Film Festival Secrets

Film Festival Secrets

Author: Christopher Holland

Publisher:

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780971835610

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Every year thousands of filmmakers like you unleash their newly completed movies upon the film festival circuit. Whether you're a first-timer with a comedy short or a seasoned veteran with a documentary feature, you all face the same set of problems. You all ask the same questions. You all want the pleasure of seeing your film play before a festival audience and gain the recognition it deserves. This is your book. Film Festival secrets will help you select the right festivals for your film, prepare your festival screener, save money on festival fees, create marketing collateral, and craft a screening sell out plan. And that's just the beginning.


Think Outside the Box Office

Think Outside the Box Office

Author: Jon Reiss

Publisher: Hybrid Cinema

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780982576205

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As the digital revolution has democratised film production, a new hybrid model of distribution is the way independent filmmakers can take control of their own distribution. This approach is not just DIY or Web-based - it combines the best techniques from each distribution arena, old and new. In Think Outside the Box Office, Reiss explains audience identification and targeting, negotiating split-rights agreements, the new role of film festivals and more.


The Independent Film Producers Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

The Independent Film Producers Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook

Author: Gunnar Erickson

Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 0857124986

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In this comprehensive guidebook, three experienced entertainment lawyers tell you everything you need to know to produce and market an independent film from the development process to deal making, financing, setting up the production, hiring directors and actors, securing location rights, acquiring music, calculating profits, digital moving making, distribution, and marketing your movie.


Marketing to Moviegoers

Marketing to Moviegoers

Author: Robert Marich

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0240806875

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The author goes right to the source and provides data, quotes, and insights from high profile industry professionals and information on market research that the major studios don't want the moviegoing public to know. This book provides practical data, such as templates for advertising campaigns of different sizes, solutions, and an insight into the complicated movie marketing process. Armed with the strategies that Hollywood professionals would prefer not to share, film professionals and marketing professionals alike will have a leg up in this complicated business.


Marketing and Selling Your Film Around the World

Marketing and Selling Your Film Around the World

Author: John Durie

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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It includes essential information and advice on such subjects as securing a sales agent, providing agents and distributors with necessary promotional materials, working the film markets and festivals, and understanding the audience demographics and the industry business practices peculiar to specific territories."--BOOK JACKET.


Off-Hollywood

Off-Hollywood

Author: David M. Rosen

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780802131874

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Provides information on how to make and distribute independent productions, and gives examples of different styles, budgets, and financial arrangements used


Guerrilla Film Marketing

Guerrilla Film Marketing

Author: Robert G. Barnwell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-07-11

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1351018051

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Create an irresistible brand image and build an audience of loyal and engaged fans... Guerrilla Film Marketing takes readers through each step of the film branding, marketing and promotional process. Tailored specifically to low-budget independent films and filmmakers, Guerrilla Film Marketing offers practical and immediately implementable advice for marketing considerations across every stage of the film production process. Written by leading film industry professional Robert G. Barnwell, Guerrilla Film Marketing teaches readers how to: Master the fundamentals of guerrilla branding, marketing and promotion; Create an integrated marketing plan and calendar based on realistic budgets and expectations; Develop internet and social media marketing campaigns, including engaging studio and film websites and powerful, marketing-centric IMDb listings; Assemble behind-the-scenes pictures, videos and documentaries; Produce marketing materials such as key art, posters, film teasers, trailers and electronic press kits (aka "EPKs"); and Maximize the marketing impact of events such as test screenings, premiers, film festivals and industry award ceremonies. Guerrilla Film Marketing is filled with dozens of step-by-step instructions, checklists, tools, a glossary, templates and other resources. A downloadable eResource also includes a sample marketing plan and audit, a test screening questionnaire, and more.