Budgeting in film is not just about numbers. It is about survival. Whether you are working with €5,000 or €5 million, your ability to plan, track and adapt your budget can make or break the production. Yet most budgeting still happens on bloated spreadsheets, disconnected from the actual workflow. The result? Delays, oversights, scope creep, and worst of all: unexpected costs.
Pzaz gives you a fully integrated, real-time budgeting environment that lives alongside the rest of your production tools. That means your financials aren’t just accurate, but actionable.
Traditional budgeting tools are stuck in isolation. They don’t talk to your breakdown, your schedule, or your real-time team updates. That means you’re constantly exporting, reformatting, and second-guessing numbers.
Pzaz fixes that. It lets you build and manage your film’s budget dynamically—line-by-line, category-by-category—with real-time links to your creative and logistical workflow. You’re not just budgeting. You’re controlling your production in real-time.
Core Features
Create your budget by Element, Location, Equipment, and Cast & Team, each with smart templates.
Add units, costs, quantities, deal types (flat, day rate, deferred), and calculate totals instantly.
Make quick adjustments without breaking the whole sheet.
Track actuals vs. estimates.
Mark expenses as «Pending», «Incurred», or «Paid»—giving you full visibility on your cash flow.
Tag payments to specific departments or teams.
When you tag a prop, a location, or a character in your breakdown, it links to your budget.
As your schedule evolves, you’ll know instantly how additional days, cast changes, or scene moves affect your costs.
Assign team members to oversee budget lines or entire categories (e.g., production, wardrobe, post).
Track changes, set alerts, and define approval workflows.
Give department heads access to their relevant budgets without exposing the whole file.
Finance team, producers, and PMs can comment, flag, and annotate within the same space.
In pre-production, it gives you clarity. In production, it gives you control. In post, it gives you peace of mind. And when investors ask for a report—you’re already ready.
Tailored budget categories that reflect actual production needs, not generic business tools.
If you change your script, the effects ripple across your scheduling, casting, and budget.
Whether you want top-line planning or line-item detail, the structure is flexible.
You’re not crunching numbers in isolation anymore.
You’re budgeting inside a connected workflow — where every decision is tracked,
every dollar makes sense, and your production stays on course.
With Pzaz, budgeting stops being a disconnected chore. It becomes part
of your storytelling toolkit—giving you the confidence to say ‘yes,’ the
clarity to say ‘no,’ and the flexibility to change course without losing control.
