Feature film funding blends equity, pre sales, public support, sponsorship, and product placement. Learn how to finance a feature with credible packages, partners, and distribution plans.
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Pre-sales for filmmakers involve selling parts of the film’s distribution rights to distributors before the film is completed, providing a promise of future revenue once the film is delivered to the distributors.
Fiscal sponsorship is a partnership between a film project and a nonprofit organization that allows filmmakers to receive tax-exempt status for their project.
Gap option becomes available after other financing options, such as pre-sales, tax incentives, and grants, have been secured, but there is still a shortfall in the budget.
A negative pickup deal is a type of film financing arrangement in which a production company sells its completed film project to a studio or distributor for a fixed price before the film is actually made.