For independent films today, financing is often cobbled together through some combination of private equity (investment from high net-worth individuals), grant money (here are dozens of sources), crowdfunding (Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, Seed&Spark), tax credits (a rebate/credit given by a state to the production — PDF here), in-kind products and services (e.g. a donated camera package), and sweat equity (people working for free or deferred payments).
All of these sources are well established among producers, so I was interested to attend the SXSW 2016 panel New Financiers: Meet the Film Finance Innovators to see what the “new” and “innovation” part of it was all about. As with many panels at SXSW, which are proposed far in advance and often change panelists multiple times in the lead-up to the festival, the conversation ends up focusing on something other than the title of the panel. In this case, the panel covered “film finance” without focusing as much on the “new.” However, it ended up being a good primer for the basics of pre-sales and crowdfunding.
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