Tyler Weaver Guest Post: HOW TO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME & STAY SANE
I’m very excited about our inaugural guest post which I plan to be a weekly occurance. Today’s guest post is from Tyler Weaver who I had the great pleasure of meeting this summer when I was on a baseball road trip with my son. He’s a filmmaker and storyteller who is currently working on a […]
Back to NYC: OVC and Raindance
Headed back to NY today – after a few days back in LA. First up tomorrow I will be at the Open Video Conference on a panel: “Future of Exhibition: Opening the Box Office” Friday, 3-3:45PM. This panel will look at how producers are bypassing traditional gatekeepers to reach out to their audience while exploring […]
Lab Reflection, Cage Match Today and Photo Cine Expo this Saturday
This week I’ve been mentoring at the IFP lab – 10 narrative and 10 doc projects all still in post. As you might know this is a first of its kind completion distribution and marketing lab to integrate these previously separate processes which I have been involved with since the spring. The lab continues through […]
Two New Initiatives on Jonreiss.com/blog
I wanted to tell you about a few initiatives that I am working on this fall.
The first concerns the Producer of Marketing and Distribution or PMD, which is a new crew position that I proposed in TOTBO. There has been a fair amount of excitement and discussion around this concept on the Internet of late. My intention is for my blog and the TOTBO Facebook page to be a repository of information, clarification and best practices for PMDs. The second initiative is an expansion of TOTBO to encompass all art forms.
Live Events September-December
Independent Film Week Sept 19-24 New York City Continuing my involvement and work transforming IFPs Independent Film Labs into a year long completion, marketing and distribution lab I will be at Independent Film Week in New York. Live Event: September 24th Cage Match -” Am I a Filmmaker or a Brand?” 4:30 at Haft Auditorium […]
Bomb It 2 on Babelgum To Watch List for Fast Company Magazine
Babelgum Actually — gasps — Pays for Users to Create Videos By PATRICK J. SAUER So far as I know, Babelgum is the only company paying Web-video creators money up front,” says chief revenue officer Douglas Dicconson. And not for low-brow stuff, but ambitious professional works such as British documentarian Daniel Edelstyn’s Vodka Empire, the […]
Jon Reiss to Speak at UFVA Conference August 11th, 12th
This month I will be appearing at the University Film and Video Conference which is being held at Champlain College in Burlington VT. Both presentations will center around the core Think Outside the Box Office (TOTBO) principles with an emphasis on how and why to teach this material to film students. I have a solo […]
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 […]