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IDA Producer's E&O: What is My Distributor / Financier Asking For?
2 October, 2023 • Alyson LocacciatoDocumentary E&O Insurance | IDA Insurance | IDA Members Insurance Why is errors and omissions (E&O) insurance needed for a documentary? You sold your documentary! You met your distributor requirement of obtaining a three year E&O policy through the IDA (International Documentary Association) program. Congra...
The Best Wedding Venues in Charleston, South Carolina
21 September, 2023 • Grant PattenImages: Shutterstock Charleston, South Carolina has no shortage of impressive venues that are appropriate for hosting weddings. We’ll list some of them in this article. We’ll discuss, in no particular order: Best church/synagogue/mosque wedding venues Best outdoor wedding venues Best restaurant wedding venues Best othe...
Producers: Buy an E&O policy before going into production or wait?
12 September, 2023 • Dave SternFilm Producers: Buy an E&O policy before going into production or wait until the project has been sold? Dave Stern: I think as an entertainment lawyer, we would always rather a producer’s errors & omissions (E&O) policy be obtained as early as possible, certainly before production would be ideal. In a lot o...
Call Sheets Help Reduce Film Insurance Costs
7 September, 2023 • David HamiltonDaily Call Sheets in Film Production Daily call sheets are a useful way to alert cast and crew to potential hazards for that day’s shooting schedule, and to inform them about which safety precautions they might need to take. Film insurance underwriters appreciate the risk management component of a call sheet and take t...
How does SOCAN play a role in helping a film producer ensure that they have their bases covered?
1 September, 2023 • Byron PascoeByron Pascoe: SOCAN is an organization of nearly 200,000 members in Canada, fully composed of music writers and publishers but mostly composed of writers. And when writers write a song, whether they’re a beatmaker or producer or lyricist or rapper, etc., they register themselves as a SOCAN writer member, and they shoul...
Filmmakers: Capture Footage of the Location Before the Shoot!
31 August, 2023 • Mike GronerColby Spencer: For someone who is an indie filmmaker or doing a small project, what are some things that you wish you could tell them that they can learn from this episode? Mike Groner: I would say probably the most important thing – and I try to hit this home with every filmmaker – when you’re going to film at a locat...
Cyber Insurance for Canadian Small Businesses | Cyber Insurance Canada
17 August, 2023 • Mike GronerImage: Shutterstock What is cyber insurance? (Canada) Cyber liability insurance goes by many names these days: cyber insurance; cybersecurity insurance, cyber risk, hack insurance and others. However, the intent of all of these polices remains the same: a cyber policy is an insurance product used to protect your busine...
Injuries to Actors Could be Covered Under Cast Production Insurance
10 August, 2023 • Mike GronerActor Injury Insurance for Film Productions (US and Canada) Colby Spencer: I don’t know if everybody knows: there’s production insurance, show insurance but there’s also cast insurance claims and they can be some of the biggest claims that a project can incur. One of the examples that I saw on the Front Row blog was wh...
Filmmakers, are YOU prepared with cyber insurance if you get hacked?
27 July, 2023 • Grant PattenSource: Royalty-free stock photo ID: 635676176, Shutterstock Don’t think a cyber hack could happen to your production company? Well, think again! Just look at the below real-life examples of film production company hacks to see how real this threat is: The Sony Pictures hack (2014) In 2014, a hacker group (likely spons...
4 Ways to Prevent Cyber Attacks in the Creative Industry (Canada)
27 July, 2023 • Grant PattenCyber attacks in creative industries Content creation companies such those involved in advertising & media, film production, graphic design or animation that operate without cyber security insurance are exposed to cyber attacks. Any company that produces creative content usually holds sensitive information for thei...
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