Introduction: Why Audience-Building Should Start Before the Film Release For independent filmmakers, making a good movie is only half of the struggle since getting an audience can also be tough if there is not enough funding for advertising and distribution of the movie. Contrary to big movie studios, independent filmmakers do not usually have a […]
When filmmakers commission a poster from us at COLONFILM, one recurring problem arrives before the design begins: the stills are too small. Someone is investing in artwork for their film, yet the images supplied are low-resolution copies rather than frames exported from the original video. There can also be uncertainty about who chooses those frames, […]
The quickest way to lose a cinematic point of view on a branded film is to treat the brief as a shot list. The client needs the facility, the product, the team, an interview and the logo. You can photograph every one of those things beautifully and still end up with a film that nobody […]
Hi, my name is Rebekah Louisa Smith and I am a Film Festival Strategist. I help filmmakers get their films seen in film festivals around the world by creating for you the right type of strategy and recommending the best-suited festivals to submit your film to. I’ve helped thousands of filmmakers worldwide get their films […]
Not long ago, distribution was the finish line. How film distribution has changed. You wrote the screenplay, raised the money, made the film, premiered it at a festival and hoped a distributor would take it from there. If they said yes, your film found an audience. If they said no, your options were painfully limited. […]
As a documentary consultant I help documentary filmmakers develop their films to be the best they can be. These film ideas are often commissioned by Netflix, BBC, ITV or selected to play in top-tier film festivals. I usually work with directors before they go out to film, however sometimes I’m brought in after they’ve made […]
Everyone likes to say Netflix revolutionised film distribution. It didn’t. It digitised it. The pyramid stayed exactly the same — theatrical, then DVD, then cable, then whatever comes next — Netflix just moved the whole thing onto a server. The gatekeeper changed shape. It didn’t disappear. And for an independent filmmaker trying to get a […]
Somewhere on your phone right now, there’s probably a Telegram thread with your latest script draft attached. Maybe it’s a folder of dailies your DP sent over from set or a client conversation about festival rights. That’s just how a lot of low-budget and mid-size productions run: Telegram is fast, works across time zones, and […]
I am Zack Buchman, founder and Creative Director of Furry Puppet Studio, a custom puppet design studio in SoHo, New York. We design and build custom puppets for television, advertising, and music video, and most days I am somewhere between a workbench and a monitor, worrying about eyeballs. Why we still build it by hand A […]
International shoots can give an independent film something that is hard to fake such as texture, scale and truth. A street, a landscape, a local accent, or the way people naturally move through a place can add detail that a recreated location may never fully capture. But for smaller film crews, shooting abroad is extra […]
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