Jon Reiss, Sherry Candler, Orly Ravid & The Film Collaborative have been doing a tremendous service for the global film community for some time now releasing books that are free to download and address the core problems the indie film world are facing. But they just took it up another step.
This is how we move forward. It is a team approach. They give, so you should give back. You too need to figure out how we move this all forward.
Jon, Sherry, & Orly have been joined this time round by Wendy Bernfield and Jeffrey Winter.
You can download the book either as a Pdf or Epub.
The question should be how can you show them thanks.
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This is how we move forward. It is a team approach. They give, so you should give back. You too need to figure out how we move this all forward.
Jon, Sherry, & Orly have been joined this time round by Wendy Bernfield and Jeffrey Winter.
You can download the book either as a Pdf or Epub.
The question should be how can you show them thanks.
Tweet...
- 6/6/2014
- by tedhope
- Hope for Film
Still trying to get on track, I missed the Woodstock Film Festival Brunch because I had the wrong address for the New York Lounge which changed its venue after many years. Then it was too packed to get into, so I wandered up and down Main Street until the Creative Coalition Lunch. I stopped in at the new Sundance Co-op where sponsors had some fun giveaways: L'Oreal was doing make-up and hair styling, Waldorf Hotel gave me some really nice gloves with Sundance logo and their own, Canada Goose took 4 photo booth pictures of me wearing their hat and jacket.
The Creative Coalition lunch began with cocktails where I saw Gael Garcia Bernal and thanked him for making Who is Dayani Cristal? which Indiewire has reviewed (see the link). However they changed venues as well and I did not much like the cocktail venue; it was crowded and felt more like a press work session than a social event. The lunch started at 1pm and I had to make a 2:30pm screening so I was tense. Two awards are given to inspirational teachers. The first was not quite focussed though the audience very much enjoyed hearing Bill Pullman speak of his growing up; his advice was "don't take advice". The interview was a bit scattered and it was only at the end when Bill told the audience that his early acting teacher now has established a free theater (and school) in a small town far from the maddening crowd that I understood the teacher's true devotion.
Joey Lauren Adams, originally for North Little Rock, was much more inspiring. Her 8th grade drama teacher spoke of how Joey Lauren as a natural and when she enacted a scene, she showed the teacher herself something she had never understood to be a part of that scene before. Joey Lauren herself told of how shocked she was to not make the cheerleader team as everyone she knew including her sister were cheer leaders. Finding herself an outcast, she compensated by becoming an office monitor and felt important being able to issue hall passes (or not). She joined the Drama Club which was a venue for geeks, not cheerleaders, and her teacher opened her eyes to the world and to her own unique self and formed her desire to become an actress. That was truly inspiring!
From the lunch I caught a bus and arrived in time for Inequality For All which is have blogged about immediately on leaving, so inspired was I. And besides, I was on the buss going to the next event - Ira Deutschman's Columbia party and the party for We Are What We Are where I got to sit and talk with Orly Ravid who is in law school and her partner Jeffrey Winter from The Film Collaborative.
I sat next to Debra Zimmerman of Women Make Movies who helped me with my iPad while we caught up a little. It was at the Bahamas Film Festival Junkaroo practice several years ago since we had any time together. She is being honored everywhere for her 40 year old anniversary of Women Make Movies and invited me to their celebration here in Sundance. We met again at the Ida/ ro*co party at the Kimball Art Center where she introduced me to her posse, Itvs folks and others. Michael Donaldson, Lisa Callif and Chris Perez were all there from Donaldson Callif and we got time to catch up on them and their 11 films at Sundance (and 2 at Slamdance). So many others celebrating documentaries, I cannot go through all the cards I collected.
Again I missed the Korean party I thought, but just realized that it is Monday. So I returned to Prospector Square on the bus, found my lost glasses and walked to Eccles to find my car (free parking on Saturdays!) and drove home where Harlan and I reviewed our day and planned for tomorrow.
See you Day 4!
The Creative Coalition lunch began with cocktails where I saw Gael Garcia Bernal and thanked him for making Who is Dayani Cristal? which Indiewire has reviewed (see the link). However they changed venues as well and I did not much like the cocktail venue; it was crowded and felt more like a press work session than a social event. The lunch started at 1pm and I had to make a 2:30pm screening so I was tense. Two awards are given to inspirational teachers. The first was not quite focussed though the audience very much enjoyed hearing Bill Pullman speak of his growing up; his advice was "don't take advice". The interview was a bit scattered and it was only at the end when Bill told the audience that his early acting teacher now has established a free theater (and school) in a small town far from the maddening crowd that I understood the teacher's true devotion.
Joey Lauren Adams, originally for North Little Rock, was much more inspiring. Her 8th grade drama teacher spoke of how Joey Lauren as a natural and when she enacted a scene, she showed the teacher herself something she had never understood to be a part of that scene before. Joey Lauren herself told of how shocked she was to not make the cheerleader team as everyone she knew including her sister were cheer leaders. Finding herself an outcast, she compensated by becoming an office monitor and felt important being able to issue hall passes (or not). She joined the Drama Club which was a venue for geeks, not cheerleaders, and her teacher opened her eyes to the world and to her own unique self and formed her desire to become an actress. That was truly inspiring!
