After tweeting, facebooking and e-mailing everyone on my contact list I successfully reached my $10,000 goal on kickstarter that I needed to finish up post production and to manufacture our first run of DVD’s. (which we pre-sold 250 copies of)
Once the film was completed we uploaded the film onto The Pirate Bay and a few [...]
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Tag Archives: diy
A Glimpse of the Future?
Interview: Arin Crumley & Kieran Masterton of Openindie
I recently spoke with Openindie creators Kieran Masterton and Arin Crumley (an innovative filmmaker the Wall Street Journal has listed as one of the top 20 media moguls) and together they are trying to build a website that may change the way we view, support and sustain ourselves off of independent film.
As a filmmaker I [...]
Collaboration: Figuring out a way to secure our future
It’s an interesting time to be a filmmaker. Technically we could all make a film, build a website, make a DVD, have our film seen by tens of millions of people and sell enough DVD’s online to make our money back and earn enough to make another film. But as we all know this is [...]
DIY
A friend and follower of Pedal sent Amanda and I a link to an upcoming Film Independent workshop. The focus is DIY film distribution, and it’s speaker is Jon Reiss, the author of an upcoming book called the DIY Bible.
At first glance, the program sounded really interesting to attend - it pushes hard the [...]
Re: Managing Expectations on the Festival Circuit
CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW THE ENTIRE PANEL DISCUSSION ON “MANAGING EXPECTATIONS ON THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT”.
MIKE AMBS moved to Los Angeles in February 2004, from the small town in south eastern Michigan where he grew up. He is a certified graphic designer and a naturally talented editor, with a truly unique ability to capture life through [...]
‘Pathetic’ compared to what?
Amanda and I weren’t able to go to SXSW this year - which had less to do with 64 Days not being accepted, and more with money and timing issues - but if one of us had gone to Austin we might have caught a panel discussion with several big doc’ directors including Morgan Spurlock [...]