Film Finance For Beginners provides a first-time film maker with the tools necessary to secure financing for their project. The book provides guidance in a wide variety of areas, including Getting the Public to See Your Movie, Managing Investor Attitudes, Preparing Budgets, Understanding Hollywood Accounting, Isolating Investment Risk, What Makes a Great Business Plan?, Financing Alternatives, Film Distribution, Film Tax Incentives and "The Internet Threat"
Author Biography:
Jeffrey Taylor has an extensive background in the equipment leasing, banking, commercial real estate and motion picture industries. As a result, he has successfully guided moviemakers to raise money for their film projects and is considered an expert in private placement equity and tax-enhanced transactions. On a personal note, he has financed several movies which were filmed in the U.S. with post-production in Europe and distribution in the Far East. He has served as executive producer on Metal Man, Alice Murders, and Pageants Can Be Murder. His professional speaking engagements include the Delray Beach Film Festival, the Santa Fe Screenwriting Conference and the International Institute of Film Finance. Prior to forming Showbiz Management Advisors in 2001, he held senior positions with Citibank, Peat Marwick and the Actors Fund, a non-profit charity, where he served as their CFO. Throughout his business career, he has lectured extensively throughout the world in such diverse countries as Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Kuwait, Malta, Mexico, Nigeria, Portugal, Singapore and the U.K. and has worked with the top 100 financial institutions and Wall Street firms in the U.S. Jeffrey Taylor is no stranger to the self-help book market. He has authored two textbooks for the equipment leasing industry ("Selling Leasing In A Tough Economy" and "The Future of Equipment Leasing"), an autobiography on his life as a recovering alcoholic ("A Gentleman Drunk/Un Caballero Borracho") which won him a screenplay finalist position at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in 2009 and "Going from W2 to 1099", which delivers an entertaining account and perspective on starting up a new business. Over the last five years, he has hosted an internet radio show on wsradio.com, hosted a talk show on KFNX 1100 AM in Phoenix and has been interviewed by dozens of local, regional and national radio shows, including Lorri Allen on Family Net Atlanta, Joey Reynolds on WOR New York, Bulldog and the Dude in Ocean City, Rhett Palmer on WZTA Vero Beach, Ray Read on KCMO Kansas City, Phyllis Hall on KXLO Lewistown, Larry Steele on WPUL Daytona Beach, John Cohn on WSBC Chicago, Frankie Boyer on WXBR Boston, Reverend Hudson on WJSS Baltimore, Harry Douglas on the Horne Radio Network, Jason Spiess on KFGO Fargo, Keith Murphy on the Urban Journal in Detroit and Bonnie Graham in New York on blogtalkradio.com.
