Summary
Learn how to create and fund your own streaming series from a TV series creator who has been involved with over 500 hours of content!
The surge of television platforms, networks, and streamers in recent years has opened up the world of television content production, spelling good news for aspiring content creators around the world. We’re not just talking Netflix and Amazon; countless other channels and streamers like Tubi, Shudder, Roku, Snap, and many more are actively building their slates and looking for new content to buy outright. With these opportunities, it’s more than possible to create, sell and be profitable on your own independent TV series.
Over twenty-five years and working across three continents, Jeanette Milio has been involved in the production of over 500 hours of content for film and television, with a total production value of over $250 million, including Academy Award® winning talent in front of and behind the camera. Recently, Jeanette has focused on the development, financing, and production of television series. She co-created, co-financed and executive produced the beauty competition series GLOBAL BEAUTY MASTERS on TLC and its spin-off series THE LOOK ALL-STARS on The CW. She further managed the renowned dog series TV series and brand DOG WHISPERER WITH CESAR MILLAN, which aired for 9 seasons on the National Geographic Channel and sold in over 180 countries.
Jeanette’s decades working and finding success in the TV industry has given her a unique and unrivaled perspective of how to finance television content and get it sold. In this exclusive Stage 32 webinar, thoroughly lay out Jeanette will rules to follow and the traps to avoid for you to fund, produce, and sell your own independent TV content to a streaming service!
If you are looking to create film and television projects for streaming services, this webinar is a must!
Praise For Jeanette's Teaching
"Jeanette has invaluable knowledge and made me feel like seeing my project get made and distributed was possible." -- Phillip F.
“This was an excellent overview of all that is involved, and a great encouragement to reach out to people who do this kind of thing for a living, instead of trying to do it by myself for the first time.” -- Sarah D.
“Jeanette was so detailed about the how to's and why you need to take and research every step. I love getting the details that really feel behind the curtain.” -- Melissa B.
“I liked it. Specifically, the content. Jeanette was very informative and clearly knows her stuff.” -- Crystal B.
What You'll Learn
- A Look at the Independent TV Space Today
- What’s being produced?
- What is selling?
- Who is looking?
- Where can you go outside of Netflix?
- Identify Funding Sources Available Today
- Senior loans
- Junior loans
- Distribution financing
- Equity
- The Rules of Financing
- Terms and conditions you need to understand from the get-go
- Establish global viability
- Optimal balance of financial sources
- Combining Financial Elements Effectively
- Effective Pitch Documents for Investors
- Pitch decks
- Projections
- Other elements that can establish profit
- How to stand out from the crowd
- Securing “Free Money”
- Co-productions
- Subsidies
- Tax incentives
- Mitigating Risk
- Protecting the Investor
- Protecting the Producer
- Protecting the Project
- Transparent accounting
- “Hollywood Creative Accounting”
- What is collection account management?
- How to protect the revenue flow and profits
- Creating Your Own IP
- How to do it
- How to attract your audience to value your IP
- Distribution Deals That Are Available Today
- Pick up deal
- Split rights deal
- License deal
- Buy on
- How to Determine Which Deal Is Right For Your Project
- The Biggest Potential Pitfalls for Producers and Investors that You Need to Avoid
- Terms to avoid at all costs
- Provisions you need to insist on
- Q&A with Jeanette
Who Should Attend
All levels of directors (advanced, intermediate and beginner) looking to learn how to create film and television projects for streaming services.
All levels of writers (advanced, intermediate and beginner) looking to learn how to create film and television projects for streaming services.
Producers looking to learn how to create film and television projects for streaming services.
Actors looking to learn how to create film and television projects for streaming services.
Executive
Jeanette Milio has over twenty-five years working across three continents as a producer, executive producer, and financier of motion pictures and television programming. She has worked on over 500 hours of film and television content in the US, Europe, Dubai and South Africa, with a combined total production value of over $250 million. She produced the Netflix Original THE EXPERIMENT starring Adrian Brody and Forrest Whittaker and has worked with ABC/Disney, USA, Showtime, TLC, CW, Discovery, Lionsgate, Paramount and more. She has also consulted for the international co-production department of Warner Bros. in the U.S. and Germany, which was focused on producing local feature content in Europe.
Born and raised in Germany, Jeanette B. Milio started her career in the entertainment industry as an assistant with the German network station RTL, where she was involved in the production of German formats of internationally renowned shows such as THE PRICE IS RIGHT, FAMILY FEUD, and JEOPARDY, among others. Five years later she produced 5 seasons of the prime-time drama series WILDBACH for the German network ARD, and the feature KREIS DER ANGST for the PRO SIEBEN network.
Jeanette immigrated to the United States and produced theatrical motion pictures and television content for U.S. studios and network stations. Credits include TIMESHARE starring Nastassja Kinski, Timothy Dalton, and Kevin Zegers (distributor: FOX Family/ABC Disney), 13 starring Jason Statham, Academy Award® winning actor Mickey Rourke, Sam Riley, Ray Winston, Michael Shannon, and Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent (distributor: Paramount Vantage); THE EXPERIMENT directed by Paul Scheuring, starring Academy Award® winning actors Adrien Brody and Forrest Whitaker, as well as Cam Gigandet (distributor: Sony Pictures, Netflix); and DARK TIDE, starring Academy Award® winner Halle Berry, directed by John Stockwell (distributor: Lionsgate), etc. Throughout her career, Jeanette was involved in financing over 45 film and television projects for HBO, Showtime, ABC, USA Network, Disney, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., and others.
Jeanette managed a media fund for Far East National Bank, which funded 40 film and television projects, which lead to her structuring her own media fund in 2009, that financed theatrical features with a production volume of $60 million.
She co-created, co-financed and executive produced the beauty competition series GLOBAL BEAUTY MASTERS (TLC) and its spin-off series THE LOOK ALL-STARS (CW Network). She further managed the renowned dog series TV series and brand DOG WHISPERER WITH CESAR MILLAN, which aired for 9 seasons on the National Geographic Channel and sold in over 180 countries. In 2020 Jeanette co-created, financed, and produced two seasons for the new series DOG MASTERS, starring Laura Nativo and Alex Rossi, which is being represented by The Gersh Agency for the U.S. and international distribution.
Jeanette B. Milio is a member of the Producer’s Council for The Producers Guild of America, an executive member of Women in Film, and a member of the Cannes Film Festival Producer’s Network. Jeanette was a co-founder of the Film Finance Forum in Zurich with Winston Baker, teaches Entertainment Finance at UCLAx, and is the author of the industry guide for film and television finance: ENTERTAINMENT FINANCE TODAY, a comprehensive guide in film and television finance.
Jeanette B. Milio holds a bachelor’s degree in Business (Fachhoschule Cologne, Germany), and studied screenplay writing (USC, Los Angeles).
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