New Directions for Independent Cinema: Ian Calderon

Ian Calderon, director of digital initiatives for the Sundance Institute, talks with CinemaTech editor Scott Kirsner about trends in independent film: delivering content to mobile phones and Internet-connected TVs, producing in 3-D, piracy, and the challenge of breaking through the noise — whether you’re submitting a film to Sundance or […]

Some Festival Advice for Filmmakers

AJ Schnack offers some advice for filmmakers in his “An Annual State of the Industry Post and Some Festival Advice for Filmmakers.”
…Distribution companies shutting down (or seemingly on the rocks). New technologies seeming to arrive on a daily basis. With all the fast and furious changes in the […]

From Here to Awesome: Film Festival

From Here to Awesome is a discovery and distribution film festival for more info visit fromheretoawesome.com.
How the festival works from fromheretoawesome on Vimeo.

Realistic strategy for the sale and distribution of your film.

By: Jeremy Coon (producer, “Napoleon Dynamite”)
Based on my observations, the biggest mistake independent filmmakers make is not having a realistic strategy for the sale and distribution of their film. Plenty focus on raising money and the many physical aspects of producing their film, which are all extremely important, but […]