Since my initial plan with Amazon didn't work out due to their policy changes, I'm now having to go through a third party. I'm applying to Indie Rights first because I've heard they're easier to work with, but Film Hub will be my backup. My goal is to have my film on Amazon and Tubi, though paid on YouTube would be great too. Do any of you have experience working with either of these two companies, or another one that you prefer?
distribution Indie Rights or Film Hub?
- Thread starter Chris Tempel
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I have been using FILMHUB for several years and I highly recommend them. They have placed my films with so many companies that I have lost count...Tubi, Plex, Amazon, Paid youtube, Roku, Future Today, and DOZENS more. All of the specs and requirements are on their website and you UPLOAD your master, artwork, and captions to them. Indie rights requires that you send a hard drive, and if anything is not correct, you lose your hard drive and have to send another. If FILMHUB requires any changes, you simply make the changes and upload a corrected version. (And in most cases you WILL have to make a change or two). It costs you nothing to submit your film to Filmhub. They have a paid "upgrade" that I never went for because it is not necessary. FILMHUB has a large staff of sales people who will push your film to all sorts of theatrical, non-theatrical, and online sites. There is a provision for DVD sales as well. (But that is the one thing that you would have to pay for up front...I declined that one. I highly recommend Filmhub.
Thanks. I did go with Indie Rights because they seem to be a better fit for me. They can offer all the same stuff as Filmhub, and I actually like having to send in a hard drive as I live in the middle of nowhere Montana with a DSL connection. My "screener" version to get accepted took almost 15 hours, and that was 9GB. The master they wanted was a ProRes file that came out to be 100GB. The owners are currently at Cannes and promoting their existing library of films, so that's cool too.
I also like that Indie Rights helps teach you how to market. Yes, the marketing is on me (as it would be with Filmhub), but they do want to make money too, so they help train you. I like that.
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