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PARK CITY: Exploring the Solutions, Part 2

SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Dan Mirvish, Brian Newman, Ira Deutchman and Ted Hope to further explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring a proposal for a new relationship between filmmakers and festivals as outlined by Peter Baxter at the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.

PARK CITY: Exploring the Solutions, Part 1

SABI filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah speak with Ted Hope, Jon Reiss, Mynette Louie (Children of Invention) and Linas Phillips (Bass Ackwards) to explore the solutions that are emerging for independent filmmakers – featuring some of the insights and actions that came from the 2010 Filmmaker Summit.

The SABI Festival Strategy

STEP ZERO: ASK YOURSELF WHY
Be honest with yourself and ask why you want to do this. It will be a financial, emotional and physical drain to be sure. So you must define your goals and the reason why they are goals. For us, we have solidified our plans to release HEART OF [...]

Article Response: 5 THINGS YOU SHOULD DO IF YOU WANT YOUR MOVIE TO LAST

I just read the Filmmaker Magazine article “5 Things You Should Do If You Want Your Movie to Last” by Higgins and Loe. It made me ponder my intentions for making InSearchOf, if I even considered how to make “my film last” or if even it mattered to me.
Do filmmakers even care about making their [...]

Rampant Piracy of Indies? Well, Not So Quick.

I frequent a lot of filmmaking message boards – filmmaker magazine, dvxuser, withoutabox, and on and on. And from time to time I’ve seen panicked filmmakers making announcements that they just discovered their film… gasp!… has been pirated.
Many immediately point a finger at the festival submission process, accusing their screeners of leaking the film [...]