Advice on finding someone to do contracts to film your series (low budget series).

This is something I would 100% recommend doing, but it wasn’t as straightforward as I had hoped it might be. When we first started researching which lawyers handled film industry contracts, there are only a select few who do. I thought I would just make a short list, call for quotes, and make a selection. So I began with that in mind but soon found that many of them would not call us back at all, but I am very persistent so I kept calling until I actually got through. I even talked to one higher profile lawyer on this lunch break! I soon found, however, that regardless of the size of the production or the relative risk involved with the shoot, the cost to get these boilerplate contracts filled in was going to be anywhere from $1500-3000! This was not a viable option for us as our budget was very small, but we still felt strongly we should have the proper contracts in place. Eventually, I was able to contact with a local lawyer who called me back and was willing to offer some free advice upfront, too. This lawyer could provide us with contracts at a much lower rate, compared to the others, and they were not of a lower quality. One thing we learned during our meeting with the lawyer is that they cannot represent two separate film groups or people at the same time who are working on a project together. The reason being is that if there is a dispute between the parties, they can’t, of course, represent both of them at the same time. One other thing I had encountered during our research was that many of the attractive looking online legal forms were strictly for the US and not Canada.