ABSTRACT
In today's economic climate, most producers ferret out a combination of several of the above forms of financing, in order to meet the total budgetary requirements for a film project. Bank financing is something that is vastly misunderstood by most filmmakers. There is a pervasive perception that banks are magical institutions that will either loan money without collateral or loan a piecemeal amount of money toward the making of a film. A limited partnership (LP) is a form of partnership similar to a general partnership, except that, in addition to one or more general partners (GPs), there are one or more LPs. Film grants are blocks of money offered, often by government agencies or private organizations, for the purpose of funding production of film, television, or new media projects that meet certain criteria and which can easily be researched on the Internet.
