Welcome to our annual Slamdance Film Festival infographic, in which we visualize data that provides insight into the current landscape of the independent film industry. Be sure to read Adam Leipzig’s related article, Independent Films 2020: The Widening Gyre Share this Image On Your Site — Copy and Paste the Code Below<p><strong>Please include attribution …
Love Dot Com: The Social Experiment, a new film produced by Cultural Weekly/Next Echo foundation community member B.K. Fulton, will be available on iTunes on November 19. You can pre-order it now here: http://bit.ly/LoveDotCom In Love Dot Com, Shelby Quinn (Brave Willians) is a Social Justice Food Warrior working to uplift her gentrifying community. Anything …
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$13 million. $14 million. $15 million. Numbers most if us didn’t expect to see at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. But there those numbers were, along with a host of others in the millions, proffered by Amazon and Netflix, New Line and Neon and HBO. As one smaller distributor said to me at the Brunch …
This year it is harder than ever to calibrate the state of independent film. But Adam Leipzig does it anyway.
Since the Academy announced last week that they were changing the Oscars, I and many others in the film industry have been awaiting for clarifications. They haven’t come yet. While the clarifications will certainly come, and soon, so people can plan their Academy Award release strategies and campaigns, I’m sure one reason is the announcement …
And the Oscar Goes to… Uncertainty in the Face of Change Read More »
For the myriad filmmakers descending on Park City this week we have good news and bad.
Congratulations! You just finished your movie, which puts you at the edge of the winner’s circle—lots of people start movies and are never able to bring them out of post-production to the light of day. You finished yours. You made it micro-budget, for $400,000, and it’s awesome, or so your friends tell you. Your investors …
Let’s face it: the film industry is in transition. With so many movies going straight to VOD and big studios and financiers only wanting name actors attached to projects before putting forth any capital, it makes it really hard for the independent feature to get off the ground. I’m not talking Noah Baumbach independent features …
$4.6 Billion Invested in Indies; Nearly All Festival Films Get Distribution Congratulations Sundance filmmakers! You have a 4 in 5 chance of getting a distribution deal. That’s one key finding from our data-crunching preparation for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. As recently as 2010, getting distribution at Sundance was rare. In that year, as in …
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Inside Track for Independent Filmmakers, my new book that gives step-by-step instructions for filmmakers to get their movies made and seen, shares important tips on the newest distribution frontier. Call it Free Range Distribution, which captures the energy and Wild West experience you’ll find here. (It’s a term I learned from my friends at Seed …
Free Range Distribution It’s Viable for Sundance and Slamdance Films Read More »
Adam Leipzig’s acclaimed book helps independent filmmakers turn the tables on Hollywood with 99 step-by-step tips [alert type=alert-white ]VISIT THE OFFICIAL INSIDE TRACK SITE HERE[/alert] After an unprecedented run as a self-published book, Adam Leipzig’s Inside Track for Independent Filmmakers: Get Your Move Made, Get Your Movie Seen is now available with updated information, from …
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