Terms and Conditions:

We are a for-hire production company that handles the tedious aspects of production for you and can cover any projects we are working on under our umbrella insurance policy. We assure you, our for-hire rates are still much less expensive than purchasing a policy on your own.

Here’s how it works:

• Think of We Make Movies as your film studio. Studios typically provide insurance, legal protection, process payroll, secure permits, handle union and cast/crew contract paperwork, interface with vendors, and generally provide a structure for the production of your project.

• One advantage to working with us instead of a traditional studio is that we will NOT claim or take any ownership rights to your Intellectual Property/creative/story of your project. We will not seek any additional compensation or back-end on your project if it’s sold or returns a profit. We outline this in our deal memo which we sign before beginning work. 

• You’re welcome to bring on additional production companies/producers to handle any and all creative production, but all insurance requirements and payroll (if applicable) must be handled by WMM solely.

• For your paid cast and crew, we can handle the onboarding and processing of those workers for you via Wrapbook (the most competitively priced payroll platform we’ve found!).  We can also provide workers comp for any interns or volunteers you tell us are getting paid less than $600 total in stipends (the IRS reporting threshold.) Otherwise they must be paid via payroll to be covered with WC. If your budget can't accommodate payroll fees please see this page on stipends (or reach out to us and we can walk you through other solutions).

• Any vendors, locations, city or state permitting agency fees that need to be covered by a COI must be processed and paid for by us. We add a processing fee of 3%.

• We don't offer gear rental ourselves, but we have exclusive deals and deep discounts with trusted vendors that our clients can take advantage of. Just ask us for more info! 

• Narrative feature films cannot be covered under our blanket policy, however, we are able to help secure an affordable separate policy for you.

• We Make Movies needs to be listed on all call sheets and “Insurance Services provided by Irene Quintero – Momentous Insurance Brokerage, A Marsh McLennan Agency Company” must be listed in the credits of your project. 

Our insurance policy does not insure against Covid-19 exposure to cast or crew, or the cost of re-shoots or delays resulting from a production being shut down due to Covid-19. We are not aware of ANY insurance policies that provide coverage for this kind of exposure at this time.

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Any questions please email [email protected]