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Dealing With the Legal Woes: Advice from Entertainment Attorney Mark Litwak

by Justin Ferrato on April 24, 2013 in Legal

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Veteran Entertainment Attorney Mark Litwak gives valuable legal insight for every filmmaker in a new series of legal videos on IFP’s YouTube Channel and we wanted to share the a few videos to get onto your radar. Litwak has a no nonsense approach to important legal subjects such as intellectual property, copyright, contracts and the big one, distribution.

Here are three must see videos from our Legal Advice playlist on YouTube:

Importance of E&O Insurance:

Litwak briefly speaks of the importance of E&O insurance, what it is, and the significant role it plays in independent film distribution.

Film Markets:

Entertainment Attorney, Litwak describes the atmosphere at AFM (American Film Market), and gives a peek into the mind of a sales agent.

Why Festivals are Important:

Getting your film shown at a notable festival can be a thing of politics, Litwak describes the typical film festival audience and top 3 reasons why, for most independent filmmakers, festivals are important.

For the entire YouTube playlist, you can check them out here.

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Justin Ferrato

Justin is the digital media coordinator at the IFP! He spends his day working on digital initiatives, the reRun Theater, programming, social media and original video content. When he's not working he's either watching movies or working on his own movies.If movies didn't exist, he wouldn't know what to do with himself.

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