Investment criteria
- Formats
- Feature film and premium documentary. No shorts, no spec commercials.
- Territories
- United Kingdom and international co-production.
- Stage
- Part-financed projects with a director attached and verifiable attachments; completed pictures seeking world sales.
- Required
- Script, budget top sheet, finance plan, chain of title and any executed pre-sales.
- Response
- Two weeks from receipt of a complete submission.
Governance & controls
- Collection account management on every financed title, administered by an independent CAM.
- Quarterly reporting to all financiers against the agreed recoupment schedule.
- Completion bond required on productions above an agreed threshold.
- KYC, AML and source-of-funds verification on all incoming capital.
- Chain of title opinion obtained before first drawdown.
- Errors & omissions and production insurance placed through an accredited broker.
- Independent audit of production cost reports at interim and final stages.