Financing
You can read the two share columns and know what each divides by.
Financiers do not ask for your absolute figures. They ask what share of the film they are carrying — and whether the national quota is met.
Two columns answer that, and the difference between them is only the denominator.
| Column | The source's share of… | Its own tooltip | | --------------------- | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | | **Country Financing** | the money from **its own country** | *Share of financing source within country* | | **Total Financing** | the **whole plan** | *Share of financing source in grand total* |
A German fund showing **40% Country Financing** and **22% Total Financing** is carrying 40% of the German money and 22% of the film. Both are true, and they answer different people's questions: the fund cares about the first, a co-production authority about the second.
Two figures are worth knowing by heart for any plan:
- **each country's own total share** — the co-production ratio, the thing minority co-productions live or die by; - **the largest single Total Financing** — your concentration risk. One source at 45% is a different film from six at 8% if that source withdraws.
Both are computed, not entered. Change an amount, move a source to another country, and both recalculate — a source dragged into another country changes its Country Financing immediately, because the denominator changed.
Check the amounts first. A source with a blank Amount is 0% of everything, and drags every other share in its country up — the percentages still total 100%, but of less money than you think — see [read the grand totals](/kb/article/read-the-financing-grand-totals).
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