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8 years, 6 months ago - Marlom Tander

Contact IFAs, Accountants and Solicitors. many of them will have clients who might take a punt.

HOWEVER know where they are coming from. While they can, and do, tell people "this is for fun. Most films lose money. But if you like the project, and it works, great. Win or lose, it's a talking point. But we are making no predictions and we are absolutely NOT advising you to invest", they will still need to be convinced that IF you make a great movie, you know how to make that great movie make money. Know how the numbers work at the revenue end - what box office / dvd / netflix sale brings what net revenue to the investors.

No one expects you to say "we'll make X". They do expect you to say "similar films got X box office, so prob Y to investors, A dvd sales so B to investors, and a SciFi Channel sale, prob Q so P to investors. We think our film will stack up against those and if so, investors get..." Be real about what is a similar film. Your 300K one is NOT similar to 5M one UNLESS you really can say hand on heart that on screen production values (inc cast name awareness) are equivalent.

And they expect you to be able to show that you know how to market your film to get the distribution. "We'll enter Cannes and win, and get distribution" isn't a plan. "We have budgeted X for attending A,B,C film markets, and we are condfident of a sale" is better. "Here are letters of interest from Q,P,R distributors who like our project, and we'd expect to close one of them, plus of course enter the main markets and comps" is better still.

As to marketing, I;d call the firms and get a name to write to. Then write an outline, playing up any local aspects (cast, locations, story). Anyone who bites, you meet. If no bites, just phone follow up after a week or so.

Might work, might not, but it's a cheap try. You only need one firm out of 300 to have two interested clients and you're done.

Funds - talk and ask.

Angel investors - various sites and forums but Angels they tend to want to be hands on, and choose projects where they can bring skills/experience as well as money.

8 years, 6 months ago - Marlom Tander

Outline - of the investment pitch, not so much the movie, except in broad brush terms and local aspects.

7 years, 4 months ago - Vasco de Sousa

How did it go? Did you get Granada Nights funded? It looks like production is going forward from your website.

I'd like to ask the same question, if you found the investors, where were they? And also what is this "advance assurance?" Does this mean that your investors are guaranteed that your film qualifies for tax relief?

If it's not too much trouble, can you recommend someone who does this advance assurance thing?

7 years, 3 months ago - Tony Oldham

That’s prob HMRC pre approval