Emma Madison, head of commercial and industry services at Screenrights, offers an overview of financing structures and how they operate – and hopes to get you thinking about how the initial financing puzzle impacts long tail return.
Too often creatives are focused on one of two issues: raising the money or creating the content. But if we are to have a sustainable industry, there should always be an eye on the third and most crucial issue in production: recouping the money from the various territories and formats that creative content is licensed to, writes Murray Fahey.
Screen Australia will soon cease to revert its recoupment entitlement for all production investment made prior to Jan 2009.