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Audiences: Making Film Pay and Play in the Digital Future

from Independent Cinema Office Producers, distributors and exhibitors are all using digital marketing tools to promote films and get them seen by audiences. Too often, however, they are working in isolation from one another. This pioneering programme will bring together professionals from across the film industry chain to explore a cross-sector, streamlined approach to building audience ...

Exhibition and Distribution: dirty words?

Laurence Boyce, regular Netribution contributor and former director of GLIMMER: The Hull International Short Film Festival, give his opinion on the worrying trend to ignore exhibition and distribution in the UKFC debate. (EDIT: Since being published, this article has also appeared on the Encounters International Film Festival website at www.encounters-festival.org)  A recent letter to Sight A...

Multi-platform business training - August 2010

from Laura at the Media Business School Multi Platform Business School is a five-day workshop for producers of audiovisual media to enhance their skills in building business models for the development of 360º - content, the financing and marketing of linear and interactive formats and the distribution in more than one market.

Crossing the Pond: Ten Tips for Making it in LA

Ever considered trying to launch your film career from LA? Concerned about the outcome of the next British election and considering your options? Alan Denman was a pivotal part of the London indie film community, notably as Chair of the Screenwriter's Workshop and Head of Development for Euroscript until he left to the US in 2004. Tom Fogg interviewed him here, long ago, and indeed when I start...

Maligned Midnight Cult Classic

There was a time up until the late 90’s where late night television cult oddities were shown to fill out the schedules. To most people this was just fodder but for some people this was THE place where b-movie fanatics discovered cult classics like Race with the Devil, or The Keep and the now forgotten classic Night of the Eagle with Peter Wyngarde. Appearing in the graveyard slots, these films ...