Pair interviews and source material with dramatized scenes to give a true story an additional screen dimension.
$100,000–$300,000
Documentary with scripted reenactments
Built for your story.
Memoir, biography, history, faith, leadership, and true-story authors whose material benefits from dramatization.
- Documentary treatment plus scripted reenactment scenes
- Fact-versus-dramatization review and legal clearance coordination
- Cast, locations, wardrobe, production design, and scene scheduling within the selected budget
- A finished film with a pitch package, audience campaign, and release strategy
Choose your production scope.
Focused Docudrama
$100,000A 25–40 minute film. Up to five shoot days, two contained reenactment scenes, four speaking performers, and two principal locations.
Signature Docudrama
$200,000A 45–60 minute film. Up to ten shoot days, five contained reenactment scenes, six speaking performers, and four principal locations.
Feature Docudrama
$300,000A 60–90 minute film. Up to fifteen shoot days, eight contained reenactment scenes, eight speaking performers, and six principal locations.
These are alternative production levels within the package range. Each tier funds its defined film, rather than a separate fee added to the range.
From the page to the release.
Develop
Book and rights assessment, audience brief, treatment, budget, production schedule, and release objectives.
Produce
Producer coordination, agreed crew and equipment, scheduled filming, interview or performance direction, and production management.
Finish
Picture edit, sound edit and mix, color finishing, licensed music within the agreed allowance, English captions, master, trailer, and release artwork.
Launch
A book-led SLO funnel, consent-based reader follow-up, campaign assets, pitch preparation, and a route-specific distribution plan.
Assess a serialized true-story adaptation.
A memoir or biography offers an episodic direction when the source material supports connected scenes. Identify dramatized moments and assess cast, clearances, and production scope separately.
Explore Mini Dramas & Short Series ➜What your package includes.
- Approved treatment, production budget, schedule, and milestone approvals
- Director / producer coordination and the crew, equipment, and shoot days in your scope
- Editorial review, finishing, and delivery defined in your scope
- Promotional assets appropriate to the selected scope
- An agreed book-to-viewer offer and follow-up journey
- Campaign preparation appropriate to the agreed route
- Pitch materials and an agreed outreach scope
- Release planning, reporting, and handoff responsibilities
A plan beyond production.
How the engagement works
Your written production agreement confirms the finished duration, crew, shoot days, locations, rights, deliverables, and cost allowances. Advertising spend, travel outside the agreed region, major archive or music rights, celebrity talent, stunts, visual effects, legal services, E&O insurance, translations, cinema bookings, and distributor or platform fees are quoted separately unless expressly included. The package does not purchase guaranteed financing, a studio deal, or a platform placement.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the package price cover?
The scope listed here sets the starting production parameters. Your signed budget allocates funds between development, production, post-production, and campaign delivery. Optional costs require written approval.
Does this include pitching to Netflix or other buyers?
Pitch materials and a target plan are included. Submission execution follows buyer policies and an approved route. Where a buyer requires representation, a qualified producer, sales agent, attorney, manager, or distributor with the appropriate access must participate. Any representation fee is identified in the proposal.
Will the film raise its own production money?
The campaign supports audience-building, reward offers, sponsorship outreach, and fundraising preparation. Advertising recovery and fundraising depend on response. Production begins only after the agreed funding milestones are met.
Start with the story.
Put a production plan behind the ambition.
Discuss your book, preferred format, budget, rights, and audience with IME Publishing Group™.
Discuss Your Film Project➜