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Why banks don’t lend money for films

In financing on 8 December 2010 tagged banks, filmmaking, financing, MEDIA programme with 1 comment

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 closing, a sum that would seem like peanuts for any bank. But still they get rejected and wonder why. In this situation it helps if you try to [...]

Crowdfunding 101

In financing on 22 November 2010 tagged audiences, crowdfunding, financing, seminar notes with 3 comments

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 included a panel on crowdfunding. This year crowdfunding has become a buzzword in Germany as well, which is underlined by the fact that three new crowdfunding platforms have gone online [...]

Animation is a “born global” business

In animation, financing on 15 November 2010 tagged audiences, filmmaking, financing, producing with no comments

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 Financing Seminar last June. The gist is that compared to live-action films, animation travels between territories much more easily, even naturally. This statement is also supported by statistics: According to an [...]

Coproduction as a form of financing animation

In animation, financing on 23 October 2010 tagged coproducing, filmmaking, financing, markets with 7 comments

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 territory, but you have to enlist the help of one or more coproducers. Of course there are exceptions, where smaller projects or better funded companies (often in France, the largest [...]

The problem with defining target groups

In financing on 18 October 2010 tagged audiences, financing, television with no comments

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 pilot episode to dozens of kids from different age groups, and thus arrived at our target age of 6-9 years. However, we didn’t get selected for this years Cartoon Forum [...]

Animation financing seminar – Twitter transcript

In animation, financing on 1 June 2010 tagged financing, seminar notes with 2 comments

Here’s a quick transcript from the seminar arranged today by Finnanimation. Sorry about any spelling mistakes etc. If you have any questions just post them in the comments! Attending the financing seminar by Finnanimation. Going to tweet using the hashtag #anifinance. Film Fund ceo Krohn gives a welcome. Says that in the finnish animation scene [...]