Production Finance
Senior secured financing for qualifying film, television and other screen productions, structured against contracted and statutory cash flows that can be verified, assigned and collected.
The problem we finance
A funded production is rarely a funded bank account. Licence fees pay on delivery milestones. Tax credits and incentives pay after certification and assessment, often a year or more after the money was spent. Public funding and distribution advances arrive on their own schedules. The production, meanwhile, pays crew, facilities and suppliers every week.
That gap between committed value and collected cash is a financing problem with identifiable collateral. It is the gap Jinks is built to finance: against the receivables a production has already earned or contracted, not against the hope that a finished program finds an audience.
Collateral we lend against
Facilities are structured against specific categories of contracted or statutory receivables. Inclusion in a financing plan depends on verification of each receivable, its payer and its timing.
- Tax credits and screen incentives
- Federal, provincial and state programs, where the credit is financeable and its certification path is clear.
- Broadcaster and streamer licence fees
- Contracted fees from established buyers, payable on defined milestones.
- Presales and minimum guarantees
- Binding distribution commitments from creditworthy counterparties.
- Distribution receivables
- Amounts owed under executed distribution agreements.
- Public funding receivables
- Committed amounts from government funds and agencies.
- Bridge and cash-flow facilities
- Shorter-dated needs tied to identifiable, contracted collateral.
What underwriting examines
Every facility is underwritten receivable by receivable. The questions are always the same.
- Counterparty quality: who owes the money, and what is their record of paying.
- Legal enforceability: is each receivable assignable, and is our security position perfected.
- Certification status: for incentives, where the claim stands in the certification and assessment process, since collateral strength changes as certification progresses.
- Production status and completion risk: what stands between today and delivery, and whether a completion guarantee is in place.
- The financing plan as a whole: whether committed sources actually carry the production through delivery.
- Timing: when each receivable pays, mapped against how the facility draws and repays.
- Security: first-ranking charges, assignment of contracts and receivables, and guarantees where the structure requires them.
What this is not
Jinks does not provide development capital, does not invest in projects on the strength of expected audience performance, and does not treat an unsigned deal memo as collateral. Financing terms are tailored to the underlying asset, cash flows and transaction requirements, and are established in underwriting rather than published as a rate card.
Financing a production
Send us the financing plan, the committed contracts and the timeline. That is enough to establish whether a facility is worth discussing.
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