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Louise Levison, Film Finance Consultant
Louise Levison is President of Business Strategies (moviemoney.com) a consulting firm that specializes in writing business plans for film and other entertainment-related companies.
She is the author of Filmmakers & Financing: Business Plans for Independents (Fourth Edition, December 2003, Focal Press) and publisher/editor of The Film Entrepreneur: A Newsletter for the Independent Filmmaker and Investors.
Some of her recent clients' films are The Blair Witch Project, the most profitable independent film in history, Hoover starring Ernest Borgnine, The First of May starring Julie Harris and Joe DiMaggio, Michael Winslow Live, Extreme Days, Dinner Rush, Baptist At Our Barbecue, High Roller: Highroller: The Stu Ungar Story, The Secret and the European films Charles V and Olivetti 82.
Among her other corporate clients are Louverture Films (Danny Glover), Tokuma International Ltd ( Shall We Dance and Princess Mononoke), The Ilya Salkind Company, WhiteLight Entertainment (Academy Award-winner Gerald Molen) and Gener8Xion Entertainment (The Omega Code).. Levison is also an affiliate of the Berlin-based consulting company, Peacefulfish (peacefulfish.com).
Levison is an Adjunct Professor in the Extension Program at UCLA. She has presented seminars and/or been on panels for Film Independent (FIND) and the Sundance Film Festival, Producer's Guild of America, ShowBiz Expo, Galway Ireland) Film Fleadh. National Assoc. Of Latino Independent Producers, Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts, Florida Motion Picture and Television Association, Cincinnati Film Commission, Arizona Film Commission, Independent Cinema Expo, Women in Film, California Lawyers for the Arts, American Black Film Festival, Hollywood Film Festival, Hollywood Black Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Malibu Film Festival, The Learning Annex, Los Angeles Venture Association, USC Entrepreneurial Program and the National Association of Women Business Owners. Levison is a fellow with the Center of Entertainment Industry Data and Research and the independent film expert on its recent study on "The Migration of Feature Film From The U.S. to Canada."
Prior to working in the entertainment industry, Levison worked in corporations for 18 years.
Levison 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 the Independent Feature Project/West, Women in Film, the International Documentary Association and the U.S. Internet Industry Assoc.
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.
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