NEW BOOK LAUNCH! AND IT’S FREE!
I am super excited to announce the publication of a new book written by myself, Sheri Candler and The Film Collaborative titled Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul! I am also super excited to tell you that you can download the PDFor ePub version for free or by tomorrow you can order the paperback […]
10 Ways in Which I Would Release Bomb It Today
Chris Horton asked me to write this post for the new Artist Services website that Sundance has set up. However, many filmmakers don’t have access to that site, and so I am posting it here on my blog for anyone to be able to read. Here is the post: In 2005 I started a documentary […]
Guest Post: Joke and Biagio on Self Distribution for Dying to Do Letterman
Today’s guest post is from Joke and Biagio who are doing an amazing job with their Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the distribution of their film Dying to do Lettermen. Check out their kickstarter page – they’re already raised $47,000. In it they talk about why they are releasing their film themselves (plan […]
Heading to the UK Next Week and Upcoming Releases
The first segment of the IFP Filmmaker Labs were very fun and exciting this year. A great group of docs and narrative. Next week I will be in the UK. First doing a one day TOTBO workshop at the Edinburgh Film Festival on June 22nd then I’ll be doing a Keynote for Short Sighted presented […]
Think Outside the Box Office Workshop
Guest Post: Fulfilment Options from Breakthrough Distribution
First off – the next Totbo workshop is in Vancouver in just 2 weeks: February 26 and 27th being organized by DOC BC with support from the NFB and British Columbia Film. If you are in the Vancouver area – I hope to see you there! Today’s guest post is from Jeff Rosen from […]
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 […]
Screen Hub’s Lyn Norfor on Jon Reiss and Thinking Outside of the Box Office!
Jon Reiss: Thinking Outside the Box Office by: Lyn Norfor Screen Hub Thursday 15 July, 2010 Jon Reiss, independent filmmaker and proselyte, wrote Thinking Outside the Box Office, and is running a series of events around Australia, including MIFF. Lyn Norfor was reminded of the 50% rule – “50% of the time and resources to make […]
MAKING SENSE OF DISTRIBUTION PANELS – POST LAFF’s SEIZE THE POWER SYMPOSIUM
The Film Collaborative was recently on a panel at the Los Angeles Film Festival as part of their SEIZE THE POWER SYMPOSIUM which focused on DIY & DIGITAL Distribution. This was the description of the panel we were on and that I moderated and will discuss below: NEW DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION INITIATIVES Leading digital distribution executives […]