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- Free screening: RiP: A Remix Manifesto
“Mashing Up Copyright” – a screening of the new NFB film RiP: A Remix Manifesto and a discussion. Presented by the NY Film and Video Council.
WHEN: Friday May 1st; 6:30 pm
WHERE: The Cooper Union’s Wollman Auditorium, 51 Astor Place.
RSVP: 212-330-0450. The event is free… [more]
- Distribution for a New Era: Hot Docs panel action
If you’re at Hot Docs next month, you’re welcome to check out this panel on ‘The New Distribution’ I’ll be on. It’s Tuesday, May 5th at the Rogers Industry Centre and will concern:
As commissioning budgets shrink, distribution bucks the trend with acquisition and sales windfalls. Is it a sign of the times, or the ebb and flow of the market? Join our international sales and distribution powerbrokers’ status report on their theatrical, broadcast, DVD and online media ventures. Find out how they are working for filmmakers and adapting sales techniques to the new economy.
Not sure if there’s… [more]
- Points in Whose Favor? You and Charlie Wu
Taking a small meander away from distribution to look at an example of what’s going on in the ‘indies financing on the web’ scene, “You and Charlie Wu” is a microbudget project ($35K) hoping to entirely finance through Paypal donations. They have created a referral scheme in which supporters receive ‘points’ for donations made by friends, and the points are worth certain credit levels within the final crawl (sort of like selling off your special thanks section, I guess).
Anyway, thus far they are at 5% with this plan, so perhaps it’s not quite sure-fire- but it… [more]
- Digital Docs- upcoming workshop & networking event
I’ll be moderating a panel organized by NY Women in Film called “Digital Docs: Case Studies of Distributing Documentaries Online”. It’s on April 27 at 6:30 PM at NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, 20 Cooper Square. Panelists are Greta Schiller, Aaron Woolf, Lilibet Foster and Mark Lipsky.
We’ll definitely be talking about reaching audiences and how to maximize the potential of the internet without hurting (and ideally while complementing) your DVD, television, and screening revenues. What advice do you have for documentary filmmakers putting films online? Any words of caution?… [more]
