The Student Law Centre B ehind every Oscar winner is a lawyer who won't even get invited to the party.
Lawyers are as crucial as clapperboards and cameras.
For without legal eyes on the contracts you might as well say 'Cut' before you've even begun. Offering the full monty of strictly legal services from copyright and licensing to financing and tax, film law incorporates it all. I could not possibly deal with the rules and regulations without legal help,' says Richard Holmes, co-writer and producer of Shooting Fish. Playing the strictly legal role of the terminator, making and breaking deals is not the courtroom drama most people associate lawyers with. But as Richard Philips of City firm Richards Butler points out, 'Lawyers are called in when it is necessary to fire the director, if it is necessary for the financier to enforce his security and trust.