by Merrill Sterritt
In our first installment, my Film Presence partner did a broad overview of basic outreach strategy. For our second blog post, I’m going to focus on how to make your outreach to potential partners as targeted and personal as possible, starting in the research phase.
When you’re …
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Full Panel. Hear from the team behind one of the year’s top grossing documentaries, Sundance Audience Award winning Buck as they discuss the challenges of their filmmaking process from inception to release.
Julie Goldman, Producer, Motto Pictures
Julie has produced a wide range of award-winning documentaries that have been distributed …
by Sara Kiener
Outreach means different things to different people, but when Merrill Sterritt and I co-founded Film Presence in early 2010, we set out to help give form to a certain type of outreach that balances “making an impact” and boosting overall revenue. Here’s how we define it: …
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Valemont’s transmedia experience was created to support the series produced by MTV and Electric Farm Entertainment, and sponsored by Verizon. It included a hub site (ValemontU.com), nine character Twitter accounts, three blogs, a Facebook page and SMS messaging. Transmedia Producer Nina Bargiel will take you through the process …
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This panel will example Lance Weiler’s Pandemic, a storyworld experience consisting of film, mobile, online, social gaming and data visualization combined to tell the story of a strange pandemic outbreak. The project debuted this past January at the Sundance Film Festival as an official selection within the New …
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A generation is rising that has come to expect entertainment content that is “alive,” responsive and fully engaging. But few of us are giving it to them. In this provocative keynote talk, Jeff Gomez, the world’s leading producer of highly successful transmedia franchises, will forward bold ideas on …
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From multimedia to transmedia and interactive to immersive, innovations in technology have driven experiments in storytelling … but also an explosion in fuzzy new jargon. What you learned in film school (but not only at film school) is actually all you really need to know, because all of …
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Cora Olson & Jennifer Dubin have produced four films. Their latest, THE PERFECT FAMILY, starring Kathleen Turner, was a hit at this year’s TriBeca Film Festival.
In between meetings on a rainy afternoon, Cora sat down with me at Norwood to discuss financing for independent films, and how creative producers need …