Creating a Business Plan for Your Film

Schedule

Tue Nov 11 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Raindance Film Training Centre | London, EN

Learn how to prepare yourself and get the paperwork together you will need to fund your film.
About this Event
At a glance

Learn how to prepare yourself to get the paperwork together you will need to fund your film.

Live examples and real-life situations explained and demonstrated

Presented by the longest serving festival founder in Europe

This class is part of the .

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About Creating a Film Business Plan

Once you’ve got found that terrific script and settled on a director to bring it to life, you need to prepare a film business plan for how you will get the money you need to make the film.

Every potential investor will want to know how you are going to spend the money, and most importantly what the return on investment will be.

This class will explore the essentials you will need to present your project to both industry and private investors.

This class is part of the


What will it cover?
  • Choosing and approaching investors
  • Structuring a business plan
  • Utilising visual aids
  • Preparing sales estimates and income streams
  • Cash flow
  • Profit participation

*The intellectual property rights of this course remain the owner of the tutor


What will you achieve?

By the end of the class, students will have a good understanding of how to put together a film business plan, and how to find and approach potential investors.


How will you be taught?

This class is taught lecture-style with opportunities for students to ask the tutor questions.


Who should attend?

Creating a Film Business Plan is suitable for beginner film producers, as well as those interested in finding out more about the pre-production side of filmmaking.


About the tutor

Elliot Grove is the founder of Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards. He has produced over hundreds of short films and also five feature films, including the multi-award-winning in 2006. Elliot has written three books which have become industry standards: , now in its second edition, , and 130 Projects to Get You Into Filmmaking. In 2009 he was awarded a PhD for services to film education.


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This course is FREE for our and students

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Where is it happening?

Raindance Film Training Centre, 10a Craven Street, London, United Kingdom
Tickets

GBP 57.60

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