Film Production

10 Tips for Promoting a Local Screening of Your Film describes some ways to promote a local screening. It suggests different promotional strategies for putting on your own event or helping an organization promote your screening. Then, the audiobook focuses on how to use Eventbrite and Meetup to sign-up attendees and receive advance payments. The audiobook is formatted like a journal, so listeners can write down their ideas for what to do after reading each tip.

10 Tips for Making a Final to Do List for Distributing Your Film summarizes the key tasks to do to successfully distribute your film. It features key marketing and promotion tasks, such as creating a poster, trailer, and press materials, setting up a website or page on your website for the film, making arrangements with a website, and more. The book is part of a series of short books, in which each book features tips and techniques for becoming more successful in the film industry.

10 Tips for Making Your Own Distribution Arrangements for Your Film describes how you can distribute your film through various online video platforms including aggregators and your own website. It discusses the different types of video platforms, including third-party aggregators and video on demand (VOD) sales platforms.

10 Tips for Setting Up Local Screenings of Your Film describes how to set up a series of local screenings in your community and nearby cities if you are doing your own distribution. It describes how to determine your audience, select the best location for your screening, find a venue, and attract an audience. It also describes how to collect payments, run the program, and build on these showings to gain an even bigger audience at future showings.

10 Tips for Setting Up Local Screenings for Your Film describes how to set up a series of local screenings in your community and nearby cities if you are doing your own distribution. It describes how to determine your audience and the best location for your screening, how to find a venue, and how attract an audience. It also describes how to collect payments, run the program, and build on these showings to gain even more of an audience for future showings.

10 Tips for Setting Up Theatrical Screening for Your Film describes how to set up a series of screening after your initial premiere. It suggests doing these additional screenings to get more recognition for a film with broad appeal, and it describes how and where to select theaters in different cities. It indicates the kinds of costs to expect for showings in different types of theaters and recommends creating a marketing plan to guide you in doing these screenings to gain more recognition to help with the other types of distribution you do.

10 Ways to Find a Distributor for Your Film describes how to best pitch your script to distributors, starting with having a good script, writing an effective query letter, creating a short treatment or synopsis, and taking steps to make your script stand out. The audiobook is part of a series of short books, in which each book features tips and techniques for becoming more successful in the film industry.

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During his lifetime, Brian Gari has had many "Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind", and this audiobook, based on the popular Bear Manor Media book, gives the low-down on many of the people he has met over the years, including Eddie Cantor, Robin Williams, George Carlin, Chris Rock, Rodney Dangerfield, Danny Thomas, Soupy Sales, Jerry Stiller, Katherine Hepburn, Mia Farrow, Georgie Jessel, John Lennon and the Beatles, Little Richard, Brian Wilson, Phil Spector, Neil Sedaka, Jan and Dean, and many more!

10 Tips for Creating Promotional Video for Your Screening describes the different types of promotional materials to create. It discusses creating flyers, announcements, press releases, and social media posts. It describes the different places to promote your screening, including the newsletters of local organizations, trade fairs, and announcements at referral and networking groups.

10 Tips for Making the Arrangements for a Local Screening describes in detail how to set up a local screening. It explains how to choose a location, venue, and date, as well as determine costs and what to charge....

10 Tips for Creating a Promotional Video from Your Screening describes how to work with a videographer and video editor to create a promotional video from your screening to further promote your film. It explains what you can expect to pay and what to film. It also suggests how to provide input for editing the video and how to use the video for promotion.

10 Tips for Arranging an Initial Theatrical Screening to Gain Press and Distributor Interest describes how to set up a screening. It indicates what you need to prepare, such as a press kit, trailer, and screener, and how to how arrange for a theater and attract an audience. It suggests ways to get the press and distributors to attend.

10 Legal Basics for Getting a Distribution Deal describes the different provisions that are commonly included in a contract for distributing a film. It details the rights you are licensing and the obligations you have in return for what the distributor will do in releasing your film. It lists the many documents you need to supply and suggestions on what you can’t or can negotiate, such as the cost of marketing fees, the term of the agreement, and the requirement for insurance on your film.

10 Keys to Making a Low-Cost Documentary Feature describes a low-cost approach for producing a feature-length documentary with a budget under $50,000. It features an approach I have used that combines interviews with interviewees and experts along with B-roll shots of activities to use with voice-overs from the interviews. It also suggests ways to find interviewees, obtain funding for the film, and more.The book is formatted like a journal, so readers can write down their ideas for what to do after reading each tip.

Knowledge Blaster!: Guide to the Movies covers the films, stars, directors, and legends that have made Hollywood the world capital of entertainment. Here, you'll find facts of interest to movie buffs, game show contestants, and the man in the street. From Oscar winners to stars' real names, this material is sure to spark your interest.

10 Tips for Increasing Your Chances of Getting into Film Festivals describes how to select the festivals where you have the best chance for being selected and suggests ways to up the likelihood your film will be selected. Some of the strategies described include entering early, writing compelling letters and press releases to show how your film is aligned with the goals of the festival, and more.

10 Tips for Increasing Your Chances of Getting Attention and Awards at Film Festivals describes how to get more attention and awards by using various strategies to increase attendance and press coverage. It suggests ways to make more connections when you are there or using a surrogate to represent you. It recommends different techniques you can use online and in creating flyers, posters, and other materials to promote your festival screening.

10 Keys for Doing Your Own Film Distribution describes the many advantages of doing your own distribution when you haven’t found a distributor, or to help you find a distributor. It also provides an overview of the many different platforms for distributing your film, from contacting retail channels, to setting up your own showings and selling off your website.

10 Legal Basics for Producing a Feature Film or Documentary describes the major legal documentaries you need to produce a feature-length film or documentary. It covers the basics of getting a fictitious name, filing for a copyright, obtaining E&O and other types of insurance, creating release forms for actors, interviewees, crew members, and other film participants, and much more.