Description: The must have guide to traditional, emerging and creative TV funding models that are being developed and exploited by social media-savvy documentary filmmakers. Each chapter covers a different form of funding and offers practical tips, case studies and also reveals what grantors, brands and NGOs are looking for in a pitch.
Brief description: Nicola Lees has developed documentaries, docudramas, multiplatform and reality programmes for network and cable channels, including the BBC and Discovery, Travel Channel, National Geographic and TLC in the USA. Nicola consults for international clients and is editor of www.tvmole.com dedicated to factual development. She is author of Greenlit: Developing Factual/Reality TV Ideas from Concept to Pitch.
Review Quotes: "The orderly method is perfect for this type of step-by-step guidebook, as it unambiguously breaks down each potential source of funding [...] But the real pearls of wisdom this book offers are the little tidbits provided by the many producers, directors and documentary-making insiders who are interviewed in the final third of the tome." --Video Age International Magazine, January 2014