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I need help: Where to find a film festival interested in having the world premiere for my second feature length documentary??

It's now being mixed to dolby Atmos as well as 5.1 surround sound and the DCP will of course have english subtitles.

(USP: voice tal...

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I need help: Where to find a film festival interested in having the world premiere for my second feature length documentary??

It's now being mixed to dolby Atmos as well as 5.1 surround sound and the DCP will of course have english subtitles.

Teaser:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33257921

(USP: voice talents of former Ingmar Bergman actors Stina Ekblad, Per Ragnar, and the internationally acclaimed opera singer Nina Stemme...)

Synopsis (sketch):

Nowadays the SEMITJOV family seems to be very much forgotten, but they were very influential and great contributors to Swedish culture and journalism. The engineer/author VLADIMIR arrives in Stockholm one hundred years ago -1923- as a refugee. He comes with his two sons, his pregnant wife and his old mum. They have fled famine, revolution and contra revolution in the Soviet Union and are now without food and money…Partly through Vladimir’s unique diary we follow the family’s hard struggle to establish in Sweden. It is a success story: Vladimir gets to help the then world-famous Mauritz Stiller to light the star of Greta Garbo with a true story from the family’s time in a refugee camp in Constantinople. The hard working Vladimir is also posthumously appointed as the greatest Swedish science fictionwriter of the 20s and 30s. During world war II the family’s oldest son -VOLODJA- becomes a war correspondent for the biggest newspaper in Sweden. He then changes career to film script writing and writes the internationally most successful Swedish film ever (the origin for the internationally spread idea about ”Swedish sin”.) The youngest son -EUGEN- born 1923, writes and draws the most internationally spread Swedish adventure comics, When the Space Age starts he changes career and becomes space journalist and wins the Big Journalist Award 1972.

I love hearing about different distribution strategies for films, and Art House films are particularly close to my heart.

Whether your films are Art House or not, the strategies for independent films highlighted here are worth taking note of. From the pre-screenings strategy, the appeal to local audi...

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Sam Sokolow

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7 months ago

And Gravitas comes right back with THE FIX. https://variety.com/2024/film/news/gravitas-ventures-the-fix-grace-van-d......

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Christopher Maes

I think it's important for independent filmmakers to find the right distributor for their project and do their best to keep as much of the net profits as possible on their side of the contract. After all, the indie filmmakers usually take on all the risk up-front.

Jack Binder

Always great to see distribution secured!!

Debbie Elicksen

Sam Sokolow What a compelling story. We do need more films that touch on the human experience.

Geoff Hall

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- Maurice Vaughan
7 months ago

Sam Sokolow “Are any of you working on an independent feature that you'd like to see distributed?” Yes, down the line, Seeing Rachel will be looking for distribution - and I’m happy to hear from Dan t...

Mike Boas

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- Maurice Vaughan
7 months ago

If you don’t have a poster, they can usually have one done for you and charge it against your income. Or recommend someone to hire.

Ewan Dunbar

Usually some form of artwork is a delivery item for the completed film but distributors will often either adapt this or create their own. This is why providing stills is also important when delivering your film.

Ronald Villegas Distribution isn't a one-size-fits-all. Distribution of a project is multi-layered but first, as the filmmaker, you need to have "pitch" materials to sell it to theatres, streamers, an...

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Some great advice here from the community. I agree that you need to be prepared with materials to share and set photots, all that that may get used, and that you can use to do some social marketing bu...

If you elect to design the poster yourself, or use a designer that you hire, the upside is that you can: control what you spend; have more control over the creative concept of the poster art; and crea...

Maurice Vaughan

7 months ago

I'm most excited about The Penguin, Sam Sokolow.

Ashley Renee Smith

From on MGM+ came back this past Sunday and I was SO EXCITED! I love that show. I've really been enjoying the trailers for High Potential, so I'm definitely going to check that one out. I'll also watc...

SEMITJOV sounds like such a powerful and fascinating film, Mïcke Engström. I have heard from a few friends in the doc world that the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam is a great fes...

Mïcke Engström

Thank you Sam. I'll check them out!

The film festival in Manchester (UK) I think does documentaries and there’s a big one in Amsterdam as well.

Thanks Ewan!!

Here’s the link for the trailer:

https://youtu.be/N3hjIK35nkY?

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- Maurice Vaughan
7 months ago

I am so with you, Geoff Hall - I believe we are entering an amazing era for independent film and innovative distribution strategies. I am all for them. Its great to work in the system, but the goal is...

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- Christopher Maes
- Maurice Vaughan
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Sam Sokolow thanks Sam. Arthaus and Aerofilms just fuel my imagination with the possibilities for Seeing Rachel. They have a great way of developing a broad view of possible markets for a film. The ar...