IFFR, Tiger Release, and the Trend of Festival as Distributor

IFFR

I’m so thrilled to be participating in two IFFR events this year! For those of you attending, I hope we run into each other. On the morning of Monday, the 26th, I’ll be serving on a distribution panel called Get Your Film Out There! (moderated by Amy Dotson). That afternoon, I’ll be participating in an […]

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 […]

Free-to-share documentary highlights alternative distribution methods for the digital age

British production company VODO utilizes an alternative distribution strategy using filesharing sites and free-to-share networks.  The strategy immediately engages a worldwide audience. From ScreenDaily.com: 100,000 downloads for first VODO release 19 October, 2009 | By Sarah Cooper Ivo Gormley’s documentary Us Now has achieved 100,000 downloads in its first five days of operation, through its […]

Tribeca Panel This Tuesday

Tribeca Talks: Industry Tuesday, April 28th at 2pm School of Visual Art Theater 2 Tools of the Trade: Alternative Distribution, Marketing 2.0, and Beyond “Every filmmaker is looking for an audience. With the emergence of innovative and widely successful strategies such as marketing on Facebook or digitally distributing on YouTube, the old studio-driven business model […]

Tribeca Film Festival Panel Discussion-

Coming up soon is the Tribeca Talks- Tools of the Trade: Alternative Distribution, Marketing 2.0, and Beyond. There is a fantastic panel including Geoff Gilmore of Tribeca Enterprises, Sara Pollack of YouTube, Cynthia Swartz of 42West, Ryan Werner of Independent Film Channel, Adam Yauch of Oscilloscope, Steven Zeitchik who is the moderator of The Hollywood […]