FilmFinancing :

"Unlike most people who teach screen finance, Alan Harris has long experience of working at the coalface of film and TV funding. He can give you the tools you need to get your film funded and help you hit a rich seam of cash.”
Tim Adler, Screen Finance

Overview

A two-day course on the current climate of film finance to provide you with a comprehensive overview of how to finance feature films - from low budget features that break all the rules to multi-million pound, international co-productions. Presented by producer and financier Alan Harris with guest industry speakers, this intensive but informal course develops your knowledge of different film financing techniques and funding sources. It enables you to understand the film marketplace and the key factors essential to getting feature films made, including:

Sources of production finance: - what’s available, how to increase your film’s chances of getting it and how to combine it
Financing overview: demystifying financial terminology and jargon; finance plans; recoupment schedules; packaging; rights
Case studies: 2 producers talk about making their low and medium budget films
International co-production: how to make it work
Sales, marketing and distribution: the role they play in getting your film funded
Demystifying financing and legal facts, figures and terminology
How to close the deal: key legal issues you need to know
Guest speakers: - leading financiers, distributors and fund executives

Who's it for?

Producers, writers, directors and anyone who wants to learn film financing fundamentals and understand how their work fits into the business of making films

Venue: Central London

Course Cost: GBP195 + VAT

Are you eligible for up to 80% off our course through a Skillset Screen Bursary? Find details at www.skillset.org/film/funding/bursaries

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or email us at info@atlanticfilmgroup.com

What our previous participants have said:

"The most worthwhile financing course I've attended by far… and I've attended quite a few. Alan Harris was the ideal moderator." John Needham, Producer

"You come out of this course with two options. A total career change, or rise to the challenge!" Brett Sullivan, producer

"…Everyone should attend an event like this. Not only do you learn a great deal about the business of making a film, you also get to mingle with the very people who have the power to get you where you want to be. At the course I attended there were around 40 producers and fewer than 6 writers. Frankly, I like those odds."
Scriptwriter Magazine

About us

Alan Harris has been responsible for the co-financing of over half a billion pounds of film and TV drama, including The Claim, Spider and Reign of Fire. Alan performs consulting and executive producing roles advising producers on international film structuring. As MD of Atlantic Film Group, Alan produced Dean Spanley staring Peter O'Toole, Sam Neill and Jeremy Northam, The Ferryman, a $7m UK-New Zealand horror film, the USD$7m film The Aryan Couple, 24 Heures de la Vie d'une Femme and Wallis and Edward, a co-production with Company Pictures for ITV. Alan has lectured all over the world for organisations including UCLA Film School, PACT, UK Film Council, Strategics and SPADA. He has also contributed to several text books on film and TV financing.

Atlantic Film Group has gained an international track record in producing, co-producing and financing. It has been responsible for the co-financing of over $100m of productions since it was established in 2000. Atlantic has a slate of film and TV dramas, working closely with partners in Europe, North America, New Zealand and Australia. Atlantic also runs filmfinancing.co.uk, a free financing information website.

www.atlanticfilmgroup.com
www.filmfinancing.co.uk

About our courses:

Our working knowledge of film financing and co-production ensures that our course content is industry relevant, market aware, up to date and delivered in a way that is easy to understand and put into practice. Our industry speakers are all highly experienced, passionate, frank and inspirational.

Sample timetable
DAY ONE

Independent Film Finance - an overview
Underlying rights; film finance terminology and jargon; finance plans; recoupment schedules; legal issues; packaging
Sources of Production Finance
Regional, national and international funds; incentives and subsidies; broadcasters; distributors and sales agents; tax funds; private investors; financial institutions
How different types of finance alter the scale and structure of a film
How to Close the Deal
Legal issues of structuring and closing a film; completion bonders; the paperwork
Case studies
How the sources of production finance are woven together
Discussion of well-packaged films that have failed to close finance and lessons that can be learnt

DAY TWO

Structuring Co-Productions
The international marketplace: a look at different funding structures in key territories; the co-production treaties
Developing international partnerships
Financing and the Sales Agent
Sales agent‘s role; pre and post-sales; key terms; contracts, commissions and expenses
A leading distributor discusses the part the distributor plays in financing
Financing with banks
An explanation of the producer/bank relationship, including discounting of contracts; gap facilities; sales projections; minimum guarantees;
Case Study
A look at film finance plans that have worked and what can be learned

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Traditional Cheque Payments

please complete the online booking form, and send
with your cheque for GBP229.13 (GBP195 + VAT) to:

Atlantic Film Group
Screen House
123 Wardour Street
London
W1F 0UW

email us at info@atlanticfilmgroup.com

filmfinancing.co.uk

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