Why banks don’t lend money for films
Filmmakers often wonder why banks won’t lend them money, so that they could complete their financing plan. Often it may be only a 10% gap that needs closi...
Author: ndorra
What makes an animated film expensive?
Animation productions are quite different from live-action films in the factors that influence a project’s budget. There are many elements that determine ...
On stereoscopic 3D
This week I attended the Cartoon Masters Feature seminar in Munich. A big theme in several presentations was stereoscopic 3D or S3D, with such speakers as veter...
Crowdfunding 101
The 26th Interfilm festival for shortfilms was held in Berlin last week. In addition to some great screenings I also attended the ShortFriday event, which inclu...
Animation is a “born global” business
The headline is borrowed from Petteri Pasanen, producer of the Helsinki-based Anima Vitae studios, who put it forward in his presentation at the Animation Finan...
Why Finnish animation kicks so much butt
I state as my opinion, that the different kinds of animation productions coming out of Finland kick lots of butt. Not only do they compete for and win internati...
Co-operation instead of competition
The Finnish animation producers have been co-operating under the banner of Finnanimation since 2005. It started out as a group of producers who attended the MIF...
The One Tip for being a better producer
Producing anything from theatre to iPad games requires lots of knowledge, connections and hard hard work. However, there is one thing that, in my opinion, you c...
Coproduction as a form of financing animation
In Europe, especially in animation, coproduction is a necessary evil. In most cases you simply cannot finance your animated project with money from just one ter...
The problem with defining target groups
Working as a hired producer on the Sirius Express series for the Elokas Co-operative, I’ve run into a problem common to producers: We’ve shown the p...