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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.

Her clients’ films include:

• “The Blair Witch Project” – the most profitable independent film in history
• “Toussaint” (directed by Danny Glover, in preproduction)
• “Hoover,”
• “The First of May”
• “Protecting the King”
• “Dinner Rush”
• “ExtremeDays”
• “Highroller: the Stu Unger Story”
• “Baptists At Our Barbecue”

Among her corporate clients are:

• Louverture Films (Africa Unite!, Bamako)
• The Ilya Salkind Company
• WhiteLight Entertainment (Academy Award-winner Gerald Molen)
• Tokuma International Ltd (Shall We Dance and Princess Mononoke)
• The Pamplin Film Company
• Gener8Xion Entertainment (The Omega Code)

Levison is also an affiliate of the Berlin-based consulting company, Peacefulfish. [hyperlink to peacefulfish.com]
Ms. Levison is perhaps most well known as the author of Filmmakers and Financing: Business Plans for Independents and as publisher/editor of “The Film Entrepreneur: A Newsletter for the Independent Filmmaker and Investor.”
She is an Adjunct Professor in the Extension Program at UCLA and has been a Visiting Professor at the Taipei (Taiwan) National University of the Arts 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
• ALM- SRI's Annual Film Finance & Distribution Summit
• The Florida Motion Picture and Television Association
• The Hollywood Black Film Festival
• National Assoc. of Latino Independent Producers
• Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts
• The Cincinnati Film Commission
• Women in Film
• California Lawyers for the Arts
• The Hollywood Film Festival
• Austin Film Festival
• The Learning Annex
• The Los Angeles Venture Association
• National Association of Women Business Owners
  

Prior to working in the entertainment industry, Ms. Levison was a market analyst for the American Iron and Steel Association, an Economist at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Palo Alto (CA) and Director of Corporate Planning for Torrance Memorial Medical Center and the City of Hope.
For three years she co-hosted a call-in radio show for entrepreneurs on the Business Radio Network and is a former registered stockbroker. She holds an M.A. in Asian Area Studies from New York University and an M.B.A. in Finance from California State University.