Just as George Banks, Mary Poppins’ bowler-hatted boss sang nearly 60 years ago, bankers demand “precision” when they go to work. Without “order” there’s a danger of “chaos and moral disintegration … and a ghastly mess.” Well sung, given that the world today faces existential “disorder” as media and entertainment bank-ers wind their way to the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
The past 15 years have already thrown outsized curve balls of their own at bankers and second-tier financiers, including the financial crisis of 2008-09, when the Masters of the Universe suffered from a Marvel-scale crisis — leading to a plethora of bank media and entertainment loan books being closed — and giving rise to a host of second tier financing operations. Fast forward to March 2020, even before the Covid-19 pandemic shook the globe, and the lending industry saw a range of key players exit the independent sector. Bank Leumi, First Republic, Pacific Mercantile and Bank Hapoalim all shuttered,...
The past 15 years have already thrown outsized curve balls of their own at bankers and second-tier financiers, including the financial crisis of 2008-09, when the Masters of the Universe suffered from a Marvel-scale crisis — leading to a plethora of bank media and entertainment loan books being closed — and giving rise to a host of second tier financing operations. Fast forward to March 2020, even before the Covid-19 pandemic shook the globe, and the lending industry saw a range of key players exit the independent sector. Bank Leumi, First Republic, Pacific Mercantile and Bank Hapoalim all shuttered,...
- 5/10/2022
- by Angus Finney
- Variety Film + TV
Ifp will advise international film and TV productions “in the areas of film financing and the provision of technical services with a special focus on Germany”.
Former Deutsche Bank executive Bernie Stampfer and outgoing Bavaria Film Partners (Bfp) managing director Markus Vogelbacher [pictured] have joined forces to launch the film financing broker and consultancy International Film Partners (Ifp) Entertainment.
According to Stampfer and Vogelbacher, Ifp will advise international film and TV productions “in the areas of film financing and the provision of technical services with a special focus on Germany”.
The new company will have a presence in Munich, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Moscow and Hong Kong thanks to the partners’ wide network of contacts.
With the establishment of Ifp, Munich-based Bavaria Film closed down operations of its 100% subsidiary Bfp at the end of last month.
Bfp had been managed by Vogelbacher since being set up in February 2011 specifically to attract international service-driven co-productions to Germany and to...
Former Deutsche Bank executive Bernie Stampfer and outgoing Bavaria Film Partners (Bfp) managing director Markus Vogelbacher [pictured] have joined forces to launch the film financing broker and consultancy International Film Partners (Ifp) Entertainment.
According to Stampfer and Vogelbacher, Ifp will advise international film and TV productions “in the areas of film financing and the provision of technical services with a special focus on Germany”.
The new company will have a presence in Munich, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Moscow and Hong Kong thanks to the partners’ wide network of contacts.
With the establishment of Ifp, Munich-based Bavaria Film closed down operations of its 100% subsidiary Bfp at the end of last month.
Bfp had been managed by Vogelbacher since being set up in February 2011 specifically to attract international service-driven co-productions to Germany and to...
- 9/7/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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