Using Email and Mailing Lists to Effectively Market Your Work
Learn how to quickly build and grow mailing lists, along with the range of tools available to serve both your audience and your business goals. An email list remains one…
Thrive in Hollywood by Building a Paying Audience
Learn how to comfortably and cost-effectively build an audience that actually pays for your work — the only audience that can guarantee your long-term success in Hollywood. This workshop focuses…
Development Hell – What It Is and How To Avoid It
“Development hell” is the term for projects that quietly stall for years, burning time, money, and options along the way. This workshop explains what actually causes projects to get stuck…
Getting Paid on Back End Deals featuring David Zannoni
David Zannoni explains Collection Account Management (CAM), the system investors, banks, and key cast and crew rely on to make sure they actually get paid correctly on back-end deals. Without…
Getting Paid on Back End Deals featuring David Zannoni
David Zannoni explains Collection Account Management (CAM), the system investors, banks, and key cast and crew rely on to make sure they actually get paid correctly on back-end deals. Without…
Financing: How to Get Paid More and Get Paid Up Front
Learn practical, customer-friendly strategies for getting paid faster and getting paid more on every deal you close. Cash flow timing is often as important as the total deal value for…
Financing: How to Get Paid More and Get Paid Up Front
Learn practical, customer-friendly strategies for getting paid faster and getting paid more on every deal you close. Cash flow timing is often as important as the total deal value for…
Creating High Quality Merchandise For Free or Cheap to Support Your Work and Yourself as a Creative Professional
Discover more than 20 free and very inexpensive services that help creative professionals package and sell merchandise tied to their work. Merchandise is an additional revenue stream that doesn’t require…
Film Distribution Deliverables Demystified by Expert Barbara Javitz
Expert Barbara Javitz explains exactly what producers need to do in production and editing to meet a distributor’s deliverable requirements. Missing or botching deliverables after a film is finished can…
Bankable Cast and Crew Analysis featuring Bruce Nash, Film Analytics Expert & Founder of The-Numbers.com
Bruce Nash of The-Numbers.com shows how to use genre- and budget-specific film analytics to hire the name talent and key cast most likely to make your project bankable. Casting decisions…
Working with a Line Producer featuring Christina Jo’Leigh
Learn why a line producer is often the very first hire that should be made on any project intended to turn a profit. A good line producer directly controls how…
What Hollywood Agents and Managers Need to See with Marc Pariser, formerly with CAA / William Morris
Marc Pariser, formerly of CAA and William Morris, explains exactly what agents and managers need to see from a writer before they’ll take them on as a client. Representation is…
Persuading Film Investors with Film Analytics featuring Bruce Nash of The-Numbers.com
Bruce Nash of The-Numbers.com shows how using expert film analytics makes it significantly easier to raise money for your film and secure distribution. Investors respond to data, not just enthusiasm,…
Getting Grants to Make Your Documentary featuring Award Winning Producer Michael Singh
Award-winning producer Michael Singh explains how to find and secure grant funding for documentary projects. Grants are a form of financing that doesn’t require giving up equity or taking on…
Getting Bank Funding for Film and TV Projects with Adrian Ward, Senior Director of Specialty Banking for Banc of California
Adrian Ward, Senior Director of Specialty Banking for Banc of California, explains how to work with banks to fund film and television projects. Bank financing is a different — and…
Green Screen Fundamentals / Virtual Production Green Screen Primer
Learn the basics of shooting on green screen and how it connects directly to the virtual production tools now transforming Hollywood. Green screen work can dramatically cut location and set…
Use Regulation CF to Get Funding from Investors
Learn how Regulation CF allows filmmakers to legally raise money from traditional accredited investors as well as everyday fans reached through social media. This opens up a funding source that…
Use Regulation CF to Get Funding from Investors
Learn how Regulation CF allows filmmakers to legally raise money from traditional accredited investors as well as everyday fans reached through social media. This opens up a funding source that…
Fair Use and the Right of Publicity with Expert Litigator Justin Sterling
Attorney Justin Sterling explains when and how you can legally use copyrighted material, real people’s likenesses, and true stories in your own creative work. Getting this wrong can trigger expensive…
Contract Law Fundamentals featuring Expert Litigator Justin Sterling
Attorney Justin Sterling covers the contract fundamentals every creative professional needs, since nearly every job involves a negotiation and a signed agreement. Not understanding basic contract law leaves writers, producers,…
Copyright & Work-for-Hire Law featuring Leading Entertainment Attorney Paul S. Levine
Entertainment attorney Paul S. Levine explains copyright and work-for-hire law for producers, authors, and screenwriters — the intellectual property that is literally the product they sell. Misunderstanding who owns a…
Attorney Paul Levine addresses Option Agreements, Life Rights Agreements, and Shopping Agreements (Audio Only)
Attorney Paul S. Levine explains the option agreements, life rights agreements, and shopping agreements producers use to legally acquire stories, books, screenplays, and real people’s life stories. A poorly negotiated…