Jeff Steele
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Grandfather Your Section 181 Benefit Today
You do not need to have investors to be grandfathered; you just need to memorialize a few things before year’s end
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Consumer Laundering – Piracy’s Silver Lining Unfolds
Operators of online piracy sites should take note — you could be sitting on the next media gold rush
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Union-Busting 101 for First-Time Filmmakers
Hollyblog: Film financier Jeff Steele’s tips for negotiating with SAG, WGA, DGA, IATSE and the Teamsters. Teaser: Get to know Eastern Europe!
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The Upside of Digital Piracy: Or How I Learned to Quit Worrying and Love the Free Feedback
If producers can look past their lost hypothetical revenue, then they can use sites like Pirate Bay to harness thousands of people commenting on their film
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The Importance of Always Hedging Your Currency
In this volatile world market, currency losses create sinkholes in your budget that are large enough to kill the project. That’s why you need to stabilize your currency from the get-go
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I Lost My Investor!
Transparency is the only insurance policy against wasted time and money
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Why 20% Deposits on Foreign Pre-Sales Are Going Bye-Bye
All these delayed or problematic indie film projects spread across the world have received their 20% deposits while the buyers wait forever for their notice of delivery. This can’t last
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So How Much Should You Allocate to the Producer of Marketing & Distribution?
Most producers are too mired in the daily demands of physical production, post-production and delivery to have the time and clarity to contemplate all the facets of a film’s marketing campaign
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Seeking Film Finance? You Get What You Pay For
Before looking for funding, producers should spend $10,000-$25,000 to nail down their budget, schedule, finance plan, incorporation, script option, casting director, investment package, etc.
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The Illinois Tax Incentive: Why Studios Aren’t Moved by It
Even if the state is able to rescue its film credit, it’s not going to make a difference to studios, premium independents or primetime networks
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Crowd-Funding: How to Make it Work for Filmmakers
Highlights from the Film Finance Forum: Part Deux
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Highlights From Winston-Baker’s 3rd Annual Film Finance Forum
With a standing-room audience of mainstream financiers, producers, executives, attorneys and more, this annual event has become the preeminent financial gathering of its kind
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Hollyblog: Oscars and Financing – Why ‘A-list’ Isn’t ‘Always-List’
Does winning an Oscar make you an A-list star? Whoopi Goldberg might beg to differ, but it also depends on how you define A-list.
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Power to the People: the Democratization of Film
Financing and distribution are the barriers to a complete democratization of the film industry — and even those walls are coming down
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