Film Directing and Film Making Tips for the Independent Filmmaker

This information is from Jon Reiss about the Los Angeles Film Festival’s “Seize the Power: A Marketing and (DIY)stribution Symposium.” “Two weeks ago I wrote a guest post on Ted Hope’s Truly Free Film blog about the need to educate filmmakers on distribution and marketing their films.  This weekend the Los Angeles Film Festival is [...]

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This article was written by Carol Abedania. “Effective and logical media planning on what medium will be used for film production is important. Use posters as a media planning tool for your movie. There are several considerations you need to consider when using posters to achieve desired results. These are mainly focused on the target [...]

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This article was written by Jason Brubaker. “If you’re one of the many independent feature filmmakers who is trying to navigate the ever changing world of digital self distribution (so you can still make a living by making independent movies). . . I have an AWESOME solution for you. And No. I’m not talking about [...]

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This press release was written for Mobilefilmworks. “Mobile entertainment firm Mobilefilmworks, Inc. debuts today its beta service that makes instant streaming of full-length feature movies available on-demand to millions of mobile phone users. Mobilefilmworks™ is now available via the mobile web on all four major U.S. carriers and initially across 30 different handset devices, including [...]

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This article was written by Marke Andrews. “In their rush to find an online audience, filmmakers can make some bad choices, a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer says. Harris Tulchin, co-author with colleagues Gunnar Erickson and Mark Halloran of The Independent Film Producer’s Survival Guide (Schirmer Trade Books), said makers of films and videos can be [...]

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This article was written by Mark Hefflinger. “Online DVD rental service Netflix (NASD: NFLX) on Monday announced deals with a number of independent film distributors that will increase the size of its library available for instant streaming to its subscribers. The new deals with The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories [...]

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This article was written by Angelo Bell. That question has come up a lot lately on Twitter among indie filmmakers enduring the plight of self distribution. I decided to do some quick research on the matter and figure out for myself how one might go about getting their film on iTunes. I know the filmmakers [...]

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This article was written by Kevin Kangas. “A lot of filmmakers think that when they’re done their filmic masterpiece the festivals will beg to play it, the distributors will instantly send offers, and peace will fall over the planet. But this is not the case. I got lucky with my first film, “Hunting Humans”. I [...]

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This article was written by Arya Pont. “A newly released movie is pirated and spread around on torrent websites. Surely the producers must be furious? Not so much this time. While the typical Hollywood studio frowns on movies being shared on BitTorrent, it’s a different story for independent filmmakers. Producer-writer-director Jamin Winans and fellow producer [...]

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This article was written by Jerome Courshon. “This has become a common topic of conversation in the world of distribution for Directors and Producers. There are several reasons for this, among them: a) More filmmakers are doing this and getting press, such as the “Four Eyed Monsters” team, as well as John Sayles with his [...]

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