We have just made some updates to our Global Film & Entertainment Investors Guide. The updates made on May include addition of some international investors that invest in film & entertainment opportunities; both mainstream and independent filming projects.

As many film festivals are also coming up in the 2nd half of 2010, these are often great opportunities for potential financing and investment purposes; we have also added a worksheet including film festivals worldwide in our Global Film & Entertainment Investors Guide.

A number of grants were also identified throughout May, and these were also included.

We are continuing our search for potential funding and investment sources for film & entertainment projects. Recently, we have started our focus in the European markets for instance; where we have seen increasing influential investment activities coming from German and Dutch investors; both supported by the Government agencies as well as the local media giants that are looking to expand into international markets.

Recent example that Village Roadshow which had successfully refinanced significant capital was another sign that even in tough times, they can still refinance and even raise capital in the filming & entertainment industries.

Village Roadshow is already a major financing company which had co-financed many productions including Sherlock Holmes, as well as documentaries, children movies, animations and international distributions are likely to finance more productions further down the track.

Our focus for June 2010 is to identify even more potential funding sources for filmmakers – this includes further research into investment & production firms outside USA, for example, Japanese film studios are another major source for potential funding for animations. Further analysis will also be carried out to 350 investment funds we had identified last week that were involved in the filming & entertainment industry.

There are also many signs that Indian media companies, followed by success of Reliance Media is keen to expand further into Hollywood; Indian media companies does have the resources as well as the freedom to invest into US markets.

In fact, they have already invested heavily both in studios and individual films; they have also invested in commercial production studios in UK and Australia as well.

In short, we do see India, Korea, Singapore as newly emerging film & entertainment powers from Asia, which was traditionally dominated by Hong Kong and Japanese studios.

Chinese firms may start to invest but there are too many censorship issues that need to be addressed before it can catch up with India and Korea in terms of international investments. Individuals, however, maybe quite interested in investing into North American film projects, especially if this can be somewhat assisting their immigration path, eg. As a qualified investment migrant into USA.

For more information about who’s who in the Film & Entertainment Investment market, please visit our website http://researchwhitepaper.com for more details about our Global Film & Entertainment Investors Guide. This guide covers Grants, Incentives, Festivals, Institutions, Media companies that invest in filming & entertainment opportunities, it also comes with 12 monthly updates as well.