Jeff Steele is one of the most respected minds in the independent film production and finance space.  His relationships within the industry make him a valuable asset to any producer.
- Chris Tuffin, Producer

If you would like to make an appointment to receive any of the below services, Contact Film Closings. Scheduling is subject to current clients.

• PRIVATE CONSULTATIONS

Jeff Steele provides private consultations regarding all matters key to financing your film: the equity piece, crowd funding, co-producing, tax incentives, slate financing, bilateral treaty co-production, debt lending (pre-sales, mezzanine, gap, and tax credit), foreign sales agents, completion/finishing funding, alternative financing structures, institutional investors, high net-worth individuals and VOD.

Sessions are fifty minutes and take place in Santa Monica, or by phone, depending upon circumstances and prior arrangements.

• FINANCE PLANS

The Film Closings finance plan has been honed over many years into a thoroughly robust platform that is capable of distilling granular inputs from numerous spreadsheets into a clean, concise output sheet that is both professional and digestible. The output is delivered as both an excel and .pdf.

• FILM CLOSINGS

Indie films are extremely combustible — most never find financing, and those that do find financing usually collapse before they ever get into production.  Those collapses mostly happen during the closing process of the film’s production financing.  Closing a production loan is an all-consuming, 3 month process that can that can rack-up hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills.  The investors, the bank, the gap funders and the tax credit lenders each have their own attorneys, as do the producers, talent and bond company: all of whom are expecting the production to pay for it.  If the producer is not fully prepared, then every little delay will costs tens of thousands of dollars.

Film Closings specializes in relieving this burden.  Foreign sales companies, management companies and experienced production companies appreciate the value of offloading this responsibility.  Attorneys, lenders and bond companies are involved in closings every day,  but most producers and investors do it only once every two or three years if they’re lucky, and each time the structure and the players are different.  This is why producers inevitably get caught in a financing shortfall that they can’t get out of , having to scramble at the eleventh hour to find $250,000 or more because of a currency swing, credit discounting, or some other X-factor that could have been avoided with proper planning and the experience that Film Closings provides.  Which would you rather pay for: piece-of-mind or a bridge loan?

• EQUITY SOURCING

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