SET-UP AND LAUNCH

• Boards and Budgets: the foundational building blocks of all production
   

• Script Sizing and De-Bugging: Picture Element can generate a menu of targeted recommendations to fit an ambitious script into a limited budget - while still respecting the creative vision of the filmmakers
   

• Tax Credit and Rebate Management: from initial estimation and application though final receipt of funds
   

• Financial Management: cashflows, setting up escrow accounts, banking, etc.
   

• Chain of Title Assessment/Completion for banks, bond, guilds, distributors
   

• Negotiating Guild and Union signatory agreements
   

• Securing Completion Bonds and other approvals
   

• Insurance: Managing production, general liability, E&O and specialty coverage (especially challenging in the Covid era)
   

• Choosing Shooting Locations: Picture Element’s principals have filmed (and handled rebates and tax credits) in most major production zones in the US and Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia and other production centers around  the world
   

• Casting Support: from principal cast to day players
   

• Business Affairs/Legal: production contracts, deal memos, location and vendor agreements
   

• Legal Clearance and promotional/product placement