Netribution is pleased to be supporting a new project being run by the Scottish Documentary Institute looking at emerging funding and distribution models in the documentary space over three promising new feature films. A key part of this is recruiting what Jon Reiss calls a PMD - a producer of Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition - who not only co-ordinates online marketing, but can handle crowd-funding and DIY distribution. The job description is below...

from SDI

Full Time – 17 months, £24,000-£26,000 pa

This is a unique opportunity for someone to be at forefront of new models of documentary film investment and audience engagement. A successful PMD can make the difference between a film you never heard of and a glowing success which pays back its investors and sets the filmmakers up to make more. You will test and develop tools and strategies to be used at any stage of production and distribution and run crowdfunding campaigns. You will work across a number of feature documentaries at different stages.

Your task will include definition of an authentic voice for SDI’s online communications and to aggregate audiences across projects. You should be a digital native, a natural communicator and motivator, and able to manage multiple priorities.

from Scottish Documentary Institute

Everything you wanted to know about producing & directing feature documentaries and were afraid to ask.

DOC WEEK will run alongside the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival (16-27 June 2010) and host the annual Edinburgh Pitch, Documentary Case Studies, Doc in Progress consultancies, meetings and briefings with documentary experts, Sales Agents, Distributors, Producers and the Docs 360 Pitch. Apply to pitch or register for a Doc Week pass now. Deadline for project applications: 10 May - www.docscene.org/docweek

The Edinburgh Pitch: 15-17 June 2010

The annual Edinburgh Pitch is the only international pitching forum in Scotland open to all filmmakers, UK and abroad, looking to produce a feature length documentary. After a pitching and development workshop, projects will be pitched formally in front of a carefully selected panel of international and UK commissioning editors, sales agents and producers.

 

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Scottish Documentary Institute is thrilled to host multi-award winning Kazakh filmmaker Sergey Dvortsevoy in Edinburgh to talk about his work! This really is a one-off masterclass that is not to be missed.

Has anyone seen the new interactive narrative uses of YouTube Flash format? A promising development, and one that may come up in the latest free lecture from Bridging the Gap.. Friday  6th February 2009 14.00-17.00pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF    Free but please RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it In this lecture Dutch new media specialist Martijn de Waal .....

With more sites popping up for raising documentary finance, such as Reel Changes and Reelisor, (not to mention IndieGoGo, IndieShares, Kinooga and the UK's IndieMaverick and MovieMogulFund), a free workshop on making trailers for fundraising from the Scottish Documentary Institute looks just the ticket (thanks Sonja):

Not to be missed! A unique opportunity to absorb all you need to know about how to make your trailer work and be seen by all the right people in the industry. Trailer Mechanics is a one-day experiential workshop for producers, directors, writers and editors in the documentary field from beginners to veterans. It teaches how to put together and structure a 3 to 15 minute demo of a documentary film for fundraising purposes.