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Filmmaking — Pre-Production

An Introduction to Financing - Article: The words "financing" and "budgeting" strike terror deep in the heart of many would-be directors. This is the part of video and filmmaking they would gladly hand off to somebody else to deal with. But even though financing and budgeting sound like uncreative areas filled with cold facts and hard figures, this is far from the truth. Good financial planning is essential to the success of every digital video project and the quality of your planning can make or break your project.

BoilerPlate Film TV Budgeting Software - Powerful and affordable production budgeting software for independent filmmakers and television producers! With BoilerPlate's simple, intuitively designed templates, running on the power of Microsoft Excel, you can start generating complete, fully detailed, industry standard production budgets and reports quickly and easily.

CineMatrix - CineMatrixÙ 3.0 is the first single or multi-user Command & Control system, integrating the Pre-Production phase, Production phase and Post Production phase of motion picture production. System integration means the system does the Budget revision work that you manually do now - automatically.

Easy Budget - Movie budgeting software for filmmakers - Movie Budgeting Software for Professional Filmmakers For Motion Pictures and Commercials - the easy way...

Film Arts FoundationðGrants - Created in 1984, the goal of the Film Arts Foundation Grants Program is to encourage new and diverse works by film and video artists who have little likelihood of being supported through traditional funding sources. These awards are targeted for film and videomakers in categories that are among the most difficult areas in which to raise money for media projects.

FilmDeveloper.com - Film financing and investing, script writing and pre-production for independent producers and investors...

Independent Television Service (ITVS) - Independent Television Service ITVS provides funding, production and promotion of independent filmmaking for public television documentaries, narratives, interstitial and children's programming. ITVS funds, distributes and promotes new programs produced by independent producers primarily for public television and beyond. ITVS is looking for proposals that increase diversity on public television and present a range of subjects, viewpoints and forms that complement and challenge existing public television offerings

Jungle Software | Gorilla Film Production Software - Jungle Software presents Gorilla -- film production software for the independent filmmaker...

Mark Litwak's Entertainment Law Resources - Entertainment Law Resources for Film, TV and Multimedia Producers by author and entertainment attorney Mark Litwak provides in-depth information to assist those who finance, produce and distribute motion pictures....

Production Insurance & Special Event Insurance - Providing Complete Insurance Services for the Music Film Video Productions and Entertainment Industry....