Archive for the ‘Finance’ Category
February 2, 2016
NEWS Jewocity.com (press release) (blog) Sundance 2016: 17 most anticipated indie films premiering at the festival Jewocity.com (press release) (blog) Sundance Film Festival 2016 gets underway today and it is set to be put some great independent films from all around the world in the spotlight. Huffington Post The Fellowship Of The Film Huffington Post Waller: We were this indie film, so you […]
Posted in Business Models, Call For Entries, Casting, Content, Documentary Films, Entertainment, Film & Filmmaking, Film Festivals, Film Production Incentives, Film School, Finance, Licensing, Script Writing, Short Films, State Incentives, Tax Credit, Theaters, Uncategorized, Video |
Tags: Distribution, Film, Film Production, Filmmaking
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May 24, 2013
Chicago’s leading Entertainment Law firm, Leavens, Strand, Glover & Adler, is pleased to announce its inaugural Entertainment Law Seminar: What In-House Lawyers Must Know About Exploiting Creative Content
Posted in Arts, Business Models, Channels, Content, Copyright, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Distribution, DMCA, Documentary Films, Entertainment, Events, Fair Use, Film & Filmmaking, Film Festivals, Film Production Incentives, Film School, Finance, International, Licensing, Marketing, Media, Music/Score, Online Marketing, Online Video Marketing, Ownership, Platforms, Production, Script Writing, Short Films, Theaters, Theatrical Release, trade secrets, trademarks, Uncategorized, Video |
Tags: intellectual property, Internet Protocol, LAw, Lawyer, Lawyers and Law Firms, Seminar, Services, Sound recording and reproduction
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May 2, 2013
The Business of Independent Film For the past few years, the business of creating independent film has faced many challenges. Outside financing has suffered from the “Great Recession” as banks stopped lending, Federal Section 181 film tax credits have evaporated, State film Tax credit programs have imploded from scandal and debate rages about the effectiveness […]
Posted in Arts, Budgets, Business Models, Content, Documentary Films, Entertainment, Events, Film & Filmmaking, Film Festivals, Finance, Marketing, Media, Production, State Incentives, Tax Credit, Video |
Tags: Film Festival, Great Recession, Independent film, Movies, San Francisco International Film Festival, Soderbergh, Steven Soderbergh, Ted Hope
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April 9, 2013
Five Legal Questions To Ask BEFORE Crowd-funding You Next Film (or Creative) Project Intro I recently had the opportunity to share the stage at a Chicago VentureShot Community panel presentation on crowdfunding an independent film project. My client successfully raised enough funds to produce his film through the Crowdfunding site KickStarter.com. Due to the unpredictable […]
Posted in Arts, Blogging, Budgets, Business Models, Channels, Content, Copyright, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Distribution, Documentary Films, Entertainment, Fair Use, Film & Filmmaking, Film Festivals, Film Production Incentives, Film School, Finance, Marketing, Media, Music/Score, Online Marketing, Online Video Marketing, Ownership, Platforms, Production, Script Writing, Short Films, State Incentives, Tax Credit, Theaters, trademarks, Video, Work-For-Hire |
Tags: Copyright, Creative, Crowd-funding, Film, Filmmaking, Finance, Kickstarter, LAw, LEgal, Project, Questions, Script, trademark
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March 13, 2013
What does it mean to be a creative professional in Chicago? That is the topic for discussions during the Chicago Tribune’s Trib Nation event Chicago Forward: The Future of the Arts in Chicago being held tonight, March 13, 2013 at 6:00 PM. In the Chase Auditorium at 10 South Dearborn. The event proposes to discuss […]
Posted in Arts, Business Models, Content, Copyright, Distribution, Documentary Films, Fair Use, Film Festivals, Film Production Incentives, Film School, Finance, Licensing, Marketing, Media, Music/Score, Online Marketing, Online Video Marketing, Platforms, Production, Script Writing, Short Films, State Incentives, Theaters, Theatrical Release, trademarks, Uncategorized, Video, Work-For-Hire |
Tags: Arts, Band, Choreography, Concerts, Creative, Culture, Dance, Development, Film, History, Museums, Music, Musicians, Playwrights, Professional, Theater, Venues
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December 15, 2012
IndieFilmLaw’s Curated List of People, News & Events For Independent Film and Filmmaking “Blood on the Bayou” made by Abbeville filmmaker, features Abbeville actors The Kaplan Herald “It’s been one heck of ride!” said Abbeville filmmaker Russell Hebert. It took him a year and a half long to make this Independent Film “Blood on the […]
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Tags: AFI, American Film Institute, Box Office, British Independent Film Award Winners, Filmmaking, Hyde Park, IDA Awards, LA Film Critics Awards, Sugar Man, Video
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November 15, 2012
‘Elfquest’ Fan-Filmmakers Officially Acquire The Comic’s TV/Film Rights ComicsAlliance After years of waiting for a big studio production of ElfQuest, fans and web TV producers Stephanie Thorpe and Paula Rhodes took matters into their own hands by creating their own short film based on the indie comics perennial by Wendy and Richard Pini. Pontchartrain Film […]
Posted in Budgets, Business Models, Call For Entries, Channels, Content, Copyright, Distribution, Documentary Films, Fair Use, Film Festivals, Film Production Incentives, Film School, Finance, International, Marketing, Media, Online Marketing, Ownership, Production, Script Writing, Short Films, Theaters, Theatrical Release, Video |
Tags: Animation, comics, Film, Filmmaking, production, Short Film, television, TV
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September 20, 2012
Lesson Of Toronto: Indie Filmmakers Better Keep Budgets Low As Distribs Grow … Deadline.com Now, the major agents came home happy because they sold almost all the films they crossed the border with. But the actual deals are telling us something about the economy of independent film making. Lady Filmmakers Film Festival Coming to Beverly Hills Sept. 28-30th The Beverly Hills […]
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Tags: Film Festival, filmmaker, Filmmaking, Hollywood, Independent film, Nashville Scene, San Francisco, Sylvain Carle
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August 30, 2012
Bijou hosts pioneer indie filmmaker Nancy Savoca Ct Post Pioneering independent filmmaker Nancy Savoca, who caused a sensation at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival with “True Love,” will do a question-and-answer session at the Bijou Theatre in Bridgeport on Thursday, Aug. 30 after a screening of her latest film. From Girls to No-Budget Filmmaking: Alex […]
Posted in Business Models, Content, Copyright, Distribution, Documentary Films, Film Festivals, Film School, Finance, International, Media, Music/Score, Ownership, Production, Script Writing, Short Films, Theaters, Theatrical Release, trademarks, Video |
Tags: Anthony Brogdon, Birmingham, Boatman, Detroit, Film, filmmaker, FilmThreat, Independent, Mowing Through Misery, Nancy Savoca, narrative, Pioneering, Sidewalk, Sundance Film Festival, True Love
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August 20, 2012
(Image via FreeDigitalPhotos.net) Spotlight on film director Larry Longstreth Hudson Hub-Times “I reached my goal with 3 months to spare,” said Longstreth, who launched his movie, “The Long, Slow Death of a Twenty-Something” in late 2010. The nation-wide release of a movie is “sort of the holy grail of indie filmmaking,” said Longstreth. The Indie […]
Posted in Blogging, Business Models, Content, Copyright, Distribution, Documentary Films, Finance, Marketing, Media, Production, Script Writing, Short Films, Video |
Tags: Black Swan, bloggers, director, economics, Felix Salmon, James Cullen Bressack, Joshua Brown, Larry Longsreth, Nassim Taleb, Reuters, Spotlight, The Reformed, writer
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