Chicago Company Matches Angel Investor Opportunities Once Reserved Only For Venture Capital, Hedge Funds, & Institutional Investors In Hollywood film productions

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ANYWHERE , California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) April 3, 2011 -- Many Angel Investors from Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Europe, Asia and other self-made entrepreneurs who may have cashed out big with hedge funds, oil & gas, startups, etc., have an abundant amount of private equity investment opportunities available to them. Technology, green investments, biotech, Internet, manufacturing, distressed real estate, etc. is just a portion of the industries in which equity is starting to pour in.

But for many investors, the lure of great investment opportunities intersected with the reality of premium returns on their money is another issues. How many deals are there like Groupon, Facebook, Google, Zynga, etc that investors are able to access during Series A rounds of finance vs. paying a premium if the companies go public?

Noci Pictures (http://www.noci.com), is a Chicago and Los Angeles based company that provides an alternative platform for angel investors, family offices, and hedge funds to educate themselves on the intricacies and risk minimized possibilities that exist in investing in one movie or a portfolio of films.

"Because of the limited opportunities that exist for most angel investors, hedge funds, family offices, and other private equity groups to find and invest in the next Facebook, Groupon, or other closed circuit private alternative investment or start-up, media & entertainment continues to be a growth oriented industry", Yuri Rutman, the company's managing partner states. "But we are leveraging all angles of social media to educate financiers that investing in a single film or a portfolio or films is not about being sexy or hanging out with Hollywood stars, but rather investing in a manufacturing and technology company, where each one takes a life of its ow in terms of revenues and exit strategies".

Noci Pictures has a very privileged and sophisticated way of financially participating in a basket of commercial films, which unlike a mutual fund, REIT, hedge fund, oil & gas investment, or other correlated asset class, can in certain instances provide a 30-100% ROI prior to revenues that has full transparency and has zero quantitative, exotic, or other confusing financial models that have in the last few years proven to be more risk than reward.

And with the growing demand of 3D Cinema, VOD, mobile technology, social media and word of mouth marketing, and long term library valuation and multi-tier ancillary revenues, Noci Pictures has developed a very innovative business model and financial product that is scalable to both smaller investors and large institutional capital.

"If you look at the recent Sundance Film Festival, there were something like 40 distribution deals done for films ranging in budgets from $50,000 to a few million", states Rutman. "Obviously this sending a clear message to investors who have not been educated on the upside of film that there is a healthy and robust demand for media & entertainment vehicles. Further, when institutional investors such as Fortress, Fidelity, or Elliot Associates are publicly announcing their various film fund holdings, it showcases a positive response from institutional investors which may pave the ground for individual investors".

On the flip side, many investors may seem cautious in even considering an investment in the movie business because of the many horror stories and failures that were prevalent in many film financing deals.

"As a non correlated asset class, film finance, production, and distribution outperforms every other non-correlated asset class in the world" states Rutman. "For every film investor who lost money investing in their nephew's film school thesis project that they thought would be commercial or for every institutional investor that got the last straw on heavily leveraged senior and mezzanine debt film funds, our models are 100% transparent. We know what works, how to leverage equity by partnering up with global government film incentives and soft money (tax credits) that offsets the risk. Plus, we control theatrical and foreign distribution internally so there aren't multiple layers of repayments, fees, or commissions to third parties but everything is handled internally which gives equity a higher ROI".

The Company claims it is currently getting a barrage of interest from global HNW angel investors, family offices, former tech and .com CEO's who are curious why Larry Ellison, Jeff Skoll, Mark Cuban, Norman Waitt, and many others from that space are heavily invested in competing film companies, as well as interest from Venture Capitalists, hedge funds, fund of funds, and wealth advisers and private bankers.

"This is not a sexy deal where the upside for investors is to party with movie stars and have opportunities to be at the Cannes Film Festival", Rutman adds. "The IRS considers film production to be a manufacturing company so all we are doing is looking to manufacture as many films as possible and educate virgin investors" .

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