Creative Enterprise and Industry Development
Helping filmmakers build sustainable creative careers and businesses.
Ongoing
Overview
To help filmmakers build sustainable creative careers and businesses by improving their understanding of production finance, budgeting, marketing, distribution, contracts, entrepreneurship, and collaboration.
Context and need
Talent needs business skills to become a sustainable career. Filmmakers often learn budgeting, pitching, contracts and distribution on the job. Practical enterprise support helps creatives turn their craft into viable work and businesses.
Objectives
- Improve understanding of production finance and budgeting
- Develop pitching and proposal-writing skills
- Build knowledge of marketing, distribution and contracts
- Foster collaboration and market access across the creative economy
Intended beneficiaries
- Independent filmmakers and small production companies
- Producers and managers seeking to formalise their practice
- Emerging creatives starting their first ventures
Key activities
- Film business training
- Proposal and pitch development
- Business networking
- Market access
- Production budgeting
- Marketing and distribution guidance
- Partnership development
- Creative economy advocacy
Expected outputs and outcomes
- Film business training and pitch-development sessions
- Business networking opportunities
- Guidance on marketing, distribution and partnership development
Geographic focus
Northern Uganda
How your support helps
Support can help fund business trainers and resource persons, pitching events, mentoring on budgets and contracts, and market-access activities.
Support this programme
Choose how you would like to help. Every request is reviewed by the NUFA team and confirmed by email.