The Internet Saves The Indie Filmmaker - Or Does It?

Marc Aramian looks at some the funding options that the internet is making available to the indie guerrilla filmmaker.

…he Hollywood business model may seem like it’s a dinosaur, now that the barriers to distribution have vanished. But Hollywood doesn’t just create and distribute content, it also funds it through a variety of investment sources.

Is it possible to bypass the Hollywood money machine? How are we as filmmakers going to make enough money from streaming web content to make it worthwhile for ourselves and an investor? Is the allure of rubbing shoulders with the stars enough to entice the nouveau riche into investing in a web-distributed film?

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Enrique

29. Jan, 2009

All these articles about earning money online, getting distributed online, etc., I’ll pick up interesting bits and pieces here and there, but none of them explain the most important thing - how to get people interested to watch in the first place!

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Dennis

29. Jan, 2009

To name a few:

Audience Building Tools:
http://filmmakeriq.com/distrib.....tools.html

7 Fool-proof indie film marketing tactics:
http://filmmakeriq.com/distrib.....ctics.html

Sundance Panels: New Models of Distribution:
http://filmmakeriq.com/distrib.....ution.html

MobMov Guerrilla Drive-ins:
http://filmmakeriq.com/distrib.....e-ins.html

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