Back in 2006 I sent Outfest a screener of DAMON AND HUNTER: DOING IT TOGETHER. They said no thanks. In 2007 I sent Outfest a screener of ASHLEY AND KISHA: FINDING THE RIGHT FIT. Again they said no thanks. And that’s the last I ever heard from Outfest. Until last week, when Outfest sent me [...]
Category Archives: distribution
Nipping at Leni’s Heels (It’s 10PM, do you now where your metadata is?)
May 22, 2009 – 10:01 am
Most of this last week has been spent trying to get the metadata for our titles sorted out at Amazon and the other big entertainment databases. There’s still a lot of work to do, but at the moment things appear to be trending in the right direction. It’s not the sort of work you think [...]
Potpourri
April 15, 2009 – 1:16 pm
In no particular order: Yes, I have thoughts about the AmazonFail thing. We track the way Amazon uses meta-data as closely as we can, and have seen some interesting shifts since the beginning of the year around sexuality. I am not unsympathetic to Amazon’s dilemma. If I ran a supermarket, I wouldn’t want incontinence supplies showing up in [...]
A few thoughts on the Newport Beach Film Festival (The curious case of Angelo Bell)
March 26, 2009 – 8:50 am
As information comes in, I am still cogitating on my “bigger picture” thoughts about this weird business of the Newport Beach Film Festival calling up Angelo Bell and telling him he’s “not the right kind of person.” But with each bit of new information, the shape shifts and it won’t gel yet. But I want to [...]
Jeffrey Goodman asks himself, “You think you’re indie?”
March 20, 2009 – 6:34 pm
Over at MovieMaker.com Jeffrey Goodman, director of the indie feature THE LAST LULLABY has been chronicling his adventures in gearing up to do his own theatric release of his film. And for the last few weeks I’ve been having a blog-comments conversation with him about the ins and outs self-distribution. Today I told Jeff about the [...]
How Film Festivals and Distribution Deals Kill Independent Films Part 3, A Room Full of Strangers
February 8, 2009 – 9:41 am
There wasn’t enough room in for the full title in the header, so for the benefit of clarity, here it is in all its verbose glory: How Film Festivals and Distribution Deals Kill Independent Films, Part 3 A Room Full of Strangers: Film Festivals that actually help independent filmmakers and what that means in a [...]
How Film Festivals and Distribution Deals Kill Independent Films: Part 2, A Tale of Two Indies
February 4, 2009 – 11:31 am
In yesterday’s post, I made the general case for how the indie film model — the festival circuit to get a distribution deal/theatrical run as a promotional event for DVD sales — hurts independent filmmakers. And by hurt I mean it’s a system that by its very nature puts filmmakers at a disadvantage in negotiations, and puts less [...]
How Film Festivals and Distribution Deals Kill Independent Films: Part 1
February 3, 2009 – 10:08 am
Back in 2001 when I shot MARIE AND JACK: A HARDCORE LOVE STORY I was, to put it mildly, rather naive about the indie film game. Silly me, I thought in a world where a serious approach to sex on screen was defined by aggressively sex-negative films from directors like Gaspar Noé and Catherine Breillat, the guileless earnestness and [...]
Coded Language and Knowing Looks, Part 1
November 24, 2008 – 6:37 pm
A couple years ago we entered into a non-exclusive distribution arrangement with a fairly well-know company that specializes in placing sexually explicit films in mainstream markets. This is the blurb they wrote for Matt and Khym: Better than Ever: “This adult instructional guide helps married couples rejuvenate their sex lives through the erotic experiences [...]
Thank Heavens for Warm Praise (in a Cold World)
November 14, 2008 – 10:00 am
“Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, [...]