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I have had the good fortune to work with Dan Habib - previously on his film Intelligent Lives.  Currently I am ...

As many of you know, I encourage filmmakers to get reviews across all major platforms IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, ...

Meanwhile, we are 2 months into the first cohort of the 6 Month Distribution Intensive that launched in December.  ...

Even though I use a lot of technical tools - many of which use AI as part of their functionality, I have been slow/loathe to use Chat GPT to write newsletters or social posts or press kits or anything else nor have I embraced Midjourney to create key art or other graphic design. 

Distribution Advocates has started a podcast where host Avril Speaks unravels the convoluted world of indie ...

I had an intense, inspiring and quite informative time at Sundance this year.  I committed to seeing films (where in the past I might only catch two or three films over five days), this year I got to see seven in Park City and then another seventeen after I got home.  There were a lot of incredible films - a great year for Eugene Hernandez's first as director of the festival.

This week, Paula Bernstein wrote a nice piece for Filmmaker Mag reporting from the Bend Film Festival about a panel of film festival programmers on recommendations of how to apply to film festivals.  Since this is prime film festival application season - its a timely and helpful article. 

I've been assisting and super impressed with the grassroots FYC campaign that the incredibly pro-active filmmakers ...

Day and Date used to be the thing, then a huge variety of short window variations Day and Week, Day and Month, ...

In the indie film world this week - Sundance and Slamdance announced their slates.  Films that didn't get in ...

We launched the first cohort of the 6 Month Distribution Intensive this morning and it was so much fun!!  I forgot ...

Had a great time speed consulting last month with Film Fatales members Hazel Gurland-Pooler (Storming Caesars ...