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Budget Help for a Documentary-filmmaker Robert Bahar- documentary.org
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Posted 10:57 PM Dec. 1, 2017

Shared format from filmmaker Robert Bahar referenced in this older (but still in many ways relevant) article

http://www.documentary.org/images/programs/fsp/IntroDocBudgetBahar.pdf

His version uses more of an above the line/below the line approach which is common in feature filmmaking. I think he has good advice on line items, but I still think it is better for doc filmmakers to use a stages of production format since you often must only fundraise for one stage at a time.