From the lunch I caught a bus and arrived in time for Inequality For All which is have blogged about immediately on leaving, so inspired was I. And besides, I was on the buss going to the next event - Ira Deutschman's Columbia party and the party for We Are What We Are where I got to sit and talk with Orly Ravid who is in law school and her partner Jeffrey Winter from The Film Collaborative.
I sat next to Debra Zimmerman of Women Make Movies who helped me with my iPad while we caught up a little. It was at the Bahamas Film Festival Junkaroo practice several years ago since we had any time together. She is being honored everywhere for her 40 year old anniversary of Women Make Movies and invited me to their celebration here in Sundance. We met again at the Ida/ ro*co party at the Kimball Art Center where she introduced me to her posse, Itvs folks and others. Michael Donaldson, Lisa Callif and Chris Perez were all there from Donaldson Callif and we got time to catch up on them and their 11 films at Sundance (and 2 at Slamdance). So many others celebrating documentaries, I cannot go through all the cards I collected.
Again I missed the Korean party I thought, but just realized that it is Monday. So I returned to Prospector Square on the bus, found my lost glasses and walked to Eccles to find my car (free parking on Saturdays!) and drove home where Harlan and I reviewed our day and planned for tomorrow.
See you Day 4!
- 1/20/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
by Jeffrey Winter, Sheri Candler, and Orly Ravid. The old philosophical thought experiment "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" has never been truer for film distribution. With the incredible number of films available for consumption on innumerable platforms, getting some form of distribution for your film is no longer the core problem. The central issue now is: how will anyone know about it? How will you find your audience? And how will you communicate enough to them to drive them to the point of actually seeing it? Before we plunge into that question, let’s take one step back and discuss the term...
- 1/26/2012
- by Jeffrey Winter, Sheri Candler, and Orly Ravid
- Hope for Film
UCLA is hosting a Diy Days this Friday 9Am to 7:30 Pm and The Film Collaborative's Orly Ravid and Jeffrey Winter will present their new must-read book "How to Sell Your Film Without Selling Your Soul" at 6:30. It will all take place at the Charles E. Young Research Library on the north side of the UCLA campus. Parking in Structure 3. Keep tuned for more important news on Diy, Transmedia and Social Networking. There are at least 2 more items I have up my sleeve!! In line with this is a great introduction to the subject by Nick DeMartino.…...
- 10/27/2011
- Sydney's Buzz
UCLA is hosting a Diy Day this Friday 9Am to 7:30 Pm and The Film Collaborative's Orly Ravid and Jeffrey Winter will present their new must-read book "How to Sell Your Film Without Selling Your Soul" at 6:30. It will all take place at the Charles E. Young Research Library on the north side of the UCLA campus. Parking in Structure 3. Keep tuned for more important news on Diy, Transmedia and Social Networking. There are at least 2 more items I have up my sleeve!! In line with this is a great introduction to the subject by Nick DeMartino. Its slant makes clear what is happening here these days! Marshall McLuhan's pronouncement that "the medium is the message" was revolutionary back...
- 10/27/2011
- Sydney's Buzz
UCLA is hosting a Diy Day this Friday 9Am to 7:30 Pm and The Film Collaborative's Orly Ravid and Jeffrey Winter will present their new must-read book "How to Sell Your Film Without Selling Your Soul" at 6:30. It will all take place at the Charles E. Young Research Library on the north side of the UCLA campus. Parking in Structure 3.
- 10/27/2011
- Sydney's Buzz
After discussion with various in-the-know friends and pros, the following is the Universal Unanimous recommendation for what is needed for taking out 'your film'. For a low fee you have here many options on Diy distribution ('do it yourself' strategies) and, from what I gather at this moment, they are the cutting edge. The expert-advisors in Diy must watch the film and talk to you to decide if it fits their plan. So it is not guaranteed that you are 'in there' but it is well worth the try as you will learn more with each encounter. If you do not land with a particular expert-advisor, there are other strategies (distribber.com is one which filmmakers I know love, and they are already cooperating with the suggestion below). For you to consider joining with "the one below, Orly Ravid and Jeffrey Winter's new company, you must go on their...
- 3/31/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
It's a wrap! The Martin Gropius Bau is empty and the final pickups follow. This is a work in progress and readers are invited and welcome to contribute. Presales have returned in reaction to the reduced number of finished films on offer over the past two markets. Presales applies across the board from Us to French and even Italian films. English language films are increasingly coming out of the major non English language territories but local product is impacting sales on Us films internationally. Business was quickly wrapped up but it was done with a healthy number of buys reported. Lower prices have become accepted but the market must have product as this event proved.
Adriana Chiesa has licensed Federico Moccia’s teen trilogy to Savor to Spain. The first title, Sorry If I Love You (Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore) grossed $27m when released by Medusa on 600 prints in Italy.
Adriana Chiesa has licensed Federico Moccia’s teen trilogy to Savor to Spain. The first title, Sorry If I Love You (Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore) grossed $27m when released by Medusa on 600 prints in Italy.
- 3/9/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
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