A TV crowd tuned into a conversation that was in large part about indie film finance models at Iberseries & Platino Industria, Thursday. “TV finance plans are looking more like independent film finance plans,” Creativity Capital co-founder Patrick Fischer, told a packed room. “And that’s not necessarily a bad thing because there’s opportunity.”
A sell-out crowd at the Madrid confab for a session on the future of financing demonstrated that TV folk need to find different ways of getting their projects financed. That is becoming a necessity given the TV drama biz has cooled. A commissioning broadcaster plus distributor advance, or even backing from a streamer, will no longer guarantee the budget is covered in TV drama.
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