Film Finance

What is Film Finance?

Film Finance is an alternative funding solution specifically suited for the film industry in the process of producing series for companies such as Netflix, Viacom, Amazon Prime, DSTV, MNET, SABC and others …

Film production businesses have multiple financing needs such as: project mobilisation, materials & labour, specialised equipment and general working capital support. Spartan’s financing solves these needs with our structured financing approach covering: Bridging Finance, Working Capital Finance and Specialised Asset Finance. Our funding facilities are usually structured as – Revolving Finance Facilities to continually fund film/series production.

Film and series production companies face a set of challenges that increases their complexity – and ultimately affects their cash flow. Some of these challenges are: not enough working capital to kick-start a project, capital cost of new or updated specialised equipment or simply payment delays as you only receive payment up to 90 days after invoice.

Because no two film/series businesses are the same we take the time to look at the entrepreneur and we make financing decisions based on the particular business context and the nature of the project. We provide finance for the production of series for South African based film production businesses.

Our Structured Finance options …

Working Capital Finance

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Bridging Finance

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Specialised Asset Finance

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Why get Film Finance from Spartan?

  • Spartan’s Film Finance is an alternative funding solution specifically suited for the film and series production industry

  • we’re open to discuss joint venture options

  • we have over 40 years of experience financing South African SMEs across many industries and needs

  • financing amounts from R1 million to R25 million [with revolving credit for even greater requirements]

Who would use our film/series finance:

  • any film production company creating series under contract for local or international distribution

  • production companies requiring Working Capital Finance, Bridging Finance or Specialised Asset Finance

  • seeking an alternative funder to traditional financiers

How does Film Finance work?

Timelines

Applications-to-Payout in approx. 10 days

These are the steps/stages that drive our overall timeline:

  • Application Stage: depends on how quickly you provide required info
  • Assessment Stage: a Credit Analyst engages & assesses – typically 1-3 days
  • Interview Stage: our Credit Committee interviews you
  • Implementation Stage: signing contracts & fulfilling approval conditions. Ranges from 1 day to few weeks [depends on complexity and your responsiveness]
  • Pay-Out Stage: within 24hrs of completion of Implementation Stage

Your responsiveness & cooperation – significantly affects timelines.

Assessment

Credit Analyst engages & asseses > the Credit Committee interviews you

Once we have your application and all supporting docs a Credit Analyst reviews this and will either ask for additional docs (when required) or will arrange for a Credit Interview where you meet directly with our Credit Committee. It’s here that rubber really meets the road.

We don’t ask for business plans as we believe that by making the effort and time to understand you and your business we are in a better position to make a credit decision. In this interview we really get to understand how your business works, its strengths, challenges and if our finance can help it grow.

Pay-Out

After Term Sheet; Agreements; Conditions met

Based on a signed & completed term sheet and our compliance team having checked that all the paperwork is good-to-go… we then proceed to pay-out the same day or next day.

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