FestBomb.com offers filmmakers the ability to submit to five or ten premium festivals of their choice with the click of a button. We require no sign-up or login from our users, making the process just a few short minutes. From start to finish, the filmmaker selects their choice of festivals, specifies which submission category for each festival, enters…
When Radiohead dropped the curtain on their “name your own price” experiment, many media commentators and music industry execs were quick to pronounce it a failure. For those who aren’t Radiohead fans, or indeed, never heard about it, the experiment involved the band making available their latest album, “In Rainbows” available as a download from their web site. Fans were asked…
“The greatest roadblock to success for an independent producer is not access to name talent or a great script or even money – it’s distribution.” That’s the view of Mark Byers, independent writer/producer, and co-creator of the S2ScreeningRoom.com website. Byers has worked in the independent film industry for over 25 years, both in the United…
At a time when international cinema and DVD revenues are declining and TV audiences are dwindling, why would a young company spend time signing up distribution rights for all sorts of independent content from all over the world? The answer might elude, confuse or scare many of the traditional media giants, but this is exactly…
Piracy – no, not the eye-patch type, but the copyright infringement variety. Product piracy has been with us since the industrial revolution, but today it is most common in the distribution of music, films and television shows. Compared to the film and TV industries, those music bods have been there, done that, bought the t-shirt…
HungryFlix.com, the Internet’s first distributor of premium, independent video content exclusively targeted to portable media players such as the Apple iPod and Sony PSP, is re-launching a live public beta. HungryFlix.com is drawing video content providers from across a wide range of genres. The site accepts feature length and short films, documentaries, animation, how-to videos, sports videos…
Finding foreign distribution for your independent film is an entirely different beast than finding domestic distribution. While it’s true that foreign distribution used to be responsible for 70% of the sales that were made on a film, unfortunately the same is not true today. Once upon a time you could rely on good ol’ foreign sales for paying your…
Filmmakers have held their breath at the prospect that their industry and craft is about to be changed forever by the impact of digital technology as a production medium and the internet as a delivery platform. Digital technology has undoubtedly had impact upon the art and craft of film making – whether that is a…
I’ve gotten a lot of questions lately from filmmakers who haven’t gone into production yet with their films, as to whether or not it’s a good time to start thinking about distribution. My answer is always the same: it’s a great idea to start thinking about distribution even BEFORE you make your film. For example, I’m big…
When I first heard of “vodcasting,” the term seemed to be a clumsy upgrade of the more popular term “podcasting.” Podcasting is related primarily to audio, so it seemed that for video, someone just stuck the letter V on the front. Now that I know it means “video-on-demand casting,” I think it’s a good moniker…
