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The Gate – 2018 Case Study
This last year has been busy, busy, busy! We have been running marketing and distribution campaigns for a number of films this year.
Hybrid Cinema News
Hybrid Cinema is rebranding! I started Hybrid Cinema in 2010 when I wrote Think Outside the Box Office. Since 2012, I’ve advised hundreds of filmmakers and run the distribution and marketing campaigns for a number of films and in the process created a world-class team of people to handle outreach, social media, social advertising, graphic design and content.
Creative Distribution and Audience Engagement post-Cambridge Analytica
This Wednesday at 12:45pm most people will be scrambling to get to their coveted lunch break. They’ll sit on a ...
Applying to Film Festivals 10 Dos and 5 Don’ts
So it's that intense festival time of year again. You’re considering festivals, applying to festivals and who ...
How to Craft a Marketing and Distribution Plan That’s Right for You
Here is a post published by FIND after the marketing presentation I made at Film Independent in ...
Facebook Live: My work with NIN and Artistic Integrity
I often have clients come to me at various stages of their projects with concerns about how to keep their artistic ...
Reasons Why “Whose Streets” is Essential Viewing
While at the Sundance Film Festival this past week I had the fortune to to see the premiere of “Whose Streets” by ...
Documentary Magazine Article – Documentary Distribution in Turbulent Times
During IDA's Getting Real 2016 conference in September, Susan Margolin and I hosted a two part panel on the state ...
Artist, Filmmaker, & Renowned Disney Producer Don Hahn Comes to Cal Arts
Hard to believe we are already halfway through the first month of 2017! So much has already happened this year. I ...
10 Key Points on How to Move Forward With Outreach and Impact for Documentary Film
A Report from the IFP Filmmaker Lab
by Jon Reiss
With all the trauma of this past week, I at least had the good ...
Heading to Sheffield International Doc Fest and Edinburgh International Film Festival
I’m excited to be heading to the UK for the Sheffield International Doc Fest and the Edinburgh ...
What the F is a PMD and Why Do We Need One?
Back in 2010, two weeks before I went to print on Think Outside the Box Office, I coined a new crew position: the ...
Heading to IDFA
I'm excited to be heading to the IDFA festival and market in Amsterdam today! I'll be attending BritDocs ...
Romania Interviews
I just got the links to the TV and Radio interviews that I did while in Romania. We talked a lot about ...
Distribution Case Study – “Finding Hillywood”
Written by Leah Warshawski (Producer/Director) / Introduction by Jon Reiss
I recently wrote a two part ...
American Film Showcase Trip to Romania
Earlier this month I was lucky enough to travel to Romania with the American Film Showcase which is a ...
Off to Romania!
Tonight I’ll be heading off to Romania as an “expert” for the American Film Showcase. The AFS is a cultural ...
Distribution Transparency: Four Filmmakers Give Up the Gold Pt 2
Wednesday's post looked at Neil Berkeley and Judy Chaikin as two filmmakers who wanted to create a ...
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