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Title:

Adventures in Distribution: Innovative Filmmakers' Risks and Rewards

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Organizer:
David Modigliani, Producer/Director CRAWFORD
Description:
Packed houses! Dashing reviews! But months later, no one’s jumped in to distribute your film? What's next? From online premieres to cross-country tours, event-based screenings to “big in Japan,” hear the pros and cons of progressive distribution models from filmmakers who jumped off cliffs and lived to tell about it.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is traditional distribution vs. progressive distribution?
  2. Does progressive distribution always mean self-distribution?
  3. How does an online strategy compliment progressive distribution?
  4. What are event-based screenings and how does content drive them?
  5. Who can you partner with?
  6. What are the financial/time tradeoffs of staying heavily involved with your distribution?
  7. How can you get ahead and plan for progressive distribution before a film's launch?
  8. What's more important - cash or eyeballs?
  9. How might one crowd-source/ crowd-finance a film in the works and let distribution drive production?
  10. What elements of progressive distribution should go into pre-production and planning?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Business, Digital Filmmaking, Distribution, Entrepreneurial, Marketing / PR / Publicity
Type:
Panel
Event:
Film 2010
David Modigliani
on 17/8/09
ORGANIZER BIO: Texas Monthly recently named David Modigliani "one of the next great Texas directors." His 2008 SXSW Spotlight Premiere documentary, CRAWFORD, played at 38 festivals, including SXSW, winning multiple awards. CRAWFORD made the first online premiere in history on hulu.com. Modigliani recently co-produced 2009 SXSW film, TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP. His doc-in-progress, 61 BULLETS was selected for IFP's Independent Film Week in September. He was a panelist on alternative publicity and progressive distribution at SXSW last year.
David Modigliani
on 17/8/09
FULL PANEL DESCRIPTION: Packed houses! Dashing reviews! But months later, no one’s jumped in to distribute your film? Hundreds of brilliant films sputter into obscurity every year, but some filmmakers dig deep and find innovative ways to connect with their audiences. From online premieres to cross-country tours, event-based screenings to “big in Japan,” hear the pros and cons of progressive distribution models from filmmakers who jumped off cliffs and lived to tell about it.
David Modigliani
on 17/8/09
I'm excited about this panel. There's tons of talk about progressive distribution, but getting real facts and real stories from the filmmakers who've done it -- as opposed to theoretical abstractions -- is what will truly serve new and nascent projects and filmmakers. Hearing from other filmmakers made all the difference for me last go round. I have a fun group lined up. Hope you'll vote for the panel and join us.
Melissa Pierce
on 30/8/09
Would love to see what other filmmakers are doing differently now that we have so many avenues to reach an audience (and the people formerly known as the audience) My entire film "Life In Perpetual Beta" has been financed/filmed/ through crowdsourcing. It would be great to hear someone who actually knows what they are doing talk about this.
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on 3/11/09
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on 13/11/09
So looking forward to this..
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