TOTBO Tip of the Day 3 Know Your Goals
I cannot stress this enough. I cannot repeat this enough. There are multiple goals that you can strive for in the release of your film. You must prioritize what is most important to you. I categorize the goals for the distribution and marketing of your film into the following five (with a sub goal number […]
Call for Entries: 2nd Annual Film Festival for Social & Environmental Change
Fans Of Film 2nd annual film festival for change starting Nov/01/2010 ending Nov/01/2010. This is a festival to distribution event. ORGANIZERS: Michael Palombo and Pattie Greer Fans Of Film wants to see the best and get 8 winning films in “documentary/narrative social and environmental films for change” that filmmakers can dish out, and we wanna […]
The New Film Festival Model
I posted this on Ted Hope’s blog yesterday. More Thoughts On The New Film Festival Model By JON REISS “Blood Simple” was the first film I bought a ticket for at a film festival. It was screening at the NYFF and I soon came to recognize that the films accepted to that fest were of […]
Totbo Tip 2 Every Film is Different
Each film is unique and requires its own individual distribution and marketing strategy. A comedy about stoners will not have the same audience as a documentary about Aids orphans in Tanzania. Similarly each filmmaker has a different set of goals, needs, and resources. While the studio one size fits all model worked well for some […]
The Launch of Totbo Tips of the Day
Day 1 – The Next Chapter Many of you might know me from the book that I have written recently, Think Outside the Box Office (TOTBO for short). The primary reason that I wrote it was to share what I had learned while distributing my film Bomb It with other filmmakers so they could learn […]
Cool Tips for Community Managers
This was published on mashable.com. 10 FRESH TIPS FOR COMMUNITY MANAGERS By Jolie O’Dell 1. Get Zen Community managers have to have the unflappable calm so often seen in the mothers of multiple young children. Let the juice spill, the finger paints fly, the toddler scream. All is well. Develop your sense of humor and […]
Saskia Wilson-Brown Joins Forces with OpenIndie
This was posted by Saskia in her blog last Monday. OPEN INDIE :: YAY I have a little announcement. I’ve agreed to join forces with OpenIndie, Arin Crumley and Kieran Masterson’s awesome, open website tool for independent filmmakers. I’ll be joining the team as a consultant in the role of filmmaker outreach- something I know […]
Huffington Post Article: Thoughts on ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’
Here is my piece for the Huffington Post that ran today. OBSESSION, GENIUS, OR BOTH: THOUGHTS ON EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP By Jon Reiss If you are interested in the creative process and/or freedom of expression and/or the role of media manipulation in consumer culture (as I would suppose 99.9% of you are) then […]
A Review of the IFP Lab by Filmmaker David Soll
Published today on the IFP blog. David Soll, Director of PUPPET, takes in IFP’s Doc Labs We’re already three days into the lab, so I have a bit of catching up to do. I didn’t get to the blogging as quickly as I should have, and Danielle has good reason to be mad at me […]
2010 IFP Lab Starts this Week
This was published on indieWIRE today. IFP Names 10 Features for Documentary Lab By BASIL TSIOKOS Ten first time feature documentary filmmakers are taking part in the 2010 Independent Filmmaker Labs in New York City this week, the IFP announced today. As previously announced, the documentary lab is part of an expanded year-round program for […]