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Starting Tomorrow: How to Create A Distribution and Marketing Strategy – Now!
In collaboration with The D-Word, I will be giving a practical four-week workshop on modern distribution and ...
Reimagining Film Distribution with the 8Above Distribution Lab
The Summer Cohort of the 8 Above Distribution Lab is now open to applications.
Since I wrote Think ...
Joining Forces to Block The Merger
Future Film Coalition Joins 1,000+ Industry Leaders Urging Action on Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery ...
See This Film, Please!
Steal This Story, Please! Opens this Week in the US proving again that the country is hungry for ...
Cinema, Meet the Creator Economy Webinar
Replay and extensive summary of our webinar with Max Reisinger and Richard Rushfield. What can filmmakers learn ...
Four Week Workshop: How to Create A Distribution and Marketing Strategy – Now!
In collaboration with The D-Word, I will be giving a practical four-part series on modern distribution and ...
4 Essential Questions About Your Audience (That Too Many Filmmakers Skip) Pt 2
Where does your audience receive information? How does your audience consume media? Plus next week's webinar on ...
Fight Media Consolidation? Build a New Ecosystem? Why Not Both!
The Future Film Coalition wins a Lumen Award - And is YouTube the solution for independent film?
The Future ...
Cinema, Meet the Creator Economy
How creators are reshaping the way films are made, funded, and discovered and how filmmakers can learn from ...
4 Essential Questions About Your Audience (That Too Many Filmmakers Skip)-Pt 1
Knowing your audience isn’t just good marketing—it’s essential filmmaking.
In my post last week, I said ...
15 Years/15 Essential Concepts/10 Minutes
Explication of my Nondē Market Monday presentation reflecting on dangerous ideas past and present.
This ...
How a Political Documentary Became a Civic Movement
A replay and summary of our conversation with Director Kim A. Synder and Producer Janique Robillard on The ...
Is there a Distribution Revolution Brewing?
Sundance recap, FFC/Block the Merger, Librarians Case Study Next Week, Distribution Lab Films at SXSW and ...
Case Study Webinar: The Librarians
Learn how The Librarians team turned a theatrical release into a nationwide series of town halls about censorship ...
Chris Horton Joins 8 Above! Reflections on a Busy Event Theatrical Season
Happy New Year. We had a super busy fall with the releases of The Librarians running for four weeks at Film Forum ...
WB/Netflix/Paramount What Can We Do?
Freaked out/upset about the next stage of media consolidation and want to do something about it - Join ...
The Ultimate Merch Masterclass
Replay and in-depth report on one of our best webinars with filmmakers Gary Hustwit and Jeanie Finlay, Amy Hobby ...
Organizations I Support
With the intense funding drops this year I want to share a number of organizations that I support in case you are ...
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