This week I had an interesting conversation with an ambitious young filmmaker, Karl-Martin Pold, who is working on a documentary about the life of the famous Italian actor Bud Spencer. The movie is in its early stages and has neither secured financing nor crew. However, Karl has got consent to do an interview with Bud [...]
A few days ago we read the following tweet on @stephenfry’s Twitter:
Pay a £ and be a producer, what could be simpler? Good luck to these people – brilliant idea, charmingly implemented: http://buyacredit.com/
This tweet made us curious and we clicked the link. And what we found there is 100 % AWESOME:
BUYACREDIT.COM is a ground-breaking new [...]
Well done, Timo! We just read that Iron Sky (we wrote about this movie before, read our article here) received the remaining €800,000.00 to from the Finnish Film Foundation as a grant, completing the €4.2 Million budget.
This is a huge budget for a Finnish movie. They have successfully been leveraging their online audience to gain [...]
This is nothing new – letting audiences organise screenings. Four Eyed Monsters did it, anyone can organise a screening for Sita Sings the Blues, and it is something we recommend to every filmmaker. But now this is gaining so much traction that there is a whole new site devoted to this: UK-based IndieScreenings.
With IndieScreenings, audiences [...]
A couple of weeks ago our own Matthew Kerr sent me this video of Seth Godin talking about social media marketing, actually, but not really. Watch it! If you haven’t quite gotten your head around Social Media and why they exist, and what the whole point is, this will really clear some things up. And [...]
