Independent Film Blog

5 Facebook Tips For Filmmakers w/ Social Media Expert Linda Nelson

Wanna know how to maximize your opportunities on Facebook and find out how you can leverage the powerful Facebook platform for your film? Go no further than listening to this interview with Social Media expert Linda Nelson! Take notes as Linda reveals her 5 biggest tips specifically targeted to filmmakers, that you’ll want to take and [...]

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Working Through Film Finance & Distribution Overwhelm

In order to demystify some of the Distribution Overwhelm that many of you are experiencing right now, I thought it would be helpful to perhaps illustrate what some other filmmakers are doing in specific situations that maybe YOU find yourself in right now. I know whenever I find myself in a situation where [...]

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5 Tips: Prepping For AFM

Hi there…. To cap off my series here of Filmmaker Case Studies from Film Markets, I wanted to include a recent interview I did with Digital Production Buzz called “5 Tips: Prepping For AFM”. Any of you planning on having your films at AFM? If so, are there any remaining questions you have that were [...]

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Turning Your Luck Around @ Film Markets

A year ago, filmmaker Richard Ford had a completed film “i-Crime” which he submitted to sales agents hoping to launch at AFM®, but got no response and no representation. He and his producing partner didn’t like taking NO for an answer, and decided to head to the market anyway, figuring they’d have better luck trying to [...]

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Finding Financing At Film Markets

Next up in our series of Film Market case studies….. Filmmaker Mark Shields went to the Cannes Film Market armed with a script and looking for financing. Although he was successful…. success didn’t come in the form you might think! In this case study, Mark discusses: • How he prepared for the Cannes Film Market • The role his [...]

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DIY Film Market Case Study

I plucked this one from the Film Specific archives – one of our most popular Case Studies….. After several years of attending film markets and studying the dynamics, learning the “business” of filmmaking and distribution, and meeting the buyers face-to-face, filmmaker Christian Viel started selling his films (and those from other filmmakers) at international film markets. After [...]

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First Time To Film Market

First time feature director Rahul Gandotra went to the Cannes Film Market with nothing more than a completed short, and a ’script in process’ for a feature length film based on the short. His goal? To find a Producer with a track record to help him get his film financed and off the ground. How many of [...]

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Financing Your Film For Distribution

I’m working with a client right now who is getting his business plan ready to start approaching investors for his million dollar budgeted film. Problem is, he decided he wanted to do a film for $1 million without WORKING BACKWARDS to see if his film can even support that budget. Not good! So I worked with [...]

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My Top 10 Cannes Take-Away’s

During the Cannes Film Festival & Market last week, I enjoyed uploading daily video snippet on the Film Specific Facebook page to give people a real sense of what the infamous Cannes Market actually looks like. I know many of you got a kick out of those but I wanted to spend a few [...]

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Crowd Funding vs. Hybrid Film Financing

There’s seems to be all kind of fuss lately about ‘new’ film financing models such as Crowd Funding. And for good reason! Independent Producers are making real headway financing their films this way. Almost every day I hear of a new case study of someone successfully raising money for their film utilizing crowd funding methods- [...]

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