Absolutely Anna: Budget for Documentary

Rough Budget Notes for “Absolutely Anna” One-Woman Show

(Filming in theater -one day shoot)
Ideas of theater space: The New School at the Drama School, Actor’s Studio 99 Theater at Bank Street, or New School General School

Bank Street Theater-
Contact: Tim Capalbo Production Supervisor

mailto: CapalboT@newschool.edu

Estimates
Total Length Estimated : 1.5 Hours

3 Camera Shoot (HD)
$1200 for the day (Abel Cinetech, for example)

3 Camera Crew
$1800

Lighting/Equipment

$700 for the day (could be as package with cameras)

Food/Catering for shoot
$500 depending on type of food

Transportation (Van Rental)
$300 (various rental companies estimate)

Tape or P2, SD cards for camera
$500

Rights to Material
$2500

Archival/Stock Footage
$2500

Music
$2000

Payment to Actress
$2500

Editor (Final Cut Pro)
$2500/week for 3 weeks= $7500

Editing Studio
$750/week

Production Staff/Crew

Associate Producer
$800/week for 2 weeks = $1600

Production Assistant
$150/day

Legal
$7,500

Theater Space Estimate
$500

Vanguard Productions Company
$10,000 and 5% contingency

Rough totals: $ 42,500 + 2,125 contingency

The Production Team

Joanna Sanchez (Executive Producer)
Joanna is a veteran film and television actress who has also served as a casting director and producer. She is the daughter of Anna Berger and Bob Malatsky.
Charles Hobson (Producer/Consultant)

Executive Producer of Vanguard Documentaries, premieres “Harlem in Montmarte,” this August for PBS’s “Great Performances.” MOMA interviews him about his acclaimed four-decade film career June 2, in “Conversations Among Friends.” His many films include “Porgy and Bess: An American Voice” (PBS), “Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant,” “Jump Street: The History of Black Music,” and “Producer, Like It Is. (ABC-TV) ” His awards include an Emmy, Fulbright (Germany), The Japan Prize (Special Citation), and CINE “Golden Eagle.” Hobson has taught at SUNY, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Vassar, and lectured at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. He will be Artist in Residence this summer at Art Workshop International, Assai, Italy.

Dan Schneider, Esq. (Co-Producer/General Counsel)
Dan Schneider is a partner in the Manhattan law firm of Schneider, Pfahl & Rahme, LLP. He has been practicing entertainment, corporate, new media, intellectual property (copyrights and trademarks) and real property law for more than 27 years in Manhattan and Woodstock, N.Y. A graduate of Vassar College (AB, 1979, Evans Fellow in Law) and Emory Law School (JD, 1982, Emory Scholar), he is admitted to the New York and Georgia bars, as well as to the U.S. District Court (Southern District, N.Y.). Mr. Schneider has been AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell (www.schneiderpfahl.com). A member of numerous non-profit Boards, including The America The Beautiful Fund, The Giulio Gari Foundation, The Florence Belsky Charitable Foundation and the Hudson Valley Technology and Commerce, Dan is the founder of First Mondays (www.firstmondays.com), a quarterly networking group, first founded in 2002 to help New Yorkers help themselves during difficult times. Dan’s successful non-profit experiences include being Project Manager for a joint NEA Arts in Education Grant to the Woodstock Day School and Woodstock Youth Theatre, which resulted in the creation of three (3) new collaborative works which were publicly performed in Ulster County, New York. He is currently serving as Executive Director of a new non-profit: www.icanstilldothat.org, whose mission is to help put American back to work. The Foundation hopes to make First Mondays a national, monthly event, and is creating mutual mentor programs such as: www.womenmentorwomen.org. Dan was a co-founder of www.bigshoesnyc.com and has produced several films, including short documentaries, commercials, music videos and features.

Rebecca Allen ( Co-Producer, Editor )
Rebecca has worked as a video engineer since 1987. She started in post-production editorial at Paramount Pictures at the age of 19 years old and joined the Editors Guild. Years later she went on to production video and sound providing video playback and video assist on the sets of Warner Brothers, Universal, Sony and many other independent productions in Hollywood, California. In 2008 Rebecca began moonlighting as a camera assistant on feature films and television reality shows, working with the Red HD movie camera. She has her own company Rebel Video Production, and acquired her own 1080i HD camera, and Final Cut editing software, building her business in documentary style productions. The love of shooting on location, and the creative process of putting it together in the editing room is a passion she shares with the network of directors and producers Rebecca has available to her for future projects on the west coast.

Absolutely Anna

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