Good art, sound business, and solid law. A bankable film needs all three. Watch the video, then score your current project below. Art and business take years to master, but the law is binary: you either have the right contract, or you don't, and you can fix it today.
2Score your project
Rate your current project on each of the nine areas like a traffic light. Green = 100% locked in (10 points). Yellow = somewhat there (5). Red = a complete mess (2).
Good Art The art pillar
1. The Why. Is there a bulletproof reason this story must be told right now, and that you are the only person who can tell it?
2. The Script. Is it undeniable? Are you emotionally invested as a reader, do you keep turning pages, and does the ending land?
3. The People. Do you have the right attachments, cast, characters, and crew to elevate the material?
Sound Business The business pillar
4. Strategy. Do you have a clear packaging and financing strategy, and know how you'll get where you're going?
5. Process. Do you have a predictable production pipeline that keeps you on schedule and on budget?
6. Marketing. Do you know exactly who the audience is, and how to drive their eyeballs from the start through the final cut?
Solid Law The law pillar — your armor
7. Documents. Do you have the core architecture in place: chain of title, crew deal memos with work-for-hire language, and an operating agreement for your LLC?
8. Memorialization. Are those documents bulletproof, with the exact clauses studios and distributors require, or are they barren and empty?
9. Execution. Are they properly signed, safely stored, and easy to pull up the moment an investor or distributor asks?
3Your score
0 / 90
Rated: 0 of 9
4Turn the law pillar green
Any red or yellow in solid law is a massive red flag liability. Inside the NonDē Filmmaking Legal Lab you get the exact chain of title documents, the operating agreements, and line-by-line video walkthroughs. Don't let a bad contract kill a great movie.
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