My three latest pitching mistakes
Mistakes are a commodity: You usually cannot afford too many and you want to know where they come from. Analysing your mistakes is the best way to learn from th...
Category: financing
Report in the works about coproducing with Germany
I’m working on a free report about German funding sources, coproduction structures and so forth. If you have any questions you’d like to have answer...
How to finance your (short) film part II
This is the second of two posts about how to finance your shortfilm. Although the following information is specific to Finland you will find similar possibiliti...
How to finance your (short) film part I
I often get asked by film makers if I could tell them how to raise money for their shortfilm. In order to save myself from typing the same answers time and agai...
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...
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...
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...