We specialize in document delivery, enabling a smooth and timely handover of all required paper deliverables and getting you paid as soon as possible, including

• Reviewing & negotiating delivery schedules for distributors & sales agents.

• Coordinating & tracking delivery of all required documents.

• Assistance in curing any delivery defects in documentation.

• Managing guild credit approvals & waivers, completing guild residuals worksheets (from information provided by production), & delivering other necessary guild documentation.

• Preparing credit, obligations, & approvals memos, billing blocks, lab access letters, negative cost affidavits, & more.

We maintain a birds-eye view over the business of production, liaising between a production company’s financiers, producers, attorneys & accountants. We evaluate financing, sales & distribution options, review production forms & business terms of key agreements, advise on guild requirements and downstream effects, review cost reports, address third-party clearance issues, and provide general production troubleshooting & support.   

Our general business affairs services include:

• Production company set-up, operating agreements, copyright registrations & recordations, & other chain of title documentation.

• Advise on insurance requirements, including Errors & Omissions insurance, and ensure policies are in compliance with industry standard insurance requirements.

• Negotiate business terms of above and below the line production agreements.

• Manage third party clearance review process

• General production troubleshooting & support.

We work with producers of unscripted projects to handle the specific needs of nonfiction filmmaking, including general business affairs, archival licensing and document delivery.

Distributors have very specific requirements for music in film. We ensure your music documentation will be acceptable to distributors by:

• Reviewing longform music license agreements to ensure they will be acceptable for delivery to distributors.

• Providing clearance services for third-party music on select projects.

We recognize that film financiers are the lifeblood of independent film. We provide strategic guidance in the investment decision-making process, ensuring alignment with investor’s goals. We monitor projects through their production & distribution life cycle, acting as the eyes & ears of the investor to help guarantee that the project is completed on-time, on-budget, and in-accordance with all industry-standards & legal requirements. Our investor services include:              

• Negotiating business terms of investment agreements.

• Oversight of production business affairs to ensure all agreements entered into by production are consistent with industry standards & distributor delivery requirements.

• Managing on-going communications with financier’s attorney’s, co-financiers & producers, both pre-closing & during production.

• Reviewing cost reports during production & post-production.

• Overseeing the delivery process to ensure timely payment by distributors.

• Reviewing CAM and distributor statements for accuracy and completeness.

We specialize in managing & maximizing revenues for all stakeholders of completed film projects, including secondary & ancillary rights management, statement & revenue tracking, & active collection of unpaid revenues.

• Monitor statements & payments from distributors, sales agents, collection agents, & collection societies.

• Facilitate payment of required guild residuals.

• Prepare any required reporting to third party participants.

• Active collections of all revenues due from distributors & sales agents.

• Maximize revenues through exploitation of ancillary & secondary rights (music publishing, clips, merchandising, cable retransmission, & blank tape levies).

• Advise on second cycle sales options & negotiate second cycle sales & distribution agreements.