Lining Up Distribution and Sales Agents
This is actually somewhat impossible for most independent feature films just at the moment. In 2008 when the stock market crashed, motion picture studios and distributors hit a serious cash flow crisis. Their operations were funded by banks, by hedge funds, by asset backed securities transactions, by government rebates and overseas investors....
Understanding the Iron Triangle of Film Financing
If you want to produce a feature film you need many things, most of which are relatively easy to acquire. You need a script, a camera, a camera man, lights, a location, a crew, etc. But the heart of your production, if your film is to be profitable, will be the Iron Triangle, which is to say a cast, financing and distribution. If you have a...
How to Market Your Film: How to Find Your Target Market . . . Fast
If you are a film producer, you already know that to produce a feature film, you must sell it over and over and over again from the time it is a script. First you sell it to yourself, then to any co-producer you acquire, then to investors, talent and key crew. Each of those folks you bring on to that film has to take a chance on you, and on the...
Your Film Needs a Website: Here’s How to Get One
Every production needs a website. It needs to have a signature image, a poster image, that defines what the film is about. You should test your signature image on your target market to find the one that they like most. A signature image should speak “loud and clear” to your target market. With a sequel, your signature image may be nothing more...
Make Your Feature, Documentary or Short Film Available for Sale Now
If you have a short film, a feature film or a documentary that is complete and you don't have distribution for it, use www.CreateSpace.com to distribute it. You simply log into their website, tell them about your project, upload a DVD cover, and then ship them the CD or DVD. They make it available through your online store, available for sale on...
Defining Success For Your Documentary
The Critical First Step One of the most important things you can do to insure your project’s ultimate success is simply to define your documentary and its objectives. To help you do this, start by answering the questions outlined below. There are no right answers to these questions but there are definitely wrong answers. Anything less than...
Documentary Distribution Economics & Options
There are several ways in which a documentary can earn revenue. Maximizing each revenue stream, while minimizing the costs associated with revenue collection and the time required to collect revenues, is the key to creating a financially profitable film. Films can be distributed in the following ways: US Theatrical Release Foreign...
The Iron Triangle: Cast, Financing & Distribution
Ancient alchemists spent their lives in pursuit of the Philosopher's Stone, a magical item that, once made, would turn lead into gold. As a filmmaker you will spend a great deal of time in pursuit of something almost as ephemeral called the Iron Triangle. In order to produce a feature film you need many things, most of which are relatively...
