The Film Business Plan Template

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Why do I need a film business plan?

What's Inside my Film Business Plan download:

A fully-detailed, investor-friendly, easily-customizable independent film business plan you can use to raise money from investors with, or garner interest from producers, agents, managers, actors, or independent film studios.

Almost 80 pages in all, and 30 pages in just the business plan part alone - Well-written and SUPER EASY for you AND your investors to understand.

Executive Summary / Overview of the movie business plan.

Fully-customizable section names, headers, and content. Every page can be modified to suit your film.

Easy-to-follow instructions on how to customize the template to your own film and/or company

An updateable & fully-customizeable Table of Contents

Our Objectives Section - where you can detail your company's objectives, both long-term and short-term, as well as the objectives you have for the film

About The Film Section - where you can give an overview of your film and its financial goals

Our Team Section - where you can detail your film's creative team / director / producers / etc.

Attached Name Talent Section - where you can include details about any name talent you've attached

The Film's Target Market Section - where you can describe what kind of audience your film is after

The Film Industry Today section & How Films Are Made Section - where we give a general primer to investors or other readers of your business plan who may be new to the film industry and how films are made and how make their money

Distribution Section - How The Film Will Make Money Section - where the nuts and bolts of distribution are detailed, as well as the specifics of how your film will make money.

Film Festivals / Markets Section - describing how films pursue distribution and/or press recognition via the film festival circuit, and which festivals your film plans to hit.

Press / Distributor Screenings Section - detailing how you plan to boost the "buzz" of your film using press screenings and distributor-only screenings.

Theatrical Distribution Section - Your plan for theatrical distribution, as well as how theatrical distribution works in general, for the potential investor who may be unfamiliar with the process.

DVD / Blu-Ray / Internet Section & VOD / Cable / Broadcast Section - Two sections describing your film's plan to make money on these non-theatrical media.

Investment Opportunity Section - Where you describe the specific amount of money you're trying to raise for your film and the specifics of what the potential business partner or investor can expect to see in returns.

The Financing Plan Section & Investment Recoupment Section - The nuts and bolts of how the revenue will flow, both FROM the investor TO the film company, and FROM the film company back TO the investor.

Scenarios and Projections Section - A section that provides good, fair, poor, and worst-case scenarios based on your projections of similar films or recent films on the same scale as yours.

The Business Plan Short Form - A version of the business plan that's squashed down to a few pages, good for handing out to potential partners or investors who don't have time to read the whole plan.

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PLUS, my Film Business Plan Template comes with another extremely valuable document my little company and our lawyer put together over many many months, and at great expense to us, but which I'm giving to you FREE:

Private Placement Memorandum Template for Film LLC's (INCLUDED FREE!)

This document is an extremely valuable (and often necessary) tool for serious filmmakers who have formed, or who are planning on forming, an LLC (aka Limited Liability Corporation) in order to raise funds for their film.

A Private Placement Memorandum is a document that independent filmmakers often pay $500 or more for an attorney to draw up, and it's REQUIRED BY LAW to give to investors who you're trying to raise money from, and may only be given out to a pre-determined number of your potential investors in order to stay in compliance with State, Federal, and Local investment laws.

The Private Placement Memorandum Template goes into extreme detail on how much you're trying to raise for your film, how many units (similar to "shares") of your LLC you're selling to investors, how investors can purchase units of interest in your film's LLC, how the money will be divided and in what order, and more. It's absolutely invaluable if you've got an LLC for your film and you want to raise money by selling units of interest in your LLC.

Modify our Private Placement Memorandum Template to fit your company, but consult closely with your attorney so you can stay 100% legit when asking people to invest in your film LLC.

With my Private Placement Memorandum Template to get you started, you could save yourself and your attorney many hours of work drawing one up from scratch, and it comes FREE with my Film Business Plan Template above.

Not to mention you get TONS OF OTHER NECESSARY, FULLY-CUSTOMIZEABLE PRODUCTION DOCUMENTS included FREE in the same package when you buy my Film Business Plan Template. Including:

LETTER OF INTEREST TEMPLATE (INCLUDED FREE!)

This document is a typical letter of interest from a potential name actor or other name talent.  Once you've gotten a name talent interested in your film, you may need them to send you a letter of interest in order to help further your film's funding/packaging pursuits.

DEAL MEMO TEMPLATE (INCLUDED FREE!)

This is a very brief, to-the-point deal memo outlining the pay, participation, and specific shooting days of an actor.  Sent from your company to the actor or manager at their request.

INVESTOR FINANCING AGREEMENT TEMPLATE (INCLUDED FREE!)

This document is the contract between your film company and the investor who invests in your film.  You must pay close attention to the details of this document in particular, as your deal can be drastically different than the text in the template.  Use only with great supervision from your attorney.

DISTRIBUTION OF REVENUES AGREEMENT TEMPLATE (INCLUDED FREE!)

This document specifies how a particular participant in the film, such as a director, producer, or actor, will participate in the revenues from the film's financial exploitation.  Use only with great supervision from your attorney.

CREW DEAL MEMO TEMPLATE (INCLUDED FREE!)

The crew deal memo template is the contract between your company and your crew.  Specify your working conditions, terms of their employment, any pay, deferred or otherwise.

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORSHIP TEMPLATE (INCLUDED FREE!)

This document is completed by a screenwriter and provided to your film company to legally assure that the screenwriter is the originator of the screenplay.  This just makes sure that the screenwriter has the legal title and authority to sell/provide his script to the film company.

OPTION/PURCHASE AGREEMENT TEMPLATE (INCLUDED FREE!)

This document is a typical script option agreement between the film company and the writer.

SHORT FORM COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT TEMPLATE (INCLUDED FREE!)

This document transfers all the copyright protection from the screenwriter to the production company, with regards to the script being transferred from screenwriter to production company.

RELEASE FORM TEMPLATE (INCLUDED FREE!)

This form is a quick and easy release form you can have your cast, crew, and any background players sign to make sure that you can legally use their image and voice in the final film. 

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS INCLUDED IN MY FILM BUSINESS PLAN TEMPLATE FOR JUST $59.97

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Sample Pages from the Film Business Plan Template, (including two samples from the FREE Private Placement Memorandum which is included). The samples below are in PDF form. The Film Business Plan Template you download will be in Word format, so it will be editable.

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All-in-all it's over 80 pages of a hugely valuable film business plan, investment documents, and production documents which are completely customizable and totally easy to use. All included in the same quick download. And it's a single Word document, so you already know how to use it! All for just $59.97.

You're a filmmaker. You're a creative force. You're not some pencil-pushing office grunt who has two weeks of spare time to spend on writing a movie business plan from scratch.

So STOP spending all your valuable time endlessly grinding out your film business plan, film investment documents, and production documents and START RAISING MONEY FOR YOUR FILM. AFTER ALL, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING ALL THIS FOR, RIGHT?

I repeat: This film business plan template has ACTUALLY RAISED $200,000+ FOR TWO OF MY INDEPENDENT FEATURE FILMS. I ain't kiddin'!

But my company also used this indie film business plan to raise over $100,000 worth of free sound editing, sound mixing, color correction, and deferred crew pay for both films.

This exact indie film business plan landed me FILM INVESTORS who gave me CASH FOR MY BUDGET and GOT MY MOVIES MADE. Read more about it here.


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When you purchase my Film Business Plan Template for just $59.97, you also receive PERMANENT UPDATES. Whenever I update or make improvements to the templates, I'll email you and you can download the new, improved ones ABSOLUTELY FREE. FOR LIFE.



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