Paymaster & Payment Processing for Film & Television

Every dollar of your production, moved right.

EPM is a payment-processing and paymaster company built exclusively for film and television. We receive your financing, pay your vendors, cast, and crew, and keep one clean set of books for your project — so your production office runs the shoot, not the wire transfers.

Scoped to Your Show

Run full production cashflow through EPM, or bring us in for a defined piece of it — working alongside your payroll provider.

Production-Specific Books

Dedicated ledgers, records, and statements of account for every project. Every dollar documented and reconcilable.

Your Money, Your Instructions

Funds are administered solely for your production’s benefit and disbursed only on your authorized payment instructions.

What We Do

From first funding to final wrap, we run the money.

EPM administers production cashflow at whatever scope your project needs — the full run of a show, or a defined slice of it. Payments go out on your authorized instructions, and every transaction is recorded against your production.

Funds Receipt & Administration

We receive production financing and other authorized funds from lenders, investors, and funding sources — administered solely for your production’s benefit.

Vendor & Expense Disbursement

Vendor invoices, equipment leases, purchases, locations, and approved production expenses — processed and paid on authorized instructions, fast.

Cast & Crew Payments

Payments to cast and crew handled through the disbursement pipeline, keeping talent paid on time and the production office out of the middle.

Payroll Coordination

Where applicable, we coordinate and fund payroll through independent third-party payroll providers — integrated into the same cashflow and records.

Ledgers, Records & Reporting

Clear, production-specific ledgers and statements of account — clean books for your accountant, your financiers, and your auditors.

Business-Affairs Support

Production business-affairs support as agreed — tailored to your budget, funding structure, and workflow.

How It Works

Four steps. One clean paper trail.

01

Engage

A paymaster & payment-processing agreement appoints EPM as your production’s limited agent, scoped to your needs.

02

Fund

Financing is advanced to EPM and administered for your production’s benefit under the agreement.

03

Disburse

We process and pay vendors, cast, crew, and expenses only on your authorized payment instructions.

04

Reconcile

Ledgers and statements of account track every movement — documented, reconcilable, audit-ready.

Where EPM Fits

The whole show — or exactly the piece you need.

Co-Productions

US-side fund movements

On international co-productions, EPM handles the US-specific receipt and disbursement of funds — cleanly separated, cleanly documented — while your international partners run their side.

Pre-Production

Cashflow before banking is live

Development and pre-production money often needs to move before production banking is set up. EPM disburses early spend against your instructions with full records from day one.

Full Run

End-to-end paymaster

From first financing to final wrap: funds in, payments out, and one clean set of production books the whole way through.

EPM works alongside your existing partners. Productions engage us next to traditional payroll companies for the specific pieces of cashflow those services don’t cover — or hand us the whole pipeline. Either way, the engagement is scoped to your production.

Why Productions Choose EPM

Built for how productions actually spend money.

01

Flexible by design

Every engagement is tailored to the production’s needs, approved budget, and funding structure. No off-the-shelf workflow forced onto your show.

02

Faster payments, calmer sets

Vendors and crew get paid on time, every time. A production that pays cleanly holds its deals, its people, and its schedule.

03

Books your financiers trust

One clean set of records per project gives lenders, investors, and auditors exactly what they need — and gives you leverage on the next raise.

04

A partner, not just a processor

Business-affairs support and payment workflows built around your production — an extension of your team, not another vendor to manage.

Get Started

Let’s talk about your production.

Tell us about your project, budget, and funding structure — we’ll come back with a tailored paymaster workflow and engagement terms.

Entity

Entertainment Payment Management LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company

Banking

Accounts held with Column N.A., Member FDIC (via Mercury)