How to Produce Your First Feature; helping first-time producers carry a film from chain of title to delivery

How to Produce Your First Feature is a self-paced course for people producing their first independent feature. Thirteen steps take you from a finished script through the shoot to delivery: rights, budget, financing, the company, unions, crew, locations, cash flow and deliverables. You end with a producer’s packet, the documents you’d hand an investor, an attorney or a line producer. Each step has a short read, a worked example and questions you answer for your movie. Texas is the worked example for incentives and permits, with the questions to ask in any state. Included: the How to Produce Your First Feature workbook, a file that opens in your web browser, saves as you type and does the budget math, plus a printable worksheet for every step, a budget top sheet, a financing plan, a deal memo checklist, a deliverables checklist and the paper trail. The workbook compiles your answers into one printable packet at the end. Self-paced, at your own speed, with no videos and no live sessions. It’s general information, not legal, tax or investment advice, so see an entertainment attorney and a CPA before you sign anything or raise a dollar. When the script is locked, a breakdown, a budget and a schedule are the work Goldsmith Production Services does.