Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Film & Video Financing offers the independent producer a plethora of approaches to the complex and arduous task of financing the low-budget ($10 million or less) feature. Contents include information on current attitudes and approaches to finding investment through limited partnerships, equity investments, banking issues, split-rights deals, debt equity deals, blocked funds, foreign pre-sales, and much more. plus insider's tips from independent producers and money raisers for such films as sex, lies, and videotape, Dirty Dancing, and Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 1)
• Film Production Overview (p. 7)
• Attitude and Approach (p. 17)
• Attitude (p. 17)
• Experience (p. 19)
• Strong Package (p. 19)
• Resources and Network (p. 20)
• Integrity (p. 23)
• Personal Power (p. 23)
• Resources (p. 27)
• Development Ability--"Packaging" (p. 30)
• Script Development (p. 32)
• Script Development Deals (p. 33)
• Packaging (p. 35)
• Support Team (p. 35)
• Sales Person (p. 35)
• Lawyer (p. 35)
• Accountant (p. 36)
• Production Company (p. 36)
• Rights Package--Letters of Intent (p. 36)
• Financial Package (p. 37)
• Budget (p. 38)
• Money-Saving Tips (p. 39)
• Deferred Payment (p. 41)
• Income Projections (p. 41)
• Completion Bonds (p. 43)
• Lab Deals (p. 44)
• Advertising Deals (p. 44)
• Distribution (p. 44)
• The Role of Banks (p. 46)
• Banker (p. 47)
• Bank Loans (p. 48)
• The Banks (p. 50)
• Banking Strategy (p. 51)
• Summary (p. 52)
• Risk Capital (p. 55)
• What is it? (p. 57)
• Greg Johnson Interview (p. 57)
• Limited Partnerships (p. 59)
• Letters of Credit (p. 61)
• Equity Investments (p. 62)
• Equity Capital (p. 66)
• How International "Pre-Buy Equities" Work (p. 67)
• Co-Productions (p. 69)
• Below-the-Line Deals (p. 71)
• Television Joint Ventures (p. 71)
• Print and Ad Financing (p. 71)
• Laboratories as Partners (p. 72)
• Tax-Driven Deals (p. 73)
• Summary (p. 74)
• Getting Investors (p. 75)
• Critical Mass (p. 79)
• Right and Left Brain Pitches (p. 80)
• About Investing (p. 81)
• End Users as Financiers (p. 85)
• Private Investors (p. 85)
• What Investors Want (p. 86)
• Pre-Sales (p. 91)
• Introduction to Pre-Sales (p. 91)
• Street Gossip (p. 93)
• The Value of Genre (p. 96)
• Foreign Pre-Sales: Richard Lorber Interview (p. 97)
• Upside/Downside (p. 109)
• Strategies for Foreign Sales (p. 110)
• Negative Pickups (p. 111)
• Value of Domestic Distribution (p. 112)
• Distributors and Distribution (p. 113)
• Foreign Financing (p. 116)
• The Financing Issue: Chicken or the Egg? (p. 117)
• A Pre-Sale Strategy (p. 117)
• Blocked Currency (p. 119)
• Introduction (p. 120)
• Debt Equity: Steve Cunningham Interview (p. 122)
• Tom Rautenberg Interview (p. 133)
• "sex, lies and videotape": Financing Case Study (p. 139)
• Financing High Quality Independent Films (p. 155)
• The Art and Business of Low-Budget Films (p. 175)
• Success in Home Video (p. 199)
• The Home Video Deal (p. 203)
• Splits Rights (p. 206)
• The Deal (p. 209)
• Basic Contract Terms (p. 210)
• Video Sponsorship (p. 221)
• Sponsor Deals (p. 225)
• How to Figure Impressions (p. 227)
• Premiums (p. 229)
• Who Are Prospective Sponsors? (p. 230)
• Manufacturer's Point of View (p. 231)
• What is Sponsorable? (p. 233)
• The Exchange (p. 235)
• National Organizations (p. 238)
• "The Astronomers": Sponsorship and Marketing (p. 238)
• A Manufacturer as Financier (p. 241)
• Agents for Sponsorship (p. 243)
• So Many Questions, So Little Time (p. 245)
• Questions for Financial Success (p. 247)
• Appendix (p. 263)
• Film Distribution Companies (p. 265)
• Video Distribution Companies (p. 268)
• Foreign Sales Companies (p. 278)
• Grant Sources (p. 283)
• Bibliography (p. 292)
• Books and Audio Order Forms (p. 301)