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Panel stresses lawyers' value in film funding: Hollywoodreporter.com: "To navigate the byzantine world of international film financing, a panel of experts suggested the most valuable weapon in a filmmaker's arsenal remains a knowledgeable lawyer. 'In a nutshell, it is more and more of a partnership, and I think the entire independent U.S. film marketplace is in complete partnership with Europe,' film financier Bob Yari said, commenting on the overall health of relations in the European-American financing marketplace. 'But it becomes extremely complicated to structure, for example, a German fund investment into a film with a U.K. sale lease-back fund. It is doable, but it just takes tremendous expertise, and that is another component you need to explore.' Yari's comments came Tuesday morning at a packed American Film Market panel titled 'The State of Film Financing in Europe and the U.S.'"