Filmmakers are Mad as Hell and are not Going to Take it Anymore
source: http://arincrumley.com/first-get-mad-at-diy-days-then-all-will-fall-into-place
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Filmmaker and entrepreneur Arin Crumley incites a crowd at the recent New York DIY Days event. The traveling DIY Days forum brings filmmakers and film industry professionals together in series of seminars and talks aimed at independent film distribution. Arin and then girlfriend, Susan Buice, made the feature film Four Eyed Monsters in 2005. They successfully distributed it themselves using social networks to generate interest and to gather email lists and zip codes, which they in turned used to present to theaters that they cold called.
They ended up with a number of theaters across the country screening their film.
Now Arin has teamed up with web designer, Kieran Masterton, to make a website that will allow filmmakers to do the same thing at http://openindie.com. There filmmakers can post their film and make it available for people to sign up and demand a screening for it. After that, people can hold screenings in areas where people have signed up and even can keep some of the box office profits. I expect with lists of people demanding to see a film, the filmmaker can go to theaters and try to book screenings.
Theaters typically screen a film for a few weeks. But most nights there are only a handful of people in the theater. With this model of people signing up to see a film, the filmmakers can book a theater on just a few nights instead of every night for weeks at a time and can guarantee an audience of however many people have signed up. Arin and Susan booked their film just on four Thursdays in September and had well over a thousand people come to see their film.
With indie films, screenings are rare and people who love them will clamor to get to these screenings. The model is quite genius and has been proven to work.
What do you think? Would you sign up to see my film, Got Healthcare? (http://gothealthcaremovie.com)?
They ended up with a number of theaters across the country screening their film.
Now Arin has teamed up with web designer, Kieran Masterton, to make a website that will allow filmmakers to do the same thing at http://openindie.com. There filmmakers can post their film and make it available for people to sign up and demand a screening for it. After that, people can hold screenings in areas where people have signed up and even can keep some of the box office profits. I expect with lists of people demanding to see a film, the filmmaker can go to theaters and try to book screenings.
Theaters typically screen a film for a few weeks. But most nights there are only a handful of people in the theater. With this model of people signing up to see a film, the filmmakers can book a theater on just a few nights instead of every night for weeks at a time and can guarantee an audience of however many people have signed up. Arin and Susan booked their film just on four Thursdays in September and had well over a thousand people come to see their film.
With indie films, screenings are rare and people who love them will clamor to get to these screenings. The model is quite genius and has been proven to work.
What do you think? Would you sign up to see my film, Got Healthcare? (http://gothealthcaremovie.com)?
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reeleyes
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YEAH!!!!!!!!!i love it, and and i will use it, thanks to great ideas there might be hope for real art, ....dare i say the human race.
- 2 years ago
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reeleyes
