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So You Want To Sell Your Screenplay…5 Ways To Get Your Script Noticed
Think that you’ve written the great American screenplay? Well, before Denzel and Halle agree to star in your filmic masterpiece, you’ve got to get a studio to buy it. This, of course, is easier said than done, especially if you don’t have an agent or manager representing you. However, there are steps you can take to get your work noticed without an elusive agent. Here are five things that you can do to get that script into the right hands.
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Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals Expand with Digital Distribution
(New York Times) — Two big film festival operators, Tribeca Enterprises and the Sundance Institute, are about to greatly expand their efforts to use technology to bring specialty movies to a national audience. For years, the business function of festivals was straightforward: create excitement for independent films, and hope that distributors acquire them for release.
But the rise of Web streaming and video-on-demand services freed festivals from their geographic limitations. Suddenly, the likes of Sundance, Tribeca and South by Southwest were experimenting with simultaneous film premieres at their festivals and on Web sites like YouTube or cable on-demand systems.
Now comes a new development — the end of experimentation and the start of full-fledged digital distribution efforts by festival operators. Tribeca plans on Monday to announce a significant expansion of its fledgling movie releasing arm, Tribeca Film, which was founded last year as a test in releasing movies both digitally and in theaters. Tribeca Film plans to increase its annual output to 26 pictures, up from 11.
Building an Alliance to Aid Films by Blacks
(New York Times) — Ava DuVernay, the filmmaker and publicist, imagines a time when black-theme pictures will flourish in places where African-American film festivals have already found eager viewers. Fifty such cities would be an ideal black-film circuit, Ms. DuVernay said. In March she will start with five. “I Will Follow,” which was written and directed by Ms. DuVernay and stars Salli Richardson-Whitfield (“I Am Legend,” “Black Dynamite”) as a woman sorting through memories of a dead aunt, is set to become the first film from the newly formed African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement. The plan is to put black-theme movies in commercial theaters, initially from the independent film program recently begun by the AMC theater chain, for a two-week run supported by social networks, mailing lists and other buzz-building services at the disposal of allied ethnic film festivals.
