Jon Reiss on BYODocs with Ondi Timoner
Had a great time with Ondi Timoner today filming for her BYODocs Show – seen here! We spoke a little about Think Outside the Box Office – but mostly about my docs Bomb It, Bomb It 2, Better Living Through Circuitry and even going back to Survival Research Laboratories and Target Video. Let me know […]
The BOMB IT 2 DVD is here!
This week marks the official release of the BOMB IT 2 DVD. To purchase, visit our BOMB IT 2 website. Don’t forget to check out this exclusive webisode with BOMB IT 2 artist Darbotz, where he explains his artistic process and the story behind the Squid Monster character featured in his work. Thank you for […]
Countdown to the DVD Release of BOMB IT 2!
As we count down to the DVD release of BOMB IT 2 on 11/5, check out this exclusive webisode with featured artist NUNCA. Learn about his art, Brazilian culture, and family influence in his work.
How I Made a Feature Film Right Out of Film School (Guest Post)
I’m Jaymes Camery and I just wrapped production on my first feature film, Guys and Girls Can’t Be Friends. I graduated from California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in Film Directing in May 2013. I grew up in Virginia and have always had a special affinity for stories that take place in the South. […]
A Little About Happiness In Slavery
Early in my career I avoided music videos like the plague, they just seemed like commercials for music. Fortunately – this led me to one of my favorite collaborations on Happiness in Slavery – since Trent Reznor was looking for filmmakers who had never done a music video before. He didn’t want anyone polluted by […]
BOMB IT 2 VOD Release on iTunes!
What a way to start off the day. Check us out on the front page of iTunes, right next to GI JOE! Help us stay there: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/bomb-it-2/id656273050
Theatrical is Dead – Long Live Theatrical: Events, Experiences, Scarcity & The Age of Abundance
Part 3 of How to Make Money in the Age of Abundance By Jon Reiss Theatrical is Dead Long Live Theatrical. The holy grail of a theatrical release still rings as a delusion for many. Fighting words still for untold thousands of filmmakers. Who doesn’t want their name in lights – long lines around the […]
Ask Not What Your Audience Can Do For You – But What You Can Do For Your Audience
Part 2 of How to Make Money in the Age of Abundance When I wrote the first post in this series, I thought this would only be a two-parter, but I decided to expand this to a 4-part series because of a little voice in my head that said I needed to talk about audience engagement more. […]
Monetizing in the Age of Abundance Part 1: The Age of Abundance
By Jon Reiss I have been giving a number of presentations on Artistic Entrepreneurship over the past year that I refined for the recentSFFS A2E Workshop and most recently presented a version of in this spring’s IFP Filmmaker Labs. In this presentation I have reformulated my approach to the challenges that filmmakers face in our current age […]
BOMB IT 2 Featured Artist: Victor Ash (Interview)
BOMB IT 2 Artist Victor Ash just might embody artistic evolution. Bursting onto the graffiti scene in the early 1980s, he went by Ash2 and Saho, and ran with the popular Parisian crew, BBC. He has since expanded his style, focusing on large- scale murals involving themes of human nature and perception. We caught up with […]