Washington Filmworks is always interested in the business of film, and it’s nearly impossible to make a film without going through the world of finance. These days, selling the rights to a film and funding its budget go hand in hand thanks to gap financing.

Media-Inc, through Movie Maker Magazine, recently published a piece about how instrumental gap financing plays a key role in film funding. This back-to-basics article does a great job of giving readers an overview of how gap financing works and highlights how foreign sales and tax incentives factor into who gets dollars from the bank.

Read the entire article here.