03:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cchen39</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Film Financing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Film Grants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiscal Sponsorship]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An occasional series of posts that will discuss the extensive process of putting together a grant application.  
Part II:
When putting together your grant application, the two largest components are the script and the budget. However, the other supporting items can also make or break it.
The synopsis should be brief yet descriptive, and in principle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Triples Film Tax Incentives&#8230; Finally!</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/127/new-york-triples-film-tax-incentives-finally/film-funding.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharp Angle</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Film Financing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Film Tax Credits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month the State of New York put the finishing touches on its new tax credit plan:

NY To Triple Tax Break For Filmmakers
The expanded tax credit comes during tough fiscal times with the hope it will bolster a business Paterson said generates billions of dollars of economic activity in New York each year.
The change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlights from the AFM Film Financing Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/123/highlights-from-the-afm-film-financing-conference/film-funding.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>filmbiz101</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Film Distribution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Film Financing]]></category>

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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 you’ve got a marketable film?
Once again, financers could care less who’s directing. The real gatekeeper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Film Funding No-No?</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/122/a-film-funding-no-no/film-funding.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>filmbiz101</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to film funding, it is a lot harder to finance your film from jail!
 Nov.  9, 2007,  7:17AM
    
Film producer arrested in Los Angeles in suspected movie-financing scam
From the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A film producer has been arrested on suspicion of using bogus contracts with foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovative Film Funding Ideas?</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/112/innovative-film-funding-ideas/film-funding.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/112/innovative-film-funding-ideas/film-funding.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FilmBiz101</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Film Financing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Short films]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for innovative ideas to fund your next project?  Check out two interesting film funding ideas:
Buy a character
and
Movie ticket pre-sales 
For more ideas, also take a look at Carole Dean&#8217;s new book The Art of Film Funding:
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		<title>Film Funding: Gap and SuperGap</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/110/film-funding-gap-and-supergap/film-funding.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/110/film-funding-gap-and-supergap/film-funding.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FilmBiz101</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Film Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Film Financing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The terms Gap Financing and SuperGap financing have been getting a lot of play lately. As these concepts are sometimes hard to succinctly define, I was impressed by this pithy description from the Wikipedia:

Gap/SuperGap Financing
&#160;
In motion pictures, Gap/Supergap financing is a form of mezzanine debt financing where the producer wishes to complete their film finance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Film Funding on the Rise?</title>
		<link>http://www.filmbiz101.com/film-financing/film-financing/86/australian-film-funding-on-the-rise/film-funding.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cchen39</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australian films are getting a boost of financial support. Already rising in prominence in the United States, Australian filmmakers are poised to take advantage of a new film funding plan that provides the Australian film industry with an additional $283 million dollars to pursue its cinematic ventures.
In addition, the government there will soon introduce a [...]]]></description>
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