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Keep every financier, buyer and outside unit in one record with a next step.

A CRM for a film production house is a single record of every financier, distributor, platform contact, co-producer and outside unit, with what was sent and what is due. GullySales sets it up around your projects, using a tool already in ordinary use in India such as Zoho CRM or a well-kept sheet.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Sales and marketing for film production houses, the overview.

Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For film production houses

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The relationship outlives the project”

    A distributor who passed on one film may take the next. If the note of that conversation sits in a producer's phone, the next project starts from nothing.

  • “One contact belongs to several threads”

    An actor's manager, a financier and a platform executive can appear in conversations about different films at the same time. Without a shared record, two people on your team contact the same person with different asks.

  • “Documents are the milestones”

    The budget breakdown, cast letter, script and schedule are what moves a deal. A record that notes which document went to whom, and which version, avoids sending out an old budget.

What we do

What we deliver for film production houses.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Contact and company structure

    A record layout for financiers, buyers, co-producers and units, with fields for language, territory and projects discussed.

    Result: Anyone on the team can find a contact and its history.

  2. Project-linked pipeline

    A pipeline per project showing each party's stage, from introduced to read to in discussion to passed.

    Result: You see where each project stands with each party.

  3. Document log

    A note of which document and version each party received and when.

    Result: You know what each party has already seen.

  4. Owner and next action

    A named owner on your side and a due action for every open conversation.

    Result: No interested party is left without an owner.

  5. Team handover guide

    A short guide for adding contacts, updating stages and closing a conversation.

    Result: New team members keep the record in the same form.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Fields worth keeping

The fields that keep every financier, buyer and outside unit on one record.

Company and person
The team enters both the buying company and each person in it. A financier moves between firms and takes the relationship along.
Project linked
Which film the conversation concerns, so one contact can sit on two projects without the notes running together.
Documents sent and date
The deck, budget summary or synopsis sent, and the date. It shows what the contact has already seen.
Pass reason in their words
Why a buyer declined, recorded as said, so the next project is offered with that reply in mind.
Next action and owner
One named person and one step per contact, which stops the thread dying after a good meeting.

Who it is for

This is written for these film production houses.

  • Mainstream Hindi and regional-language feature production houses
  • Independent producers working on festival and art-house films
  • Production houses attached to a star or a director
  • Co-production companies working with studios abroad
  • Service-production houses that shoot for other producers and foreign units
  • Producers of low-budget genre films aimed at digital release
  • Regional cinema producers in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi and Bhojpuri

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Contacts live in individual phones and the team will not share them, so the record would hold half the names
  • You hold one project and a handful of contacts, so a spreadsheet will do for now

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We sit with the people who sell and write down how a deal moves from enquiry to payment, including where it stalls.

  2. 2

    Agree stages, fields and owners

    Each stage gets a name your team already uses and a proof that the deal has left it. We agree which fields are required at which stage, and who may change what.

  3. 3

    Build on a copy

    Pipeline, fields and views are built on a trial copy where the CRM offers one, or in a separate pipeline where the plan allows. Live work stays untouched.

  4. 4

    Connect channels, then switch on automations

    Channels are connected first. Each automation is then switched on separately, so a misfiring rule is easy to find.

  5. 5

    Test with real deals

    The people who will use the CRM run open deals through it. Gaps are fixed before the whole team switches over.

  6. 6

    Switch over and trim

    Once real use shows which fields stay empty and which stages nobody uses, those are cut and the handover record is updated.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Do we need paid software?
Not necessarily. A well-kept shared sheet works for a small slate. Move to a CRM tool when several people update records or when the sheet becomes hard to search.
Can the CRM hold confidential deal terms?
Keep terms in your legal and finance records. The CRM should hold contact, stage, documents sent and next action, so access can be wider than for financial files.
How do we record a contact who works for two companies?
Create one person and link that person to both companies, marking which one they act for on each project. Agents and consultants work for several houses. A single entry keeps the history together and stops two team members sending the same pitch.
Can we add contacts from a festival badge scan?
Yes, if the contact agreed to be kept. Add them with the festival name and the film shown, so the follow-up reads as a continuation. A scanned card is not permission for bulk messages, so write to each person on their own.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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