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Guest Post: Jennifer Fox "PART 3: How MY REINCARNATION Broke All Kickstarter Records"
Yesterday, the profoundly generous Jennifer Fox shared with us four more of the lessons she learned crowdfunding. This after a run two week's earlier where she shared a host of other (1st six here, next 14 here, next 9 here).
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Guest Post: Jennifer Fox “PART 2: How MY REINCARNATION Broke All Kickstarter Records"
Two weeks ago Jennifer Fox shared with us some of the lessons she learned crowdfunding (1st six here, next 14 here, next 9 here).
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Guest Post: Jennifer Fox "How MY REINCARNATION Broke All Kickstarter Records & Raised $150,000"
Two weeks ago Jennifer Fox shared with us some of the lessons she learned crowdfunding (1st six here, next 14 here) . Since then, she has gone down in the record books for both the number of donations and the amount thereof. If they gave records for quality as well as quantity she probably would h...
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The Next Step Towards Your Personalized Pleasure Planet
Suggestion engines tell you what might appeal to you: i.e. you loved "REPULSION" and "CACHE", so you will also like "MARTHA MARCEY MAY MARLENE". But if you are at all like me, you've already found enough movies to get you well past your life expectancy rate. It's now more you crave, but less!
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Guest Post: Felicia Ptolemy "Tool Review: Transcendent Man on The Dynamo Player"
A while back we had Dynamo Player's founder Rob Millis introduce us to this useful tool for DIY Distribution. But how do the filmmakers using it, feel about the Dynamo Player? Today, Felicia Ptolemy, one of the producers behind one very successful film, Transcendent Man, shares their thoughts on t...
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itzon – a new film platform. It’s film, but different.
I got a press release last week announcing a new platform for indie film that I thought you all would like to know about, and it's FREE. The press release is below. Let me know what you think about this new platform for indie film.
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Guest Post by Jennifer Fox: "Change Or Die: How 22 Years On One Film Lead To Desperate Measures
I have been producing for about 25 years now. I have routines, methods, and even rituals that help me get done what I have to get done. But if there is one thing that is constant in the film/media biz it is change. If we don't remain eternal students, we don't evolve and grow. Both our art and o...
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Guest Post by Ross Howden: "How Do You Sell A Film That's Being Given Away?"
The most important thing for filmmakers is to have an audience. Survival (aka Economic Returns) probably falls next on the list. Using the available tools to distribute and aggregate, are these two pursuits compatible?
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Guest Post by Jon Fougner: Cinema Profitability Part 3
This is Part 3 of Jon Fougner's guest series on Cinema Profitablility - today he focuses on the channels:
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Guest Post: Rob Mills "Online Distribution: 10 Lessons from Dynamo Player"
It used to be that indie filmmakers generally made their films for an audience/market of 6-10; those days their audience was the buyers at the film festivals. Those days made life simple: filmmakers had two responsibilities -- make your damn movie and then surrender. The idea then was that distrib...
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