Top Five Most Common Ways to Finance Your Film - Part III
To close, we describe End-User Financing and Completion Funds Financing. Based on How to Fund Your Film by Robert C. DiGregorio, Jr. imageMATTE Executive Producer
Part III:
End-User Financing occurs when a theater, cable network, or television station contributes money for a project in exchange for an equity percentage in the film’s profit stream. The greatest advantage is that you are in the best position to generate profits because the end-user is creating revenue in its own familiar territory.
Lastly, Completion Funds provide partial financing based on a couple of requirements:
- completion of principle photography,
- entire project complete with the exception of post-production, or
- everything complete except lab fees.
The financiers can have the upper hand in terms of negotiating a better deal for themselves because without them, production may never finish. The advantage to you is that you are able to spread some of the risk to the completion financier.
These are only some of the basic and popular ways of financing your film. There are a limitless number of ways to fund your film.
To get even more detailed descriptions on these financing methods, continue to the link below:
Contributed by Christina Chen,
UC Berkeley student
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