With an ever-growing number of countries trying to attract producers in search of cost effective solutions, impressive locations and national funding, the independent producer has reached a new stage where he has to consider the ever-changing funding resources available for his project on an international scale.
The final question to every producer in regards to financing is:
We advise on the optimal financial structure for your project by providing a clear view of the rules in place and the means to draw them together in order to optimize the financial structure of your movie. Our precise knowledge of moviemaking regulations, tax breaks, subsidies and soft moneys in more than sixty countries worldwide allows us to offer new financing opportunities to the producers and arrange them to provide tailor-made financing scenarios through alternative combinations of resources. Using our unique proprietary database of over 1000 existing national subsidies, local tax breaks, labor credits and coproduction agreements, we are able to evaluate the impact of the different possible financing scenarios on the shooting locations, type of cast, nationality of crew to hire…
Our financial expertise and precise knowledge of tax breaks, subsidies and soft moneys has gathered praise from international partners and has established Forecast Pictures as an attractive coproducing partner for independent productions companies from abroad.
Forecast Pictures can therefore be used as the French partner of any coproduction, giving it access to French talents, crew and financing, for instance:
The final question to every producer in regards to financing is:
“what is the best and most realistic financial structure to get my movie made?"
Answering this issue is the purpose of Forecast Consulting Service.
We advise on the optimal financial structure for your project by providing a clear view of the rules in place and the means to draw them together in order to optimize the financial structure of your movie. Our precise knowledge of moviemaking regulations, tax breaks, subsidies and soft moneys in more than sixty countries worldwide allows us to offer new financing opportunities to the producers and arrange them to provide tailor-made financing scenarios through alternative combinations of resources. Using our unique proprietary database of over 1000 existing national subsidies, local tax breaks, labor credits and coproduction agreements, we are able to evaluate the impact of the different possible financing scenarios on the shooting locations, type of cast, nationality of crew to hire…
Our financial expertise and precise knowledge of tax breaks, subsidies and soft moneys has gathered praise from international partners and has established Forecast Pictures as an attractive coproducing partner for independent productions companies from abroad.
Forecast Pictures can therefore be used as the French partner of any coproduction, giving it access to French talents, crew and financing, for instance:
- Just as others territories such as UK, France has a tax rebate mechanism of roughly 20% of qualifying production expenses.
- The value of your movie can dramatically increase thanks to French elements that ease the process of selling to a French TV or distributor (StudioCanal, Wild Bunch...). Call it 'French Connection'.
We believe that our role as a consultant is more than giving a producer a 100 pages codex of the worldwide subsidies available for his movie to choose from. Our analysis focuses on your project specifics. We commonly advise on four aspects of a project and cater to the producer’s need:
Script Evaluation
Because we know how complex and difficult the process to achieve a final draft is, each of our financial analysis begins with the fundamentals: reading the script.
Only when our readers have carefully analyzed the story, brainstormed about potential locations, evaluated the shooting time and understood the cast involved do we start to work on the financing. And of course you get the reviews!
Potential Financing Alternatives
We scrutinize all alternatives to the initial financing plans given by the producer.
We build our solutions in accordance with our observations on the script, budget, locations and funding already available, to elaborate what we believe to be the most suitable, effective and realistic financing plans for your project.
Analysis of Geographic Possibilities
Armed with the script analysis, we are able to come up with a range of new and often surprising locations by cross-referencing our own ideas for the sets or moods of the script.
Our client’s reports encompass a broad selection of alternative locations relevant to the project and provide each with its current regulation and funding outlooks.
You will understand what constraints and advantages are linked to the combination of places to shoot, post-produce and the nationality of talents and crew.
Definitive Action
You will not only know what financing is or could be available - you will also understand how to combine the overall deal structures required to access these financing sources.
We will supply you with the contacts that we feel the most helpful and appropriate based on the financing plans we’d have devised.
Script Evaluation
Because we know how complex and difficult the process to achieve a final draft is, each of our financial analysis begins with the fundamentals: reading the script.
Only when our readers have carefully analyzed the story, brainstormed about potential locations, evaluated the shooting time and understood the cast involved do we start to work on the financing. And of course you get the reviews!
Potential Financing Alternatives
We scrutinize all alternatives to the initial financing plans given by the producer.
We build our solutions in accordance with our observations on the script, budget, locations and funding already available, to elaborate what we believe to be the most suitable, effective and realistic financing plans for your project.
Analysis of Geographic Possibilities
Armed with the script analysis, we are able to come up with a range of new and often surprising locations by cross-referencing our own ideas for the sets or moods of the script.
Our client’s reports encompass a broad selection of alternative locations relevant to the project and provide each with its current regulation and funding outlooks.
You will understand what constraints and advantages are linked to the combination of places to shoot, post-produce and the nationality of talents and crew.
Definitive Action
You will not only know what financing is or could be available - you will also understand how to combine the overall deal structures required to access these financing sources.
We will supply you with the contacts that we feel the most helpful and appropriate based on the financing plans we’d have devised.