Instagram Facebook Twitter

Month: March 2010

Think Outside the Box Office Newest Interview

Published in The Film Panel Notetaker. One-On-One Q&A with Jon Reiss By ERIN SCHERER Part 1 of 2 Perhaps it was inevitable that Jon Reiss would be the one to write a book on self-distribution. Reiss (pronounced “Reese”) began his career with Target Video in the 1980s, a group that taped performances of important punk […]

Mynette Louie and Tze Chun on Why They Turned Down 8 Distribution Offers

This was published on Ted Hope’s Truly Free Film today. CHILDREN OF INVENTION: Why They Turned Down 8 Distribution Offers Today we have a guest post from Mynette Louie and Tze Chun, the producer director team behind CHILDREN OF INVENTION. The film opens this weekend in New York and their whole journey through DIY/DIWO distribution […]

Another TOTBO Review by a Filmmaker

Distribution Days By RORY DELANEY, producer/director of Toxic Soup This week I’ve been reading Jon Reiss’ book Think Outside the Box Office, which producer and friend Sergei Krasikau recommended to me. Sergei and I are trying to come up with an innovative marketing and distribution plan for our documentary “Toxic Soup,” which was named an […]

Review from Filmmaker Using TOTBO

What I Learned – Distribution, Part 2 By NINA FRORIEP, producer/director of Abraham’s Children In the book “Think Outside the Box Office” by John Reiss is an entire section I have been ignoring: ”Sanity and the Future”. The first chapter is: “Keeping Sane”. Last night I took that chapter to bed with me and as […]

‘Children of Invention’ and ‘White on Rice’ DVD Giveaway Contest

DVD GIVEAWAY CONTEST to celebrate CHILDREN OF INVENTION and WHITE ON RICE March 12 premiere in NYC. CHILDREN OF INVENTION premieres in L.A. on 3/12 as well. The contest will present one trivia question per day through 3/12, the day of the premiere. There are 8 questions in all — 4 about COI, 4 about […]

thisMoment’s New Distributed Engagement Channel(TM) Enables ‘KICK-ASS’ Community to Connect Across Multiple Social Websites

This was published on itnewsonline.com on March 2. Lionsgate Leveraging thisMoment’s Real-Time Platform to Launch First Connected, Interactive Brand Channel Across YouTube, Facebook and MySpace for Upcoming Feature Film, ‘KICK-ASS’ By PRNEWSWIRE thisMoment, a company focused on creating engaging experiences at the point where social media, mobile devices, and the real-time Web collide, today announced […]

Vice Squad Censoring Murals in L.A.?

This was published on bedlammagazine.com. By JONATHAN JERALD Emmeric James Konrad, longtime anchor of the downtown L.A. arts scene, was told late last week by the proprietors of a downtown bar that they had been ordered by a vice officer to remove the mural he painted on their windows on Spring St. at 5th. According […]