The Film Finance Handbook and FundYourFilm.com began at the end of 1999 as an online guide to film funding on Netribution.co.uk.
That site was largely driven by the question of how to fund a film, and how the Internet can help independent filmmakers in the new digital world. From the start, Netribution.co.uk contained a free film funding section, partly based on Chris Chandler's excellent Lowdown guide for the BFI. It gradually got expanded - Stephen Salter updated it considerably - and Focal Press offered a book deal. In the end, after Netribution ran out of money and shut down in 2002, it was self published with Shooting People, who funded and promoted the first edition - Get Your Film Funded - covering the UK ('the banana book'). In 2005 the book returned in partnership with Adam P Davies under Netribution and was updated a third time in 2007 as a global edition covering over 50 countries, in partnership with him, alongside writer James MacGregor, and dozens of lawyers and writers around the world, with info on 50 regions.
As well as the data and theory element, the last edition also looked into emerging models - e.g the filmmakers Susan Buice and Arin Crumley, whose film Four Eyed Monsters became the first feature film shown on YouTube a month after publication. The book pointed to the promise of streaming, open source and creative commons, micro-distribution and crowdfunding, which had only been used for a few short films and one feature at that point.
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Book 1: Get Your Film Funded, UK Film Finance Guide10 May 2003 | Written by Caroline Hancock and Nic Wistreich. Published by Shooting People Press. A roadmap to film funding structures and opportunities in the UK, based on Netribution's free online funding resources, the publication was a co-production with Shooting People and sold 4000 copies in its first 18 months. ISBN: 0-9544874-0-0 |
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Book 2: UK Film Finance Guide: How to Fund Your FIlm01 May 2005 | Written by Adam P Davies, James MacGregor and Nicol Wistreich. Published by Netrbution. The reader - from beginner making their first short film, through to experienced producer packaging an international multi-million pound co-production - is guided through the entire process of raising finance, in a book packed with interviews, case studies, expert tips and details of more than 200 funds. ISBN: 0-9550143-0-1 |
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Book 2: UK Film Finance Guide: How to Fund Your FIlmWritten by Adam P Davies, James MacGregor and Nicol Wistreich, with 40 experts from six continents. Published by Netrbution. Still available digitally, in DRM-free ePub, Kindle and PDF versions, it includes:
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