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When you have a film with a message or call to action, theatrical distribution may not be the best strategic tool. Hear from film and media makers who eschewed traditional theatrical documentary to connect with audiences

Ryan Davis, Social Media Director, Blue State Digital
Ryan Davis is Social Media Director at Blue State Digital, where he’s worked with clients ranging from X Factor USA, NAACP, to Rockefeller Foundation. A campaign veteran, he was a member of Howard Dean’s 2004 Presidential Campaign webteam. He’s spoke on social media at venues including Harvard and Google DC.

Robert Seigel, Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP
Specializing as a transactional attorney for the media and entertainment industries with an emphasis on fiction and non-fiction film and television projects as well as new media from development, financing, and production through distribution. Represents producers, writers, directors, sales agents, investors, performers and others.
Basil Tsiokos, Documentary Film & Festival Consultant
Consultant to filmmakers and film festivals; Documentary Programming Associate, Sundance; Co-Producer, THE CANAL STREET MADAM; contributor, indieWIRE; visiting Instructor, Pratt; former Artistic & Executive Director, NewFest: NY LGBT Film Festival. MA, Cinema Studies, NYU; BA, Stanford.

Amy Slotnick, Marketing/Distribution Consultant
As a Marketing/Distribution Consultant Amy Slotnick works with filmmakers to
build, manage and optimize digital and traditional marketing and distribution, allowing them to better engage their audiences. Credits include Kevin Smith’s RED STATE (pre-release 15 city tour), THE BUSINESS OF BEING BORN and WAKE UP.

Jason Spingarn-Koff, Video Producer, Opinion, New York Times
As the new video producer for the Opinion section of The New York Times, Jason is in charge of identifying, soliciting and overseeing video contributions from independent filmmakers, artists and animators. The short films will appear throughout nytimes.com. Jason’s directing and producing work includes the acclaimed feature documentary “Life 2.0.”

Wendy Levy, Senior Strategist, Tomorrow Partners
WENDY LEVY is a Senior Strategist at Tomorrow Partners in Berkeley, CA. Tomorrow is a full service creative agency that collaborates with clients to imagine what’s next. With a focus on sustainability, Tomorrow helps forward thinking companies talk their walk, transcending tidy disciplines to develop the big ideas and strategic foundation that will set their brand apart. Tomorrow leads inspired creative that turns heads, grabs hearts, and accelerates sustainable growth. Before joining Tomorrow, Wendy worked for eight years at BAVC as Director of Media Arts and Education, Creative Director, and Director of the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies.

Wendy speaks regularly at festivals and conferences internationally, on a broad range of topics in documentary, emerging media, social justice, and human rights. She has been a featured speaker and panel moderator at the United Nations, Sundance, Sheffield Documentary Festival, Australia International Documentary Conference, The Good Pitch, Documentary Edge New Zealand, Beyond Broadcast, Making Your Media Matter, Latino International Film Festival, and the National Black Programming Consortium’s New Media Lab, among many others. An accomplished filmmaker, Wendy’s short films have screened at Sundance and at festivals worldwide, won numerous awards, and have been broadcast on PBS and the Sundance Channel.

Wendy has a BA in English and Ethnopoetics from Oberlin College, an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. She has taught Media Studies, Film Theory, and Film and Video Production at numerous colleges and universities in the Bay Area including UC Berkeley Extension, San Francisco City College, the College of San Mateo, and San Francisco State University.