{"id":14,"date":"2005-09-15T17:24:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T00:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cirne.com\/vlog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2022-12-13T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T23:23:19","slug":"bay-area-film-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/2005\/09\/15\/bay-area-film-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Film Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met Thomas Trenker when he did his film financing presentation at the San Francisco Indie Club<\/a> July 16th meeting. Thomas showed compeling data in Excel graphs of film budgets to profit ratios garnered from films made from the present to the eary 1980. What I found eye opening was the conclusion from the graphs that the highest return is from low budget PG films. If I recall correctly, PG film budgeted at 10 million or less. Thomas Trenker and his associates hed up the Institute for Internationl Film Financing<\/a>. Three days later Thomas and his group did a presentation to a standing room audience at the Film Arts Foundation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Last Friday, Sept 9th, the San Jose Mercury reported on Thomas film angel work in the article Valley backers playing angel to indie films<\/a>. Article excerpt:<\/p>\n

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Art and commerce will converge tonight at the Silicon Valley Capital Club in San Jose for the first FilmAngels Meeting and Dinner. Five projects at various stages of development, including a Stephen King horror film being developed by Steve Wozniak, will be pitched to a roomful of accredited investors. Entry fee: a “suggested donation” of $150.<\/p>\n

Besides the Wozniak project (“Gotham Caf\u00c3\u00a9”), filmmakers from San Jose and points north will pitch: “Skin City,” a documentary on the new Las Vegas; “Two Moon,” a drama about a teenager battling a hometown casino; “Quality of Life,” a completed drama about graffiti artists; and “Becoming Buddha,” a fantasy-biopic by Marin’s Ron Fricke (“Koyaanisqatsi”).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas Trenker work on Independent Film Financing<\/a> reported in San Jose Mercury article, “Valley backers playing angel to indie films”<\/a>. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--2-2-2-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}