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You’ll get the PDF straight away, then the three biggest lessons from it over the following week.
Your route to market by stage
Development, post, or completed film
The Six Elements Every Buyer Tests
Script, producer, director, budget, cast, proof & audience - with a self-score checklist
Build a 90-Day Plan
A 90-day plan that turns the whole thing into actions
The industry doesn’t give feedback
Sales agents don’t explain a pass, distributors don’t reply, and after years of submissions most filmmakers still can’t see what’s actually in the way.
Here’s what those years taught us: buyers run the same tests on every project, at every budget level. Almost none of them are about talent. They’re about paperwork, numbers and positioning, and every one of them is buildable, most of it without spending serious money.
Our guide ‘Make It Sellable’ walks you through all of it:
- The six elements every buyer tests (script, producer, director, budget, cast, proof & audience), with a self-score checklist
- How to build a real budget from a script breakdown, in 7 steps, even if you’ve never priced a film
- The rights traps that deadlock projects between friends, and the one-page fixes
- Comps that work at your budget, and why naming The Witch and Midsommar works against you
- Your route to market by stage: development, post, or completed film
- A 90-day plan that turns the whole thing into actions
Written for first and second features. Every term explained the first time it appears; if you’ve never heard “below-the-line”, this was written for you.
Who’s behind it. Lift-Off Global Network, the team that took Philip Barantini’s Boiling Point from our Season Awards into Cannes. We’ve spent years putting projects in front of the sales agents, distributors and producers we work with at Cannes, EFM and AFM. This guide is what those rooms taught us.