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Film Financing OS
Deals, sales & collections, credit ratings, accounting, contacts and communications — the underwriting workspace that runs your slate.
Monika · From Ashland Hill Media Finance
The film financing operating system for the next decade of independent cinema.
Monika is the AI-driven workspace for film and media finance — built by Ashland Hill Media Finance in Santa Monica. Underwriting, sales estimates, production risk, smart budgets, soft-funding discovery, talent intelligence and a full data room — in one operator-grade workspace, run on a slate that has closed hundreds of deals and deployed billions to independent film and TV.
A film-finance operating system
10 product modules · 18 AI tools · 16 global incentive programs
Products
Ten products, one operating system.
Monika is the workspace that Ashland Hill built to run our own film-finance practice — and that we now offer to producers, sales agents, lenders and family offices financing independent and studio-adjacent film.
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Sales Estimates Generator
TMDB- and OMDB-driven comps. Territory MG projections, box-office forecasting, ancillary revenue models — benchmarked against real comparable films.
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Production Risk Scoring
AI scores six risk dimensions (0–100), assigns a tier and surfaces concrete mitigations — from cast attachment risk to weather exposure.
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Smart Budgeting
Generative low / mid / high budget scenarios with line items — so producers and lenders can stress-test the same project from both sides.
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Production Scheduling
AI-generated day-by-day shooting schedules with location clustering — turning a script breakdown into a realistic bond-grade plan.
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Soft Funding Discovery
16 seeded global incentive programs and a rebate calculator — find the right tax credit, grant, or rebate for any production footprint.
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Deal Closing & Data Room
Per-deal closing checklists and document tracking — the workspace where investment committee, finance and legal converge.
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Audience & Marketing Intelligence
AI-predicted audience segments, marketing channels and release strategy — feeding directly back into your revenue model.
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Talent Intelligence
TMDB-powered actor and director search with heat / fit / ROI scoring — cast packaging informed by data, not just instinct.
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Credit Scoring (ML)
Random Forest and Logistic Regression models per collateral class — Pre-Sales, Gap, Tax Credit — with feature-importance and per-deal contribution charts.
How it works
From script package to closed deal — without leaving Monika.
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Originate & underwrite
Drop a project package into Monika. The chat agent spins up a deal record, pulls comparable titles from TMDB / OMDB, and generates a first-pass underwriting view across budget, cast, territory and collateral type.
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Stress-test & structure
Run AI-driven sales estimates, production risk scoring and smart budgeting side-by-side. ML credit scoring (Pre-Sales, Gap, Tax Credit) gives you a portfolio-grade view on a single deal — not just a one-off opinion.
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Close & manage
The data room, closing checklists, transactions ledger and communications all live in the same workspace. Investment committee, sales and production accountant work off one source of truth.
Slate
The slate Monika was built on.
Ashland Hill projects are as diverse as the filmmakers who bring them to us — from franchise tentpoles to authentic genre pieces and groundbreaking independent film. Monika is the underwriting and portfolio workspace built around exactly this kind of slate. A selection of recent projects below; the full archive lives at ashland-hill.com/projects.
Team
Meet the Ashland Hill team.
The team behind Monika is the same team that closes Ashland Hill's deals — international, spanning five countries, with decades of institutional and private film-finance experience.
Joe Simpson
Managing Partner
Simon Williams
Managing Partner
Joe Jenckes
Senior Vice President, Production
Juliana Lubin
Senior Vice President, Investments
Andy Wang
Vice President, Investments
Luigi Spitaleri
Vice President, Business Development & Strategy
Merrick Stoller
Manager, Production
Tre Caine
Associate, Finance and Operations
Matthew Chausse
Consultant, Production
Daemon Hillin
Consultant
Sherry Angelique
Executive Assistant
Brought to you by Ashland Hill
A Santa Monica film-finance practice — now shipping its own software.
Ashland Hill Media Finance provides the capital required to help producers, filmmakers and storytellers turn their visions into reality. The team has closed hundreds of deals and deployed billions of dollars to independent film and TV — partnered with institutional investors and some of the industry's most experienced deal-closers.
We're more than financiers — we're cinephiles with hands-on experience producing our own projects, so we know the process, the pain points, and how to get over, around and through them. Monika is the operating system we built for ourselves, and now offer to other capital providers and producers who want the same underwriting and portfolio discipline.
◐Ashland Hill
Santa Monica, California
Pacific time-zone media finance
- Pre-sales lending
- Gap finance
- Tax-credit lending
- Minimum guarantees
- Equity participation
Get started
Underwriting your next slate?
Monika is in active use on Ashland Hill's own deal book. We open access selectively to producers, sales agents, lenders and family offices working in film and media finance.