Masterclass Diary

5 February 2007

Alan Harris Film Development - Financial Masterclass

FREE and open to all
14.00 - 16.00
University of Glamorgan G511

Alan Harris is a film financier and producer and is widely considered to be an expert on international film and television structuring, co-production and financing. 

Formerly Director of Finance at Grosvenor Park Media, Alan was involved in the financing of feature films including Michael Winterbottom’s The Claim, the USD$120m Reign of Fire, The Count of Monte Cristo, co-produced with Spyglass Disney, Cronenburg’s Cannes nominated Spider, and Imagining Argentina.

A specialist in UK media-related taxation legislation, Alan has set up and advised on structures that have financed more than half a billion pounds of UK feature films and television projects.  He oversaw a venture with Warner Bros to finance the prints and advertising on a slate of Warner’s feature films including Two Weeks Notice, Analyse That and The Last Samurai.  Alan has also set up Sale and Leaseback structures with Grosvenor Park Media, ScottsAtlantic and VisionInc, plus several EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) qualifying structures.

Alan performs consulting and executive producing roles advising producers in the UK, Europe and North America on international film structuring and how to untangle the requirements of the world's leading production jurisdictions to optimise the mix of fiscal incentives, subsidies, currency and crew variables.

Alan formed Atlantic Film Group in 2000 and has produced the USD$7m feature film The Aryan Couple, which won the Golden Palm Award Beverley Hills Film Festival, French language feature film 24 Heures de la Vie d'une Femme for France’s TFI International, Wallis and Edward, a USD$6 million 90 minute co-production with Company Pictures for ITV and more recently The Ferryman, a $7 million UK-New Zealand horror film, starring John Rhys-Davies, Tamer Hassan and Kerry Fox.

Alan has lectured on film production, co-production and financing all over the world and has also written and contributed to several text books on film and television financing. He is a regular contributor of articles for film and television industry magazines and publications.

Before moving to the film and television industry 10 years ago, Alan was a specialist in offshore funds, working in the Channel Islands and the City of London for blue chip firms Barclays International Funds and Merryl Lynch Asset Management.

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