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Amazon Prime has continued to drop their royalty rates, sadly, for those who have their movies available for free to Prime Subscribers. They dropped the royalty rate 3 times in 2020 (!). Now one has to have a CER of perhaps 75% to get more than .01 per hour viewed. It's ridiculous. They appear...

Having a PR background has definitely helped Ava DuVernay; she understands marketing, press, etc. For those that may not know, she self-released her last film ("I Will Follow") via a deal with AMC Independent into (AMC) theaters, through her company mentioned in the story above, African...

My strong advice on this, is to not email, but call. Have your "elevator pitch" ready in case you get the acquisitions person, or their assistant. Once you call, if they THEN tell you to email them, okay. But don't start out this way. (Do you have any idea how many emails people get daily...

+1 directorik makes a very good point, that seems to elude most filmmakers doing the festivals. What is your goal? This goes not just for shorts, but features too. (i.e., besides "distribution" that feature filmmakers want and need, there's more to the festival arena than that.) Thinking about...

For someone looking to raise money and/or package, true. (For those with completed films, calling is better than emailing.) That's a lengthy conversation, I can't really tackle that in "print" here. Certainly not in full. One thing many producers do, is to package their projects, for both...

Most documentaries will benefit in one way or another from festival exposure. Doesn't mean you'll get a distribution deal, but it does increase the chances. And if you work at getting press coverage when in festivals, this will help enormously. Good luck! JC

VivaChiba, I am willing to entertain distribution questions; my preferred method is via phone (or Skype) for a few minutes. While I could do that here on this board every now and then, I can't commit to being available here whenever a question comes up. There's so much on my plate -- and no...

You're welcome, VivaChiba. Yes, there are a few books out on the market, but I find they miss the mark. There's always going to be a certain amount of info that's good -- assuming the book is not out-of-date. But frankly, there's only one book that's ever been published (by a colleague of mine)...

Yes, I just mentioned it in a post in another thread. One can utilize the embeddable players from these sites to put your film anywhere online, including Facebook: DynamoPlayer.com, FlickLaunch.com, Distrify.com People can then pay & watch right from wherever you've put your film. (I'm not...

There is a shift happening, but the internet revenues are (as of end of 2011) only 10-15% of the revenues of physical DVDs & Blu-rays. There are less rental stores for movies, no question. But the DVD/Blu-ray market last year was $15.6 Billion. And this market is projected to remain stable in...

Absolutely true. Most of these distributors who only do VOD (cable/satellite/telco) and internet do not do any marketing/advertising. It's up to the filmmaker.

Hi VivaChiba, The value of anything is generally borne out by it's use and/or effectiveness. No, my course isn't cheap in some people's eyes. But to say this is grossly over-priced, without having taken my course... I don’t know what value system you’re using to make that judgment. Not everyone...

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Here's a little tip, to gauge which digital platform sites like IndieFlix and so many others can do for you... Go to one of the traffic stat websites (like Compete.com or Alexa.com), and look up the URL's of these film sites. Do they get a lot of regular traffic, or very little? Some digital...