• Instant Access

    *Printable Digital PDF*

  • Fully Updated

    *Current 2025 industry rates*

  • Video Tutorial

    *Video instructional*

Description

The 2025 Documentary Going Rates Table (printable PDF + video guide) is a fully updated, comprehensive budgeting resource that covers all the expenses involved in a documentary production: everything from documentary crew rates to insurance to closed captioning to attorney fees.

A perfect companion to the Documentary Budget Template Pack and Budgeting Masterclass.

The Going Rates Table (GRT) provides the low-end to high-end price ranges for all of your documentary budgeting needs, so it's relevant no matter where you live or what your market. The GRT also helps to prompt you with cost categories you may not know that you need, or that you forgot about.

In addition, this resource helps you judge where in the spectrum of low to high end your costs might fall. 

Created by an award-winning documentary filmmaker with 30+ years of producing experience, the Going Rates Table provides everything needed to determine your production costs in relation to industry standard rates.

This is a must-have budgeting companion that will save you tons of time and will help you create a professional and accurate budget.

Includes a handy video tutorial showing you how to get the most out of the Going Rates Table.

Get this item at a reduced rate when purchased as part of the Documentary Budget Template Pack (Bundle).




What's Inside

    1. Intro & Instructions

    2. VIDEO TUTORIAL: How To Use The Going Rates Table (3:40)

    3. THE 2025 GOING RATES TABLE DOWNLOAD (PDF)

    1. Quick Survey

    2. Additional Budgeting Resources

About this course

  • Video Walk-Through
  • Covers all the expenses involved in a documentary production
  • Downloadable & Detailed Pricing Table (PDF)

"Time-saver!"

by Anita Sugimura/Documentary Filmmaker

"Such a time-saver! I cannot tell you how exhausting it can be to research each line item...it takes days...this is making my life and my new project so much easier. Minimizing the stress factor is a huge plus!"

2025 Going Rates Table Created By:

Documentary Producer-Director Jilann Spitzmiller

Jilann Spitzmiller is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on the BBC, Sundance Channel, Starz/Encore, Aljazeera, PBS, Canal+ and many other channels worldwide.

Spitzmiller is a 3-time recipient of ITVS funding and has twice received Sundance Institute funding. She has been a Sundance Institute fellow and a mentor at NALIP's Producer's Lab, as well as a guest panelist and teacher at many festivals and workshops. Her work has won more than 20 awards and has been shown around the globe.

She is co-founder of DocuMentors and is deeply committed to helping filmmakers world-wide have the most impact that they can by telling their best story possible.

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