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Indie Film Capitalsim #7

What does it take to get your film noticed when you don't have the money to spend on advertising? PRESS! Let's face it, if people don't know about your film, how will you make money on it? Getting press for my projects has always been one of the key factors in ...

The Crowd

As some of you know, I recently completed a successful funding campaign using Kickstarter.com to raise the initial capital needed to get my new film, Jens Pulver | Driven, an intimate documentary about legendary UFC Champion Jens Pulver, off the ground. The end result of the campaign was $27,210 pledged, my ...

Event Screenings & Alternate Releasing

Ordinarily, I don't like speculative posts. At times I find them even counter-productive, because they can often wind people up with pie-in-the-sky "what-ifs," but provide no real actionable items. So that's not my intent here. Here I just wanted to throw out some ideas for viewing/releasing a film, and see ...

Providing Your Actors with External Stimuli

Note: This post was inspired by my own complaints that the DIY movement seemed to spend very little time on craft, as opposed to distribution. So I decided to put my money where my mouth was and try to start some conversations on craft. Working with actors is probably my favorite ...

Skip Perfection & Launch Early

Earlier this week I read a tip on The 99 Percent site, titled, The Beta Principle: Skip Perfection & Launch Early - the post made a strong argument for start-ups to avoid the drag of over-refining and take to advantage of early user-feedback. But, when reading, I couldn't help but ...

PARK CITY: Exploring the Solutions, Part 3

SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah pick up with Ted Hope where he left off in the last episode to further explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers. He is joined by Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and new interviews with Sultan Sharrief (Bilal's Stand), Lance ...

do something different

I was going through my unread Instapaper list tonight - cleaning things up, watching videos I had saved for later, etc - and I came across a post by Ted Hope, from his blog, Truly Free Film, titled: 50* Ways You Can Do Something Different On This Production. There were a ...

LOST CHILDREN TRANSMEDIA PLAN

In this video, I talk about the transmedia effort for the film Coraline. Here's the panel I attended where the creators talk about what they did: SUNDANCE TRANSMEDIA PANEL. In this video, I also talk about the main points of THE LOST CHILDREN plan. They are: Add new story-related content to our ...

PARK CITY: Exploring the Solutions, Part 2

SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Dan Mirvish, Brian Newman, Ira Deutchman and Ted Hope to further explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring a proposal for a new relationship between filmmakers and festivals as outlined by Peter Baxter at the 2010 ...

PARK CITY: Exploring the Solutions, Part 1

SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.

THE LOST CHILDREN TRANSMEDIA EFFORT

I pretty much say everything in the video, so I won't repeat it here. But I wanted to provide a couple of the links I talk about in the video: THE LOST CHILDREN website and THE LOST CHILDREN Transmedia Kickstarter Campaign If this stuff is useful to you as a filmmaker, you might ...

PARK CITY: Seeking the Answers, Part 2

SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah move away from identifying the questions toward some possible answers that may, in fact, lead to the solutions we seek. Insights from Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards), Jon Reiss and Brian Newman are fleshed out with more thoughts from the pre-Filmmaker Summit roundtable.

PARK CITY: Seeking the Answers, Part 1

SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah move away from identifying the questions toward some possible answers that may, in fact, lead to the solutions we seek. Insights from Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards), Habib Azar (Armless), Dan Mirvish, and Brian Newman are fleshed out with more thoughts from the ...

PARK CITY: Discovering the Questions

Filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah of Sabi Pictures arrive at Park City with an intent to define the questions most relevant to independent distribution options. Insights from Brian Newman, Dan Mirvish, Jon Reiss and Ira Deutchman open a path toward discovering some real solutions. Part of an on-going series ...

PARK CITY: AN OPEN DISCUSSION

Sabi Pictures documents an open discussion between Lance Weiler, Peter Baxter, Saskia Wilson-Brown, Brian Newman and Paul Rachman in preparation for the upcoming Filmmaker Summit in Park City.

Assembling a Distribution Team

The Filmmaker Summit is just two days away tomorrow - the event is a collective effort of the teams behind the Workbook Project, Open Video Alliance and Slamdance. I've been spending some of my free-time keeping up with the discussions on WBP, many of which dealing with festivals, distribution methods, ...

Change is good

In advance of the Filmmaker Summit at Slamdance this weekend, Zak Forsman put forth some questions to this community, and asked that we consider doing a video blog. One question he asked in particular, resonated with me, "What are you doing now that you weren't doing a year ago?" Well, for me, ...

Quick Video from Mike Hedge

2010! Here's a quick video I threw together for the Filmmaker Summit 2010: www.mikehedge.com www.asthedustsettles.com