I posted a bit article about the self-distribution efforts of John Sayles and Maggie Renzi with their newest film Honeydripper. The New York Times has followed up and given an in-depth picture of the plan. From where I sit, the plan looks like they put a lot of thought into how to find an audience [...]

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A while back I posted a brief about the Ann Arbor Film Festival losing their state funding due to accusations that the festival was screening pornographic work. The state of Michigan took action after prompting by an essay out of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, revoking the festival’s cultural arts money. One of the [...]

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A while back I posted a brief about the Ann Arbor Film Festival losing their state funding due to accusations that the festival was screening pornographic work. The state of Michigan took action after prompting by an essay out of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, revoking the festival’s cultural arts money. One of the [...]

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A while back I posted a brief about the Ann Arbor Film Festival losing their state funding due to accusations that the festival was screening pornographic work. The state of Michigan took action after prompting by an essay out of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, revoking the festival’s cultural arts money. One of the [...]

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Thanks to The Austin Chronicle for pointing to this video about the writer’s strike. I’m unclear as to what we, non-union writers, can do to support the strikers. Unlike the NYC permitting issue where there were some clear outcomes, all comments I have heard say that the multi-nationals are diverse enough to stand firm until [...]

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NEHST Studios will be holding in Teaneck, New Jersey, on Nov. 3rd. NEHST Studios is actively looking to fill up its large slate of projects to shoot within the next two/three years, and Larry Meistrich (Oscar winning producer of Sling Blade, You Can Count on Me, Belly and Croupier) will be holding a pitch session [...]

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In light of recent discussions about self-distribution, I wanted to post in about New Day Films and let filmmakers know a little about the alternative business model. It’s self-distribution but within a structure, and with the advice of other independent documentary filmmakers. There are about 100 filmmakers involved and it has been in business for [...]

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I promise more original content soon, but I want to make sure to keep you up on all that is going on out there! Today’s New York Times reports on Amazon’s response to recent murmurings by Steve Jobs (and consumers!) to sell music  without crazy DRM to keep users from playing their legitimately purchased tunes [...]

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I read in passing some posts about YouTube sharing ad revenue with its more popular content producers. I glossed over it because it seemed like old news to me. If creators want earn revenue from their video posts, post on Revver. It really works and the site just needs to reach a tipping point with [...]

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At long last, another entry from me! The last few weeks have been very interesting ones for me.  And I’ve been thinking about distribution through a different lens.  As I mentioned before, this business is difficult for everybody.  There are thousands and thousands of films released every year and yet there is not an endless [...]

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