Submitted by FilmTiki.

The Web offers many powerful opportunities for filmmakers around the world to connect with their audiences, but it can be a difficult maze to navigate without understanding how to efficiently capitalise on the tools available.

This FilmTiki workshop is based on a two-hour introduction followed by a workshop to be held by Iris Lamprecht and Wolfgang Gumpelmaier in Vienna on 9 April 2010 and aims to provide filmmakers with the appropriate Social Media marketing tools.

Read more at Film Tiki.

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This article was written by Adam Mazo.

Social media is the worst form of media, besides all those others. Apologies to Winston Churchill for repurposing his famous quote on democracy. Isn’t that what we often do with social media, repurpose quotes and video (or sometimes just copy and paste)?

For independent filmmakers social media can be incredibly powerful and maybe Churchill would agree: democratizing. A filmmaker can engage with people via social media from the moment a project is conceived, share video throughout the process, find new stories to document and share with that same audience, and generate support for a film.

Read the rest of this article from Valley Advocate.

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This article was written by Tom Smith.

“On Friday 13th, sometime before 9PM, Graham Linehan had had a great idea he called Bad Movie Club. I heard about it from Phil Jupitus’ twitterings. I’d hastily followed him before I realised it was THE Phil Jupitus, dur!

The idea was brilliant-ish and was for everyone to get hold of and watch a really bad movie called The Happening (trust me it is really bloody awful) and after all hitting PLAY at 9PM everyone would be free to use the “#badmovieclub” hashtag whilst twittering.”

Read the rest of this article from The Other Blog.

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This article was written by Balázs Lóth.

This article was written for Best Social Media Marketing Tips.

“Since the birth of the moving picture, film has played an important role in the way people experience culture worldwide. This is apparent at the 400 film festivals which take place around the globe each year. These events give talented artists a venue to promote their work in front of a qualified, interested audience.

Like any dynamic art form, film is forever changing. New digital media have placed unknown independent artists on the same playing field as their more established, commercially-backed counterparts. Moreover, as access to cyberspace has become more universal, reaching the right audience has never been so easy.’

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This article was written by Patty Fantasia.

“Being fairly new to the filmmaking scene and living in Las Vegas, as opposed to L.A. or New York, I must say that I find social media to be an effective and inexpensive networking tool.  I launched Filmmakers Notebook in July and with the exception of conferences and seminars I attended in Los Angeles and the people I’ve become acquainted with locally, I really didn’t know anyone in the film world.

When you’re starting out,  this severely limits your ability to find colleagues to collaborate or share ideas with.  I’ve found that social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook , have helped to fill this gap.”

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The Ten Commandments of Filmmaking
How to Work (and Survive) in the
Film and Television Industry
by Peter D. Marshall

Do you have a favorite filmmaking or movie quote? Good…because I would like your help!

On March 18, 2009, I started to ask everyone who followed me on Twitter to send me their favorite filmmaking or movie quote. My goal was to create a PDF ebook of all these fabulous 2009 quotes and give it away on Twitter and my blog starting Friday, January 1, 2010.

So far I have received 456 quotes from over 420 Twitterer’s! That is truly amazing.

Now I’m asking you for some help. I would like to get up to 500 film quotes by midnight December 31 if I can.

Impossible you say!

Not if we all use the power of Social Media to spread the word. So, if you have some quotes you want to share, please send them to me. Also, please retweet this post and let all your friends now about it as well.

No matter what, I will be releasing this ebook (34 pages so far) on Friday, January 1 for all the filmmakers and movie buffs out there in the Twitterverse!!!

Thanks.

Peter

http://twitter.com/bcfilmmaker

pdm@actioncutprint.com

“A race is underway to turn social networking into an engaging 10-foot experience–one that we interact with via TVs. The technology has been in place for years. However, the price of Internet-connected HDTVs was, until recently, out of reach for most. No longer.

High-definition TVs were among the top sellers on Black Friday, according to ShopperTrak RCT Corp. And just in time, the major social networks are racing to make the entire experience more interactive via number of channels–not just cable TV, but gaming consoles too.”

Read this article from Forbes.

The Ten Commandments of Filmmaking
How to Work (and Survive) in the
Film and Television Industry
by Peter D. Marshall

“Can the so-called Twitter effect boost a movie’s box-office performance faster than any traditional form of word-of-mouth? Not yet, say many top movie marketers and researchers, but the social networking platform’s impact on a studio’s media mix and campaign management has already taken shape.”

Read this article from Advertising Age.

The Ten Commandments of Filmmaking
How to Work (and Survive) in the
Film and Television Industry
by Peter D. Marshall

“Twitter is so hot right now, you guys. It’s so hot it influences things totally unrelated to Twitter, like the Nikon Festival—a digital film fest that challenges micro-auteurs to create 140-seconds-or-less digital videos. Obviously, Ashton Kutcher is involved.”

Read this article from Gizmodo.

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