Your script is ready. Your pitch may not be. Ten minutes on the five mistakes that get producers a pass, then fifteen minutes of your questions, answered live.
How to produce and fund a film, from someone who funds films.
Most people teaching film finance are producers telling you how they raised money once. This is the view from the other side of the table: what a financier hears, and what gets a yes.
Investors want to know how much they’re covering, what protects their money and how they get paid back, before they hear about your cast.
Real independent films are funded in layers. Learn why investor money should be the last money in, not the only money.
“The next Paranormal Activity” isn’t a projection. Learn what a sales agent’s estimates are and why investors ask for them.
Selling a piece of your film to investors is usually a securities offering. Learn why that matters before you accept a dollar.
A 35% state credit rarely puts 35% into your budget. See what it’s really worth once it’s sold or borrowed against.
Fifteen of the thirty minutes are live Q&A. Bring the question you’d ask an investor if you could. Carmelo co-founded Act One Media, a film finance company that has structured $69M+ across 22+ projects, including Unarmed.
Educational content only; not legal, tax or investment advice. Examples are hypothetical and simplified. Nothing on this page is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.
Free. No credit card required. Replays for registrants.
You have a script, maybe a director attached, possibly even talent interested. What you do not have is the financial framework to make an investor feel confident. This session fixes that.
You have run the Kickstarter. You have maxed the credit cards. You have asked family and friends until the well ran dry. There is a better way, and it does not require begging.
You took the meetings. They said they were interested. Then silence. The problem is not finding investors — the problem is that your pitch does not give them a reason to say yes.