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Film Festival Strategy Round-Up

Back when I started this blog in October (oh so long ago, eh?), my short term goal was to help filmmakers not be misguided as to what a festival, even Sundance, could do for their film.  We posted a bunch about film festival strategy and it is all collected here.

There is still a lot to say on the subject and we are open suggestion as to the topics.
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Truly Free Film

Follow Ted On Twitter

I just took another step into the modern world and opened a Twitter account.

Follow me at TedHope.
Let’s just call it an experiment for now.
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Truly Free Film

How To Do Almost Anything With Social Media

Mashable has a great How To list to celebrate the closure of 2008.  Google, Facebook, Twitter, Online Video, Social Networking, Social Media.  It’s all there.  Now you just have to find the time to read it and do it.  

And then you can save indie film before it’s too late!
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Truly Free Film

Tools Update: Theatrical Mapping Project

Jon Reiss writes:

I suggest TFF add the theatrical mapping project from the Workbook Project
“tools” section of the Truly Free Film site (consider it done, Jon! – Ted). This map was my first step in the theaters that I contacted for our theatrical release of Bomb It and as such was hugely instrumental in our release. We found other theaters that were not on the map and have since added them. The map was set up by the wonderful Lance Weiler – and it only expands if you contribute – so if you have a theater (or college campus) please add it – its very easy. I like Ted’s idea of potentially having another list or map of college campuses that screen independent film. We are working on booking Bomb It currently into colleges – so if you have any suggestions – send them along!

jon@jonreiss.com

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Bowl Of Noses

Cool Cars #9: Insect Car

Everything is too big to fit conveniently into our own bowls, right?  And as our brood of beasts continue to spawn and overpopulate the planet, how are we going to fit all this stuff we think we need into our hovels?  Either we all are going to have to stop accumulating so much useless junk, or we are going to have to start to get smaller.  Having our stuff get smaller is a decent start too.  That’s we love the Scarab.  Is this a car for tomorrow or what?!

This is the guy who designed it.  Pretty smart chap if we do say our self.  His grasshopper bike rocks too!  Let us know once you have given The Scarab a spin!

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Truly Free Film

Hope For The Future pt. 5: The List #’s 18 -21

18.A feature film is no longer defined as a singular linear narrative told in under two hours. Filmmakers are recognizing the need to extend the filmic world beyond the traditional confines. Whether this is in Judd Apatow’s YouTube shorts for KNOCKED UP or in Wes Anderson’s prologue short for THE DARJEELING EXPRESS, the beginning of new models have emerged helping filmmakers continue the conversation forward with their audiences.

19.New models for production are being utilized. The most widely noted in this regard is “crowdsourced” work. Massify has recently brought together the horror film Perkins 14. This year brought us Matt Hanson’s and A Swarm Of Angels open sourced / free culture start-up THE UNFOLD; the trailer is mysterious (see below) and I am looking forward to the feature. These massive collaborative works are the ultimate union between audience and creator.

20. Grassroots has come to distribution. The Living Room Theater model advanced by Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Theaters empowers audience members and filmmakers alike bringing them together and invested in each others success. Filmmakers give the audience more power and control, and audiences recognize that they have to fight to preserve the culture they want. The Micro Cinema Movement‘s been at it longer and is still going strong.

21. The independent art house theaters are organizing. Sundance is hosting the first Art House Convergence this year prior to the festival, helping to build the knowledge base of these theaters and enhance their collaboration. This platform will be key to preserving the theaterical experience for films outside the domain of the major media corporations.

Worlds Will Shatter – The Unfold (A Swarm Of Angels) trailer

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Bowl Of Noses

Make The Most Of Least

The Box Doodle project is a website that allows you to doodle on boxes and post them to the site.  It’s also a great inspiration for a rainy day.  Grab those boxes and get doodling before someone else snags them!