Film Independent's Fast Track project market
Sometimes I feel like a traveling salesman, going from festival to festival selling my finished films, and from market to market pitching my new projects. I recently participated in my ninth project market on the “filmmaker” side, and I’ve done four of them on …
My first feature, New Low, was released about a month ago digitally and on DVD. You’re about to get insightful analysis on the success of our distribution model by someone who got a D in Microeconomics. If this were the old Back to the Future ride at Universal Studios, Doc …
Robert Kraft of Fox Music analyzes the collapse of the soundtrack business by comparing the soundtrack sales of Titanic and Avatar.
From the 2011 Independent Filmmaker Conference.
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I’m hearing a lot of talk about how independent filmmakers need to be paid for their work, whether it’s regarding distribution deals, online piracy, or their tip percentage at Fuddruckers.
Well, as a young filmmaker, let me give it to you straight from the horse’s mouth (which is currently the only …
Learn how to navigate the vast array of funding options for non-fiction, and avoid the pitfalls, in this intimate masterclass with sales agent Louise Rosen.
Louise Rosen, Managing Director, Louise Rosen LTD
Louise Rosen is a Media Executive with over 25 years …
With the conclusion of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, many sales agents, distributors and mediamakers breathed a collective sigh of relief that more than twenty six deals were negotiated prior to and during the ten day event with some deals about to close in the festival’s aftermath. However, one can …
When writers submit their scripts into the marketplace, they often encounter producers who cannot afford to purchase the rights. The producer—frequently independent and undercapitalized—may instead offer to “option” the script by paying the writer a sum of money for the exclusive right to take the script “off the market” for …
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