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Green Light Film Funding take pride on honesty and their ability to structure unique funding solutions that are not available in the traditional lending arena. The Funding Options, like those of any other industry, have changed drastically within the last 12 months. However, with GLFF’s combined 34 years of experience they know how to structure these difficult deals in today’s always changing environment. Whether your film has most or none of the funding required this fund can provide solutions that exist outside the traditional sources. Fund’s investors realize the potential of funding films and that your film may be the next "Juno","Garden State" or "Passion Of The Christ". At Green Light Film Funding they eat, sleep and drink film financing. Whether you are a film maker or potential investor we look forward to sharing your vision and working together with you and your team in the near future.      You can submit film projects for funding consideration. GLFF offers some incentives for film producers and various opportunities for investors to finance films  Source-  http://www.greenlightfilmfunding.com/

  Film Finances was founded in 1950 for the purpose of giving guarantees of completion to financiers of motion pictures. At the time, producers of motion pictures were finding it increasingly difficult to borrow money from banks because the producers could not show how budget overages, if any, could be met. The original founders of the company were film producers who had learned that mortgaging all they owned against potential budget overages was not a sound proposition. Film Finances was therefore formed to provide financiers with a service that gave them the assurance that the film would be delivered on time and that the over budget costs would not be the financier's responsibility. FFI has given completion guarantees to all the leading banks involved in the entertainment industry, as well as all the major studios and distributors of motion pictures. FFI has now guaranteed the completion and delivery of approximately 6,000 Feature Films, Television Series, Movies of the Week, Films on Tape, Documentaries and CD-ROM Productions shot in all parts of the world.   Production Evaluation As soon as an inquiry is made for them to issue a guarantee, they request the script, the shooting schedule and the budget.They prefer that all three documents have already been approved by the financiers and distributors of the picture. Documents are carefully examined to be sure on feasibility. When a positive decision is made, a "letter of intent" is issued by them confirming that they are prepared ...

Providence Films and Hamershlag Entertainment Ventures a private Investment Banking firm jointly invested $50 million to produce its slate of feature film and television projects. Hamershlag Entertainment Ventures (HEV) provided funding through a secured credit facility and will assist with obtaining avenues for distribution of the projects. The financing entity, HEV, is an investment banking firm whose central business holdings are in oil and hotels valued at over $300 million. The deal was completed between HEV Chief Executive Officer and majority holder, Mychal Jefferson III, and Providence Films attorney Igbo Obioha of Obioha and Associates. Providence Films is chaired by director/producer Xavier “X” Mitchell. Mitchell says, “Hamershlag has been resourcefully gracious to us in arranging and providing our financing”. Providence wishes to produce thought-provoking original content with an innovative edge and mass appeal Xavier “X” Mitchell is widely respected and extensively experienced in the entertainment industry for over 15 years developing, producing and directing music videos, commercials, film and television such as Laugh at LA. Jefferson feels pleased to work with X. The first film from the venture is “THE BELLE STARS FRIENDLY” Belle Stars Friendly tells the story about a group of prostitutes in urban Guatemala who came to organize a soccer team that went on to challenge one of the top private clubs in the country to what was billed as a ‘friendly’ contest. Providence Films has produced projects such as, Fathers of the Sport, Harlem Tigerman, Laugh at LA and Next Up. New ...

 Investment in new UK film production hit £1.16 billion ($1.85 billion) in 2010, a record for the British film industry, new figures showed. Data from the UK Film Council showed that inward investment from international filmmakers, typically major Hollywood studios locating productions in Britain, reached £929 million, an increase of 15% over 2009. These films included Captain America: The First Avenger, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two and John Carter of Mars. Spending on domestic feature films in 2010 fell to £174 million, however, compared with £224 million the previous year. Box office takings in the UK and Ireland rose two percent from 2009 to £1.08 billion, with Toy Story 3 in the top slot with earnings of 74 million pounds, ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One at 51 million. The Film Council did not provide admission figures. The market share of British films, including UK-US productions), hit 23% in 2010, up from 17% the year before. 3D films grossed £237 million last year, a 24% market share up from 16% in 2009. Tim Cagney, managing director of the UK Film Council, said the figures underlined the importance of the movie business to the British economy. The council is being abolished as part of government cuts aimed at reducing the budget deficit. "The figures ... show how difficult it is to raise finance for making independent British films and, with four of the top ...

Say, one day, you checked your Bank Account, called your family office planner, and after discussion with your financial advisers you decided to invest your proceeds from your latest company's Merger or Acquisition not into some dubious funds or start-up biotech venture, but into financing Hollywood films because you figure you need the State tax Credits, the Federal tax write-offs, as well as a nice hedge of revenues from a few movies. Now, this might not sound too well initially with your hedge fund manager or foreign fund investor but those are the same guys who are financing Hollywood movies. And the only question for you, how do you get in the game without feeling like amateur film financier without real profits. So having done your research, here's what you discover may be the opportunity to further enrich your affluent lifestyle even more- *Sergey Brin And Larry Page Of Google, Fred Smith, the CEO of Federal Express, Norman Waitt, the Co-Founder of Gateway Computers, Jeff Skoll Of Ebay, Todd Wagner (formerly of broadcast.com), Max Levchin Of PAYPAL, Marc Turtletaub of The Money Store, Roger Marino Of EMC Corp, former Chicago bulls co-owner Jim Stern, Sidney Kimmel Of Jones Apparel Group, Minnesota Twins owner Bill Pohlad; Real Estate Developers Tom Rosenberg,;  financiers Robert Sturm, Sheikh Waleed Al Ibrahim, Zeid Masri of SilverHaze Partners,Mark Esses, David Larcher, Michael Goguen, Michael Reilly, Rafael Fogel, and Philip Anschutz are just a handful of high net worth entrepreneurs ...

"We are raising more money not less in the current environment," said David Molner,    chairman of Aramid Capital Partners, which puts together many single-film financing   packages, including one for Oliver Stone's upcoming "W" film." "To be sure, Hollywood has taken a hit from the credit crunch. Months ago, hedge funds    that had poured $15 billion into film deals over the last three years started to retreat." "Those funds, partnered with big banks, had backed slates of movies from studios like Sony Corp's Sony Pictures, Viacom Inc's Paramount and Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros., shouldering some of the risks usually absorbed by studios in return for a share of box office sales." "We've seen hedge funds pull back to some extent, as a number of deals done in the last   two years haven't met expectations," said Burke. Source

"If you look at the history of the film business, a slate of films over a three- to four-year period is actually a pretty good bet,'' Mulligan said. ``There is a portfolio effect that comes into play with the major studios so that the winners more than offset the losers.''  “Kingdom Films attracted hedge funds, an industry whose assets under management more than doubled to $1 trillion since 2001. ``Several years ago, you would have found hedge funds require higher returns to invest'' in film financing, Rafalski said. ``With the heavy inflow of cash into these funds, we were able to structure something that met our needs as well as those of the hedge funds." Source