EDUCATION
Explore seminars and webinars offering practical education on financing, producing, and distributing film and streaming content in today’s evolving global marketplace.
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How To Finance A Film Between $5-$10MM
Some of the most profitable and most award winning films in recent years have been movies made for a budget between $5MM-$10MM.
So how do you position your film and make the best use of your $5MM-$10MM budget for profitability and success?
Without a deep understanding of financing, you risk making costly missteps. A lack of preparation can lead to challenges such as securing inadequate funding, mismanaging budgets, or failing to protect the interests of your investors. These pitfalls can derail your project and cost you opportunities. This webinar aims to equip you with the knowledge and tools to navigate these challenges effectively, ensuring your films are financially viable and successful in today’s competitive market.
A Step-By-Step to Fancing For Television
The surge of television platforms, networks, and streamers in recent years has opened up the world of television content production, spelling good news for aspiring content creators around the world. We’re not just talking Netflix and Amazon; countless other channels and streamers like Tubi, Shudder, Roku, Snap, and many more are actively building their slates and looking for new content to buy outright. With these opportunities, it’s more than possible to create, sell, and be profitable on your own independent TV series. Jeanette’s decades of working and finding success in the TV industry have given her a unique and unrivaled perspective on how to finance television content and get it sold. In this webinar, you'll learn rules to follow and the traps to avoid for you to fund, produce, and sell your own independent TV content to a streaming service!
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How To Write A Series To Budget
More television than ever is being made and consumed. With streamers like Netflix looking for new, exciting, original stories from all over the world to produce, you have to put yourself in the best position to make sure your story stands out. But, the truth is that an intriguing story in today's marketplace is not enough. You have to look at the practicalities of making your story into a television series, and with that, you have to think about how what you write will affect the budget. Getting a clear understanding of how to think about budget when you are writing will help give you the competitive advantage you need to get you closer to your greenlight.
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Jeanette Milio hosts The Film Finance Summit
One of the biggest pieces needed to put together your film always comes down to the financing. Understanding how studios have found ways to shift the risk, and how film funds have changed is important if you want to know how to finance your next project. How can you get your next film financed?
No need to speculate any longer! FREE Film Finance Forum. Jeanette Milio is hosting panels with leading industry experts, including Producers of films like MANCHESTER BY THE SEA, GOOD WILL HUNTING, CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, THE CATCHER WAS A SPY, LOVING VINCENT, and CHICK FIGHT.
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From First $ to Profit Distribution
This UCLA Extension course is an ongoing offering available online and in a hybrid/in-person format (partially online) as an 11-week course.
The course covers the financial aspects of every stage of the motion picture value chain—from development and financing through production, distribution, revenue collection, and profit participation—while examining the financial implications of key decisions made throughout the filmmaking process.
Advanced Film Finance
This UCLA Extension course is an ongoing 11-week course, available online and in a hybrid/in-person format (partially online).
Participants learn to apply advanced film financing structures and strategies designed to optimize profitability and mitigate investment risk. The course explores elevated financing waterfalls, ROI optimization strategies, slate financing structures, and priority recoupment models to help participants understand how sophisticated financial structures can enhance investor returns and protect capital.
By the end of the course, participants are prepared to strategically structure and secure financing for their projects, develop compelling investor-ready slate business plan decks, and confidently present their projects at film markets and to prospective financing and distribution partners.
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How To Finance & Produce a Film Between $15-$30MM
As streamers like Max, Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon continue to put a tremendous focus on acquiring quality, star-driven independent films, the opportunities for financing and producing your film between $15-$30MM have never been better, so long as you know exactly where to look and what the path is.
You'll need to know how to pick the right script, break down every aspect of your budget through distribution, understand distribution options, and how to structure your finance sources to optimize your returns. The best way to get all the information you need is to get support from someone who's done it before.
In this on-demand webinar, Jeanette Milio shows you the financing and producing side of putting together a film for $15 to $30 million.
How To Finance A $1MM-$3MM Film
Investors and producers avoid films in the $1 to $3 million range as these lower budgets are riskier, but the returns have the greatest rewards if you produce them correctly. In this on-demand webinar, you'll learn the optimal way to finance your $1 to $3 million film and make a profit by choosing the best project for the market, attaching great talent to build a package, and assembling a great business plan that attracts investors. You'll understand the financing, production, and distribution options available to low-budget films, how to secure and structure the various finance sources, and how to optimize distribution agreements.
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The Best Way To Make A Profit In Today's Marketplace
The business side of films is often especially difficult for filmmakers and creative producers, but it's actually more possible than you think. No matter how big or small your film is, there are multiple ways you can find funding and multiple ways you can ultimately create profitability. And while it might not be second nature for creatives, once you get a handle on how to make this process work for you, you will also be able to create a business model that you can apply to your future projects, and eventually a portfolio of profitable assets (or films) that will serve as an effective and undeniable calling card as you continue to grow in the industry.
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Customized Film Finance Seminars & Webinars
Every film, investor, producer, and industry professional has different priorities. These customized sessions are designed around your specific goals, questions, projects, and level of experience—whether you prefer a private one-on-one consultation or an interactive session for a small group, investment team, or producing team.
Sessions can focus on one specific subject or combine multiple areas of film financing, producing, and distribution, including film finance structures, equity investment, investor ROI and recoupment, risk mitigation, project valuation, budgeting, tax incentives and subsidies, pre-sales and distribution, sales estimates, revenue waterfalls, collection accounts, profit participation, investor protections, packaging, greenlight strategy, and optimizing a project’s commercial and financial structure.
For producers, sessions can be tailored around an actual project, identifying financing opportunities, potential weaknesses, investor concerns, and the steps needed to become more finance- and distribution-ready.
For investors, seminars can focus on how film investments are structured and evaluated, how capital is protected and recouped, how revenues flow, where risks arise, and what questions to ask before committing capital.
Each session is customized around the areas that matter most to you, allowing us to spend the time where it provides the greatest value.
One-on-One • Small Groups • Producing Teams • Investor Groups • Companies