Louise Levison is President and Founder of Business Strategies, a consulting firm that writes business plans for film and entertainment companies, developing corporate strategies and guiding entrepreneurs in looking for and working with equity financing. She is the author of “Filmmakers and Financing: Business Plans for Independents” and publisher/editor of “The Film Entrepreneur: A Newsletter for the Independent Filmmaker and Investor.”
Her clients’ films include:
- “The Blair Witch Project” – the most profitable independent film in history
- "Trouble the Water"
- "Moving Midway"
- "Visual Acoustics"
- “Highroller: the Stu Unger Story”
- Crimebusters
- The Open Road
- Bailey
- Broken Hill
- Paradise (aka Little Chicago)
- The First of May
- Protecting the King"
- “Baptists At Our Barbecue”
Among her corporate clients are:
- Louverture Films
- Louverture Film Fund I
- The Pamplin Film Company
- Majestic World Entertainment
- WhiteLight Entertainment
- Tokuma International Ltd
- LightTower Entertainment
- Summitworks Film Fund I
- Monterrey Pictures Entertainment
- Audience Alliance Motion Picture Studios
- Levison is also an affiliate of the Berlin-based consulting company, Peacefulfish.
She is an Instructor in the Extension Program at UCLA and has been a Visiting Professor at the Taipei (Taiwan) National University of the Arts, the University of Montana (Missoula) and Chapman University and conducted workshops at film festivals around the U.S. and overseas, including:
- Film Independent
- The Sundance Film Festival
- ShowBiz Expo
- Galway (Ireland) Film Fleadh
- Producer’s Guild of America
- National Assocaition of Broadcasters
- National Assoc. of Latino Indepdent Producers
- Women in Film
- The Florida Motion Picture and Television Association
- Florida Media Market
- The Hollywood Black Film Festival
- Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts
- The Cincinnati Film Commission
- ALM- SRI's Annual Film Finance & Distribution Summit
- Georgia Film and Videa Center
- American Black Film Festival
- California Lawyers for the Arts
- The Hollywood Film Festival
- Austin Film Festival
- Nashville Film Festival
- Arizona Film Comission
- The Learning Annex
- The Los Angeles Venture Association
- National Association of Women Business Owners
Prior to working in the entertainment industry, Levison worked for the Stanford Research Institute, the American Iron and Steel Institute, two non-profit hospital corporations and as a stockbroker. She also co-hosted a call-in radio show (heard on 100 stations in the United States, Canada and Mexico) on the Business Radio Network for three years and is a former stockbroker. She is on the Advisory Board of CineWomen and a member of Film Independent (Los Angeles), Women in Film, the International Documentary Association and the U.S. Internet Industry Association. Her graduate education includes an M.A. in Asian Area Studies from New York University and an M.B.A. in Finance from California State University, Dominguez Hills.
