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Strategy to Know: How "Sound City" Broke the Windowing Barrier

Strategy to Know: How "Sound City" Broke the Windowing Barrier
Wednesday, September 18th, 2013   2:00PM - 3:00PM
Bruno Walter Auditorium - 111 Amsterdam Avenue

Dave Grohl’s debut film, "Sound City", was one of the best received docs  at this year’s Sundance and SXSW Film Festivals. It’s also one of the better self-distribution case studies of the year—the film has topped the iTunes charts since debuting. How did they do it? And if they had the chance, would they do it again, or would they sell it to a distributor? Find out as Jim Rota and John Ramsay, the film’s producers, sit with Sundance’s Chris Horton to discuss.

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Moderator

Chris Horton
, Sundance Institute

Sundance Film Festival

Panelists

John Ramsay
Exec Producer, Therapy Content

In 2005 John formed Therapy Studios, a post-production studio in West Los Angeles. Today he leads feature-film production as Cofounder and Executive Producer of Therapy Content where he recently produced the studio’s second feature film, Sound City, in association with Roswell Films, directed by Dave Grohl, and released in 2013.

Jim Rota
Producer, Roswell Films

Rota, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and John Ramsay of Therapy Content, produced the documentary Sound City that was an official selection in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

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