Micro-Budget Projects

The Micro-Budget Project Agreement

  • The Micro-Budget Project Agreement is designed to provide a streamlined signatory process for independent producers who have a project with a budget of $20,000 or less per picture (or per episode of episodic projects).

     

What Projects Qualify?

    • Entertainment Content - the type of project that would typically sign a new media agreement or the Short Project Agreement or the Student Film Agreement
    • Budgeted at $20,000 or less per picture or per episode
    • Recorded entirely in the US (and its territories)
    • Live Action 
    • Scripted and Unscripted 
    • Permitted Exhibition: 
      • Film Festivals
      • Free to the Consumer New Media (AVOD)
      • Required Screenings for Academy Award Consideration 
      • Public Access TV
      • For Demo Purposes
      • In The Classroom (student producers)
         

What Doesn’t Fit Under this Agreement?

  • This Agreement won’t be right for everyone. The following would not qualify for the Micro:

    • Animation 
    • Commercials
    • Corporate or Educational Videos
    • Music Videos
    • Audio only content including audiobooks, podcasts, and radio plays
    • Video Games
    • News/Broadcast
    • Projects including any nudity or simulated sex
    • Projects including any hazardous stunts
    • Projects where the producer has received any compensation in exchange for the right to distribute or exhibit it
       

What Are the Terms of this Agreement?

  • Most terms will be subject to negotiation between producer and performer. Please note that this Agreement does not create eligibility to join the union. 

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