The Complete Guide to Finding Distributors and Sales Agents for Your Film
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FINDING DISTRIBUTORS AND SALES AGENTS FOR YOUR FILM provides a step-by-step guide for setting up distribution for your film. It is the same book as THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO DISTRIBUTING AN INDIE FILM with another title and cover image, which will be replacing this one. The book is designed primarily for independent filmmakers who are distributing their first few films with budgets ranging from under $200,000 to a few million.

It is divided into six sections which include:
- an overview of the distribution process, which describes the many channels for distributing a film, creating a realistic strategy, and approaching and assessing distributors and sales agents.
- creating your printed materials and deliverables, such as creating a poster, screener, trailer, and a complete film in different formats
- publicizing your film, from working with a publicist to doing it yourself; topics covered include creating press releases, a press kit, and a media portfolio, and contacting the media
- entering film festivals, including deciding which festivals to enter, upping your chances of getting in, and increasing your ability to get awards and attention
- arranging for theatrical screenings, from setting up screenings and making deals to building an audience
- making contacts at the AFM, whether you attend or make connections from afar.

The book is drawn from the author's experiences in distributing and promoting her own feature film, attending festivals and conferences, going to the AFM, helping clients who have set up theatrical screenings, and doing research on recent developments and trends in distribution.
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The Complete Guide to Finding Distributors and Sales Agents for Your Film
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FINDING DISTRIBUTORS AND SALES AGENTS FOR YOUR FILM provides a step-by-step guide for setting up distribution for your film. It is the same book as THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO DISTRIBUTING AN INDIE FILM with another title and cover image, which will be replacing this one. The book is designed primarily for independent filmmakers who are distributing their first few films with budgets ranging from under $200,000 to a few million.

It is divided into six sections which include:
- an overview of the distribution process, which describes the many channels for distributing a film, creating a realistic strategy, and approaching and assessing distributors and sales agents.
- creating your printed materials and deliverables, such as creating a poster, screener, trailer, and a complete film in different formats
- publicizing your film, from working with a publicist to doing it yourself; topics covered include creating press releases, a press kit, and a media portfolio, and contacting the media
- entering film festivals, including deciding which festivals to enter, upping your chances of getting in, and increasing your ability to get awards and attention
- arranging for theatrical screenings, from setting up screenings and making deals to building an audience
- making contacts at the AFM, whether you attend or make connections from afar.

The book is drawn from the author's experiences in distributing and promoting her own feature film, attending festivals and conferences, going to the AFM, helping clients who have set up theatrical screenings, and doing research on recent developments and trends in distribution.
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The Complete Guide to Finding Distributors and Sales Agents for Your Film

The Complete Guide to Finding Distributors and Sales Agents for Your Film

by Gini Graham Scott PhD
The Complete Guide to Finding Distributors and Sales Agents for Your Film

The Complete Guide to Finding Distributors and Sales Agents for Your Film

by Gini Graham Scott PhD

Overview

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FINDING DISTRIBUTORS AND SALES AGENTS FOR YOUR FILM provides a step-by-step guide for setting up distribution for your film. It is the same book as THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO DISTRIBUTING AN INDIE FILM with another title and cover image, which will be replacing this one. The book is designed primarily for independent filmmakers who are distributing their first few films with budgets ranging from under $200,000 to a few million.

It is divided into six sections which include:
- an overview of the distribution process, which describes the many channels for distributing a film, creating a realistic strategy, and approaching and assessing distributors and sales agents.
- creating your printed materials and deliverables, such as creating a poster, screener, trailer, and a complete film in different formats
- publicizing your film, from working with a publicist to doing it yourself; topics covered include creating press releases, a press kit, and a media portfolio, and contacting the media
- entering film festivals, including deciding which festivals to enter, upping your chances of getting in, and increasing your ability to get awards and attention
- arranging for theatrical screenings, from setting up screenings and making deals to building an audience
- making contacts at the AFM, whether you attend or make connections from afar.

The book is drawn from the author's experiences in distributing and promoting her own feature film, attending festivals and conferences, going to the AFM, helping clients who have set up theatrical screenings, and doing research on recent developments and trends in distribution.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780692365069
Publisher: Changemakers Publishing
Publication date: 01/07/2015
Pages: 174
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Gini Graham Scott has published over 50 books with mainstream publishers, focusing on social trends, work and business relationships, and personal and professional development. She has previously written three books on films: The Complete Guide to Writing, Producing, and Directing a Low-Budget Short Film (Limelight Books), Finding Funds for Your Films or TV Projects (Hal Leonard) and Marketing Films to Millennials and Baby Boomers (Changemakers Publishing). She has written this book based on her experience in distributing her feature film Suicide Party: Save Dave and doing extensive research on finding and working with distributors and sales agents.

She has gained extensive media interest for previous books, including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah, Montel Williams, CNN, and hundreds of radio interviews. She has frequently been quoted by the media and has set up websites to promote her most recent books, featured at www.ginigrahamscott.com and www.changemakerspublishingandwriting..com. As of this writing, she has about 75,000 listings in Google Search Results.

She has become a regular Huffington Post blogger since December 2012, and has a Facebook page featuring her books and films at www.facebook.com/changemakerspublishing.

She has written, produced, and sometimes directed over 60 short videos, which are featured on her Changemakers Productions website at www.changemakersproductions.com and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/changemakersprod.

Her screenplays, mostly in the drama, crime, legal thriller, and sci-fi genres, include several that are in pre-production: Deadly Affair and Rich and Dead. Other scripts include The New Child, New Identity, and Dead No More which are in development with trailers and business plans.

She has a PhD in sociology from U.C. Berkeley and MAs in anthropology, pop culture and lifestyles, organizational/consumer/audience behavior, and recreation and tourism from Cal State, East Bay. She is obtaining an additional MA in communications in 2016.

Additional bio and promotional material is at her websites at www.ginigrahamscott.com and www.changemakerspublishingandwriting.com.
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