EXCLUSIVE: The Austin Film Society has appointed veteran producer Elizabeth Lodge Stepp as Senior Program Director for a new Texas film financing initiative. In this role, Stepp will help build on AFS ...

Managing Director Christa Thomas at SunTrust in Century City. There’s a new set of banks making the rounds in Hollywood these days. And they’re landing roles in film finance deals. OneWest Bank, a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kristen Konvitz is coming to WME as a WME Independent film finance and packaging agent, based in the Beverly Hills office. Konvitz specializes in structuring and arranging financing, ...

Building on the panel discussion at the 2025 Luxury Law Summit in London, Loeb Luxury Brands Chair Melanie Howard posed some additional questions to Nessa McGill, commercial director at Align Pictures ...

Look, most of us in film are in it for the creative side. Unfortunately, filmmaking involves a lot of business and marketing, too, which (yuck) means numbers and finance. That's why it's good to get ...

The film industry conference brings together leading lights of the indie film industry with the Zurich old money represented by the city's numerous private banks. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau ...

The 21 st Zurich Film Festival kicks off on Thursday with a muscular, star-filled lineup that boasts some of year’s most acclaimed films and, on the industry side, an all-new Film Finance Forum that ...

The Writers Guild Theatre became ground zero for the next wave of independent film financing as the Film Finance & Future Capital Entertainment Summit drew a highly curated mix of private equity ...

In another example of the strengthening ties between talent agencies and production financing, Screen Capital Intl. and the William Morris Agency announced on Saturday the creation of a $100 million ...

Lewis Horwitz, the American film executive and producer dubbed Hollywood’s “King of Indie Film Finance,” died on Dec. 19. He was 90. Horwitz began his career as a bank teller in Los Angeles in the ...