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20% Off Early Rate! Entertainment Finance Event LA – Special Rate Ends Dec 21

Hurry! Offer ends December 21! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/entertainment-finance-forum-registration-52511887469?discount=FEST21   Whether you’re an investor, creator, producer, distributor, innovator, strategy executive or advisor in the entertainment industry -- join this unique platform to help you connect, evolve and thrive in this rapidly-changing market.   ENTERTAINMENT FINANCE FORUM (EFF) is a comprehensive program unlike any finance conference being offered today. ...

European Film Forum creates buzz with public conference and showcases

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Financing films in the European Union is more of a complicated issue than ever.  The European Film Forum recognizes this and is hosting meetings in Cannes with professionals.  The goal is to exchange views and debate with professionals and stakeholders for inspiration.   The main public conference on Monday May 16th was a huge success and covered many topics under financing European works in the digital age.  Dimitri Rassam, a French film producer, spoke with the p...

Deadline Approaching - Feb 29th - We fund you to collaborate!

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Best Short Film Competition - EVER!   Writers judge filmmakers and filmmakers judge writers. It’s that simple! We fund you to collaborate. We let the community decide.   Up to $10,000 for the short script. Up to $25,000 for the filmmaker to shoot it.   Writers can't judge writers.  Filmmakers can't judge filmmakers. Everyone receives a massive amount of feedback.   The filmmaker owns 100% of the film. Writersandfilmmakers.com owns 0%.   Visi...

Animation Production Day 2014 – Looking for submissions of animation projects

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Animation Production Day (APD), an event hosted by FMX 2014, Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia (April 22-25, 2014) and the 21st Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (April 22-27, 2014) takes place on April 24 and 25, 2014 for the 8th time. It is an event by Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and Film- & Medienfestival gGmbH. As a business platform for the international animation industry the APD invites production companies worldwide to submit their animation and digital con...

We will be on FOX TV!!!

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We applied and were accepted on a Crowd Funding Television show! We don't actually need funding, but love the exposure! Writers and Filmmakers.com will be featured on FOX 29-WUTV Sunday the 29th at 11:30am!  RIGHT BEFORE NFL SUNDAY FOOTBALL! RIGHT BEFORE NFL SUNDAY FOOTBALL! RIGHT BEFORE NFL SUNDAY FOOTBALL!   We are slowly starting our marketing campaign...because the back-end of site is still under development! The Front facing is nice...chec...

Short Film Funding - Really?!?!

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Short film funding is hard to find. Why would you fund a short? Well for a very small entry fee a filmmaker can receive $ 25,000 (US) to shoot a short. The winning script will receive $10,000 and get their film made by the winning filmmaker. Its like a dating website for writers and filmmakers. You receive lots of coverage (feedback) on your work and entries are limited! We have been recognized by the Irish film board! And will be airing on fox tv soon! We launch in January! Check us out! Writer...

Writers and Filmmakers.com

We Fund Writers and Filmmakers! Writers judge filmmakers, filmmakers judge writers!  Winning writer gets their script made by the winning filmmaker!

The PROBLEM!

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The Filmmaker Problem: Funding. The screenwriter Problem: Finding Production. Solution: Writers and Filmmakers.com ...

The Appeal of Investing in Films

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Are films a good investment opportunity.  I think they are for the right kind of investor.  Here’s why.  I have written this in a Q&A style to answer the major questions that prospective investors ask about whether to invest or not.   1.   Why is film investment an attractive investment opportunity?  Is it because of the high return or because of the nature of business?               For many investors, the high return is a bi...

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Poster of Antisex - musical comedy - Russia

Global Film Finance 10 Workshops series in Cannes: 19-22 May 2007

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New ways of financing and effective distribution for the film industry: 19-22 May 2007International filmmakers can benefit from a growing range of tax incentives and public funds as well as from newly established private equity funds. By integrating brands into their film they can create valuable cross promotion effects, relieving their budget, while Video on Demand platforms enable them to distribute their films worldwide to targeted audiences.International experts will help you to stay on top ...

AFM 2006 Gets Going

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By Liza Foreman Los Angeles – Although the main business here is film, the 27th American Film Market (AFM) managed to produce plenty of records Wednesday. 435 companies from 36 countries are exhibiting this year, with 592 films screening: that’s up from 534 titles last year. All in all, the number of films screening has increased by 50 per cent over the past three years. The figures represent all-time highs for the annual film market, which runs 1 – 8th November 2006. Part of the growth mu...

International Documentary Conference Opens

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Wednesday, June 14---As the SILVERDOCS festival entered its first full day of programming, today was also the start of the very ambitious International Documentary Conference, which brings together an illustrious group of film and media professionals who will address topics of interest to the dozens of documentary filmmakers and distributors who are attending this year's event. With 30 sessions over 4 days, this is an unprecendented "intensive" for all those interested in where documentary film ...

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