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Distribution Transparency: Four Filmmakers Give Up the Gold Pt 2
Wednesday’s post looked at Neil Berkeley and Judy Chaikin as two filmmakers who wanted to create a theatrical release for their films to boost visibility, increase ancillary value and learn for...
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Off to Romania!
Tonight I’ll be heading off to Romania as an “expert” for the American Film Showcase. The AFS is a cultural exchange organization that uses film education across the world as a means to opening a...
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American Film Showcase Trip to Romania
Earlier this month I was lucky enough to travel to Romania with the American Film Showcase which is a collaboration between the American State Department and USC which bring mainly documentary...
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Distribution Case Study –“Finding Hillywood”
Written by Leah Warshawski (Producer/Director) / Introduction by Jon Reiss I recently wrote a two part article featuring four documentary filmmakers who pursued hybrid releases with their films and...
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Romania Interviews
I just got the links to the TV and Radio interviews that I did while in Romania. We talked a lot about distribution and marketing within the film industry, and how that relates to all art forms –...
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What the F is a PMD and Why Do We Need One?
Back in 2010, two weeks before I went to print on Think Outside the Box Office, I coined a new crew position: the Producer ofMarketing and Distribution. This concept/position has taken off in...
View ArticleHeading to Sheffield International Doc Fest and Edinburgh International Film...
I’m excited to be heading to the UK for the Sheffield International Doc Fest and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In Sheffield I’ll be taking meetings with a number of international...
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Artist, Filmmaker, & Renowned Disney Producer Don Hahn Comes to Cal Arts
Hard to believe we are already halfway through the first month of 2017! So much has already happened this year. I just got back from Winnipeg where it was below -10 degrees. TALK ABOUT FREEZING....
View ArticleDocumentary Magazine Article – Documentary Distribution in Turbulent Times
During IDA’s Getting Real 2016 conference in September, Susan Margolin and I hosted a two part panel on the state of documentary distribution. I conducted a series of case studies with Nanfu Wang,...
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Five Reasons Why “Whose Streets” is Essential Viewing
While at the Sundance Film Festival this past week I had the fortune to to see the premiere of “Whose Streets” by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis – produced by Jennifer MacArthur. It was even more...
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