Wyoming Film Incentives are now available, click here for more information.
Wyoming Film/Arts Update:
Wyoming Short Film Contest
The Wyoming Film Office would like to announce its first ever Wyoming Short Film Contest. The premise is simple: make a short film that takes place in Wyoming, features Wyoming, or presents Wyoming as a major character in the storyline, and you’ve got a shot at winning the $25,000 grand prize (applied to the production budget of your next made-in-Wyoming film), along with an exclusive premiere at the 2008 Jackson Hole Film Festival. Entry deadline is May 9th. For more information, or to submit a short film, visit www.filmwyoming.com.
Crow Ridge Productions Inc, out of Rapid City, SD is offering discounted production
equipment for short film contest filmmakers shooting in Wyoming. Learn more about
them at www.crowridgeproductions.com or call 605-574-4671.
Wyoming Cultural Guide
The Film, Arts & Entertainment Program of Wyoming Travel & Tourism is once again producing the Wyoming Cultural Guide. This Guide highlights Wyoming’s cultural amenities including statewide museums, historic sites, theatres, galleries, artist studios and cultural events. Individual listings and advertisements are sold to help fund the Guide. We print 100,000 guides that are distributed in-state at Chambers of Commerce, information centers and other tourism related organizations, and out-of-state at regional information centers. The Guides are also mailed with selected Wyoming tourism material requests. We are inviting you or your organization to support the 2008 edition of the Wyoming Cultural
Guide through the purchase of an ad, business listing, or sponsorship. Your participation will help promote cultural outreach throughout the state of Wyoming and raise awareness about your particular entity’s products, services or attractions. If you have any questions or comments about the Wyoming Cultural Guide, please contact Wendi Robirds at (307) 431-0836 or email wendi@visionwest.com.
Yoot Music & Films, Inc. Film, Screenwriting and Music Competitions
Win up to $5,000 and Make a Film or Soundtrack with Us
60 Second Trailer Competition
Deadline 06/30/08
Any Genre Short Script Competition
Deadline 06/30/08
HIV Prevention Short Script Competition
Deadline 06/30/08
Soundtrack Competition
Deadline 06/30/08
You can also apply to participate in our Feature Film Project at: www.yootfilms.org
Film Industry Financial Incentive (FIFI)
The Film Industry Financial Incentive (FIFI) program provides a cash rebate for production companies of up to 15% on dollars spent in the State of Wyoming. The production company must spend a minimum amount of $500,000 to qualify and then meet additional criteria to determine the rebate percentage between 12%-15%.
Qualified expenditures generally include, but are not limited to:
- Wages, salaries, or other compensation for technical and production crews, directors, producers, performers and extras who are residents of this state.
- Expenditures on goods and services in Wyoming for preproduction, production, post-production, digital media effects services, rental equipment, meals, lodging, sets, and set construction.
Rebate percentage between 12% and 15% based on the following criteria:
- Wyoming storyline (full 15% rebate)
- Behind the scenes footage highlighting Wyoming locations (up to 14% rebate)
- Wyoming props and product placement (up to 13% rebate)
- Filmed in Wyoming credit (minimum 12% rebate)
- Other promotional opportunities that provide Wyoming tourism value could be negotiated to determine rebate percentage.
Call for Locations
The Wyoming Film Office is calling for photos of potential filming locations throughout the state. We're updating our film office web site at www.filmwyoming.com with hundreds of new images and we need your help. We're looking for any interesting locations that could be used by a production company for feature films, television specials and commercials. We need to have contact information for each location. For example, if the location is privately owned we need the owners contact information including address, directions, phone number, etc. If the location is on public land, we need to know which agency to contact for permitting, i.e. BLM, Forest Service, State Lands, etc.
Please send ALL location images, prints or digital, to Colin Stricklin at info@filmwyoming.com or mail them to:
Colin Sticklin
Wyoming Film Office
I520 Etchepare Circle
Cheyenne, WY 82007
(307) 777-3400
Film Business Plans
Sharp Angle is an entertainment business consulting firm founded by a former studio executive that creates film strategies for indie filmmakers/producers. They create comprehensive film business plans that are often essential for indie filmmakers who plan to raise funds from private investors. Since filmmakers often only get to pitch their projects to investors once, it is important to deliver a polished business plan the first time. They are solely a consulting firm and they do not provide any film financing.
Sharp Angle consulting services includes:
- Film business plans
- Cashflow and financial projections
- Comparable film analysis
- Distribution and marketing strategies
- Global market potential evaluation of scripts
For details contact: SHARP ANGLE
www.filmbiz101.com/filmbusinessplan.html
advisors@sharpangle.com or steven.lutzer@sharpangle.com |
