Dive into the archives.
- Thom Powers on the success of Stranger Than Fiction
A video made for THE MAIN EVENT: Finding YOUR Audience, a panel I moderated at SXSW. Thom Powers, founder of the fantastic NYC doc series Stranger Than Fiction and doc programmer for TIFF, shares a few tips with filmmakers hoping to capture some of STF’s success for their own releases.
Thom Powers on making a doc screening a success from Laure X on Vimeo.… [more]
- Think Outside: Jon Reiss tells you how to release a film today
Think Outside The Box (Office): The Ultimate Guide to Film Distribution and Marketing in the Digital Era is the new book from filmmaker/author Jon Reiss (not yet available at Amazon.com). For readers of this site, the book is probably both utterly essential and potentially old news. It provides a step-by-step guide to creating a strategy for your film in the digital age, and how to exploit different platforms and techniques to reach an audience.
I haven’t yet read the book but overall, if you care considering a DIY strategy for your film release, this looks like a fantastic… [more]
- CineGoGo is a different kind of “Festival Direct”
CineGoGo explains how they take films from the festival circuit and distribute them to the nontheatrical/semitheatrical market on HD… [more]
- Ted Hope for the future
Ted Hope Art House Convergence Closing Remarks from joe zina on Vimeo.
Indiewire has posted Ted Hope’s keynote address for the Arthouse Convergence, a conference for indie exhibitors ‘and friends’ in Salt Lake City this week. Kind of like one of those relaxation exercises where the speaker keeps repeating “listen to the sound of my voice”, this speech will take you from “the Hell of Now” to a brighter– well, somewhat brighter– place… [more]
- A movie or a measure
Over at Digital Cinema Report, IndiePix prez Bob Alexander has a column about the “New Era for Independent Film.” Among his points:
- Over the last 3 months, the indie distribution business has seen some major shifts, either towards elimination of specialty divisions at studios (Warner Independent, New Line, Picturehouse); financial instability (THINKFilm); or consolidation of cable markets for indie film (Sundance @ Cablevision).
- With the expenses of theatrical, it will be too costly to put indie films in theatres.
- Traditional indie distributors don’t have a plan for this end-of-theatrical marketplace.
- The new era will allow
- Cost-benefit protections
The folks over at TechDirt responded today to the discussion at Cato Unbound regarding copywrite that I discussed earlier. In their incredulous reaction to the idea that copyright is still viable (or at least to the article by Doug Lichtman, a law professor at UCLA on the subject), they offer their own “helpful hints” for saving the movie business.What’s interesting about these suggestions is that they suggest that even the savviest tech types are still under the impression that theatrical revenues are either particularly significant for most releases or that… [more]
