Insights
Short pieces on the parts of film financing that are decided before an application is written.
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Grant Strategy
A complete guide to film grants — how the funding landscape is structured, how to shortlist the grants your project can actually win, and how to sequence applications so each one is submitted at its strongest.
12 min read
Producers
Most funds are not assessing whether a film should exist. They are assessing whether this team can deliver it. A producer attachment is the fastest way to answer that question.
6 min read
A strong application to the wrong fund scores zero. Eligibility work is not admin — it is the first strategic decision of the campaign.
5 min read
Film Funding
Projects stall for structural reasons far more often than creative ones. The pattern is usually visible in the materials.
7 min read
Project Strategy
An application answers one funder's questions. A strategy decides which funders are asked, in what order, and with what already in place.
Producers are assessing whether a project fits their slate, their budget band and their next eighteen months. Most approaches never address any of the three.
Visibility
Visibility is not publicity. At development stage it is about being legible to the small number of people who can move the project forward.