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Film Financing Explained: Development Budgets

Learn how to plan for the expenses leading up to the pre-production phase of your project.
March 27, 2023
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Are you ready to bring your next film idea to life? Before cameras start rolling, you’ll need to create a development budget to account for all the expenses that lead up to the pre-production phase of your project.

Join us for episode #7 of our film financing series, hosted by EP’s John Hadity, EVP Incentives, and his special guests, entertainment attorney, Maria C. Miles, and Billy Mulligan, VP Development & Production at Hantz Motion Pictures. Together, they will discuss the ins and outs of development budgets, including what kinds of expenses you can expect to incur as you shop your project for financing, how to recoup out-of-pocket expenses, ways to mitigate financial exposure during the early stages of your production, and more! (Runtime: 1 hr)

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