The wonderful and delightfully film investment savvy Exec Producer Peter Dunphy from Gizmo Film joins us to discuss film finance, how important your investors are not just at the beginning and How the feature film Funny Cow starring Maxine Peake, which is out now came to be.
How being an Exec Producer can have it's perks but also it's downfalls like having to sack actors but gives us the best way to do it.
We discuss his latest TV show Mad to be Normal starring David Tennant and Elizabeth Moss which is coming out soon
How he worked for business man James Caan and became an expert on tax which proved to be invaluable.
“Every film you are involved in you make big mistake and say I’m not going to doing that again. “
Mistakes are not seeing the route to market. You should be thinking about distribution and sales
“If you can’t get sales agent or distributor at the early stages. Get a new project”
We discuss the best way to move forward with a project when you just have a script.
We go into detail on SEIS, EIS and film tax relief
*note SEIS - 50% tax rebate for investors. Limit is 150k. Plus loss relief on top of that. So 75% is risk free.
EIS. Investors can raise up to 10mil per investor
And by getting advanced assurance. Allows you to give comfort to your investor.
Now the government want you to make a slate of films. Rather than one.
Film tax relief. If making a film in the UK you qualify up to 25% of film tax relief.
“Spend the money as if it was your own”
Surviving Christmas. Good cast, EIS advance assurance and UK tax credit in place. “The moment you get the the film wrapped you now have an asset, which the investors have a stake in.
We also discuss how to keep investors at bay or entertained.
LINKS
Trailer 'Funny Cow' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qDFb7qUV30
Film INFO www.funnycowfilm.co.uk
www.gizmofilms.com
Twitter @Gizmo Films @PeterDunphy1
Follow us
www.thefilmmakerspodcast.com
@filmmakerspod @gilesalderson @cjamedirect
How to Make & Produce TV dramas with Liza Marshall - Temple, Riviera, Taboo
How to make 16 Features in 10 Years with director and screenwriter Jamie Patterson - Justine, Tucked and Fractured
How to Make your Debut Feature Film - Jennifer Sheridan on directing Rose: A Love Story
The Making of David Fincher’s MANK' with Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, Make Up Designer Gigi Williams, Production Designer Don Burt and Costume Designer Trish Summerville
Christopher Smith – Creep, Severance, Triangle and The Banishing - Making Independent Genre Movies
How to make a successful feature with no crew on an i-phone - Matthew Butler-Hart & Tori Butler-Hart talk making sci-fi Infinitum: Subject Unkown
Jessica Hynes on making her debut feature film as Writer & Director and starring in 'The Fight'
How to turn your short film into an award winning feature with Jill Gevargizian, Writer & Director of 'The Stylist'.
How to Make and Release a micro budget Indie Film - Joshua Smith on making his Western, Road Trip Comedy film 'BuckShot'
Matthew Modine - on Stranger Things, Wrong Turn, Acting, Directing and working with legendary filmmakers.
How to make a Sky Original Feature with 'To Olivia' Director & Writer John Hay and Producer Donall McCusker
Going from a Micro Budget to a £1M Feature - Producer Emma Biggins and Director & Writer Oliver Milburn talk making SCHOOLS OUT FOREVER
How to Write, Direct & Produce three award winning feature films with 'Tony', Hyena' and 'Muscle' Director 'Gerard Johnson'
How to make indie movies with Hollywood actors - SYNCHRONIC Directors, Producers, Writer and cinematographer Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson
HOSTS - How to Make a Micro Budget Debut Horror, Sci fi Hit with Adam Leader, Rich Oakes & Neal Ward
The Writer's Journey with Christopher Vogler on screenwriting, filmmaking and the Heroes Journey
How to Write, Direct & Produce your own micro budget, debut feature film with Silent Night’s Will Thorne
Making Films, End of 2020 and a Film Quiz with the Filmmakers Podcast hosts.
Upending the Rom-Com Genre with Filmmakers Kimberley and Amy Datnow on their feature Daddy Issues
How to Make an Action-Packed Caper Thriller with Director James Kermack and his feature Knuckledust
Join Podbean Ads Marketplace and connect with engaged listeners.
Advertise Today
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Sackhoff Show
Prestige Junkie
Team Deakins
Toon’d In! with Jim Cummings
You Can’t Make This Up