45365 is a documentary that was at Full Frame but I never got a chance to watch it. This week it's been on Hulu for free, which I'm very excited about (but today is the last day so watch it now). But for the film itself, I thought it was great. It's very Cinema...
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Jon Reiss Interview – Think Outside The Box Office [Podcast]
Jon Reiss Interview Jon Reiss (@Jon_Reiss) has become one of the main voices on DIY and alternative distribution (along with Ted Hope). He's a filmmaker and the author of the book Think Outside the Box Office, an invaluable resource for anyone who's made or (more...
“Hiring a Marketing Producer” and Other Great Stuff
Apparently there was a time when a young filmmaker such as yourself could make a decent independent film, submit it to festivals and sit back while distributors threw wads of cash at your feet, all while begging for the privilege to give your little indie the...
My Kickstarter Experience: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
It's four days before the deadline for my Kickstarter project reaches its end. I'm only about a third of the way to my $9000 goal - a seemingly impossible feat. A few hours later the goal is reached! So sudden? Anti-climactic? I know. Now I wish I could say I received...
Flattr Beta Testing
A few weeks ago I wrote about the new site Flattr, which is a new venture to try to monetize blog content. Basically it's a button like a Digg button, you click on stuff you like and depending on how many things you Flattr, the monthly amount of money that's in your...
TechCrunch Disrupt
I'm at TechCrunch Disrupt right now, watching Charlie Rose asking questions about the future of tech. I'm here to keep an eye out for new technologies that can be used to produce, market, distribute, and engage audiences for films and filmmakers. So far SCVNGR has...
Meetup Everywhere – Organize an Audience for Your Film
Meetup is a site and tool that allows you to create a group and organize real life meetups (remember those?). Usually these were location based (like Miami Movie Makers) so if you had a company or movement, you couldn't really enable independent groups to organize and...
Interactive Zombie Adventure – Very Clever
This is very clever - it's a zombie adventure story that gives you choices along the way, using the YouTube annotations to link to another video that reveals the outcome of the path you choose. Does the adventure continue, or does your choice lead you to become zombie...
I’ve Got a Finished Movie, Got Rejected from SXSW, and Other Adventures From These Past Months
Damn, it's been long since my last post. Too long. It's not from forgetting - I have dry erase boards and notecards full of blog posts ideas. And Andrew and I have had countless conversations that end with, "This should be a Coffee and Celluloid Post." They just never...