Film Finance Experts Weigh In On Netflix and Amazon

Just as projects require creative and technical collaborators, effective financing is built on healthy partnerships. This session looks at the funding questions from every angle, including not only how to find those essential partners, but how to make sure that you’re protected every step of the way.

Whether you’re raising capital from outside investors and/or banking on foreign pre-sales, this discussion will give attendees a sense of realistic finance goals as well as red flags to be wary of as you push your project to the starting line.
Session Sponsored by: THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Speakers:

Ashok Armitraj, Chairman & CEO, Hyde Park Entertainment Group; 99 Homes, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Charles D. King, Founder & CEO, MACRO; Mudbound, Fences

Jessica Lacy, Head of International & Independent Film, ICM Partners

Bill Mechanic, Chairman & CEO, Pandemonium Films; Hacksaw Ridge, Coraline

Moderator:

Gary Lucchesi, President of the Producers Guild of America; The Lincoln Lawyer, Million Dollar Baby
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The Producers Guild of America protects and promotes the interests of all members of the producing team in film, television and new media.

The PGA has over 8,000 members who work together to protect and improve their careers, the industry and community by facilitating members health benefits, encouraging enforcement of workplace labor laws, the creation of fair and impartial standards for the awarding of producing credits, as well as other education and advocacy efforts.

The Producing Team consists of all those whose interdependency and support of each other are necessary for the creation of motion pictures and television programs.

Executive Producers
Producers
Co-Executive Producers
Supervising Producers
Senior Producers
Line Producers
Co-Producers
Associate Producers
Segment Producers
Field Producers
Story Producers
Production Managers
Visual Effects Producers, Supervisors, & Coordinators
Post-Production Supervisors & Managers
Production & Post-Production Coordinators

[sunlightpictures]

The audio is basically in-audible in the videos I've seen by the PGA. Your subject matter is too important to allow for this. Please fix this issue.

[dunyamedia]

So great to hear from the experts, would love the full video of this!

[stevegeorge]

It was a bit macro for my liking. The devil is in the detail. But the observation on the trend movements mentioned was interesting.

[AlexiOuzas]

Really interesting discussion here. Great points to remember along the journey of film financing

[MassiveSuccessVids]

Third party distrubutors or "aggregators". Worse scum in our industry.

[propertycom]

The experts on the panel, never heard of any of their movies or them 5 yrs later nothings changed
AI can predict trends make genres story structure whats fashionable, from the viewer after crunching data sets from amazon Netflix Apple TV etc but the does not mean the viewer then wants the same genre and story structure set in stone story etc etc
the human the writer director -The Human Brain it's uniqueness to absorb experiences from all over the world over decades is so different to output from Algorithm, the billions of synaptic biochemical processes that occur in the brain at a cellular and then molecular level baked in over time, can never ever be replicated or digitally synthesized artificially

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