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		<title>UK Film Finance Mag Interview</title>
		<link>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/interview-uk-film-finance-mag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steelejeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was interviewed for a story on film finance. I'm wondering do you find these questions interesting? If not what would you have asked instead? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmclosings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11606062&amp;post=565&amp;subd=filmclosings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Indie Films Make Money on YouTube?</title>
		<link>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/indie-films-youtube/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steelejeff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finance Plans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content delivery system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demand Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film distributor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Finance Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indie Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie producing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kick-ass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LINC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massify]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Kydd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some indie films have claimed success in raising funds online by posting spec trailers, but the most successful example I've found only  raised $60k over four years.  Four years is too long to wait.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmclosings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11606062&amp;post=569&amp;subd=filmclosings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short Post on Hard Costs</title>
		<link>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/short-post-on-hard-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steelejeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment Attorneys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gap Lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pre-Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Credits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bond company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film hard costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film legal fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indie Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie producing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The current budgeting software that I know of won't tell you that a producer left out 275k in legal fees, the hard costs, which in turn causes your budget to lose credibility with financiers and the bond company.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmclosings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11606062&amp;post=474&amp;subd=filmclosings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Crowd Film Funding: Losers and Winners</title>
		<link>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/crowd-filmfunding-losers-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/crowd-filmfunding-losers-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steelejeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biracy.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowd film funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film finishing funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indie Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie producing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intrastate film investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rockethub.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tribe film funding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The current online crowd-funding models will soon be extinct. Here are my predictions about the probable losers and winners in crowd/tribe financing.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmclosings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11606062&amp;post=500&amp;subd=filmclosings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regulation-D and Film Financing</title>
		<link>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/regulation-d-and-film-financing/</link>
		<comments>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/regulation-d-and-film-financing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steelejeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alternative film finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative film finance models]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crowd funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-accredited investors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre selling DVD's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tribe film funding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you're considering alternative financing models such as crowd funding, tribe funding, "donations", and preselling DVDs, etc., then you MUST consider Regulation-D of the Securities Act.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmclosings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11606062&amp;post=476&amp;subd=filmclosings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: A New Method for Indie Financing</title>
		<link>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/new-method-indie-financing/</link>
		<comments>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/new-method-indie-financing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steelejeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance Plans]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gap Lending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pre-Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Credits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowd film funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging film finance models]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Finance Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indie Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie producing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micro film funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spec trailer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tribe film funding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://filmclosings.com/?p=447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If nothing else, film financiers like myself need to try to incorporate new sources for film funding. This merging of crowd/tribe financing into the traditional model may indeed be possible.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmclosings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11606062&amp;post=447&amp;subd=filmclosings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film Finance Events: Worth the Money or Waste of Time?</title>
		<link>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/film-finance-events-worth-the-money-or-waste-of-time/</link>
		<comments>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/film-finance-events-worth-the-money-or-waste-of-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steelejeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indie Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie producing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Incentives Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winston Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IIFF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Finance Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYCFF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EAVE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Independent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Those in attendance all have the same high hopes of learning that silver bullet of information they are dying to know, or meeting the people they need to meet to finally make their financing dreams come true. Should you attend or should you not attend?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmclosings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11606062&amp;post=407&amp;subd=filmclosings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reviewing the IIFF Film Financing Townhall</title>
		<link>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/reviewing-the-iiff-film-financing-townhall/</link>
		<comments>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/reviewing-the-iiff-film-financing-townhall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steelejeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Sutman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Stearns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clint Kisker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IIFF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IM Global]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indie Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie producing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Cohen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nadine De Barros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relativity Media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tyler Pukatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voltage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Steele's review of the IIFF Film Financing Townhall Meeting in Los Angeles on March 31st 2010<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmclosings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11606062&amp;post=410&amp;subd=filmclosings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portugal: The Straw That Breaks The Back of Independent Film Financing?</title>
		<link>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/portugal-the-straw-that-breaks-the-back-of-independent-film-financing/</link>
		<comments>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/portugal-the-straw-that-breaks-the-back-of-independent-film-financing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steelejeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pre-Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Credits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Lemisch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bring Hollywood Home Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film tax credits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign pre-sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indie Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie producing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Kyser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal's credit rating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharon Jimenez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me assure you - it's got everything to do with the state of filmmaking worldwide and no one is talking about it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmclosings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11606062&amp;post=370&amp;subd=filmclosings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Star Power Is Anything But.</title>
		<link>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/star-power-is-anything-but/</link>
		<comments>http://filmclosings.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/star-power-is-anything-but/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steelejeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cast Attachments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commercial film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film studios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign pre-sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign sale estimates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Clooney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indie Films]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[weekend box office]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can’t speak for studios, but in the indie marketplace, this fundamental shift of star power declining could be good news for producers. A solid script and a proven producer might be a bigger value to buyers than a star’s name.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=filmclosings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11606062&amp;post=353&amp;subd=filmclosings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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