The Film Collaborative August 2010 Newsletter

TFC congratulates our new client, Jennifer Arnold's documentary

A SMALL ACT

Already a hit at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival (amongst others), Jennifer Arnold's moving and inspirational documentary about the power we all possess to enact positive change in the world is a must see for all!

A SMALL ACT recently played on Opening Day of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and can still be seen in the Bay Area this weekend. In addition, folks nationwide can catch it on HBO this weekend. If you see this film and don't cry with joy, there is surely something wrong with you.

TFC is proud handling worldwide Festival Distribution for this marvelous film.

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TFC is starting to work with EggUP to be a back-end distribution partner for its filmmakers. EggUP says it is able to compliment your film with their secured DIY distribution platform to help you generate income, while providing you freedom to control, sell, and distribute your film.

Aug. 13th Fried Rice Feature Release
1.  Country Restrictions — choose and update which countries are restricted from viewing.
2.  Purchase outright — consumers have the options to rent and purchase.
3.  Paypal Adaptive Pay — filmmakers get paid in real time instead of 30 day pay.
4.  Embed Link — Allows you to add direct downloads to your site and other blogs.

For more info checkout their site and stay tuned for our experiential anecdotes.

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TFC is welcoming two new members to their advisory board: Rex Sikes, actor/producer radio host, and founder of Rex Sikes' Movie Beat “conversations with filmmakers” and Scott Maziroff, former senior vice president, production finance, The Weinstein Company.

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Check out the latest post to The Film Collaborative Blog: Theatrical: To Do…or Not To Do (or perhaps more, HOW and WHEN To Do).

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Finally, TFC has a wide extended family, so from time to time, we'd like to tell you about some of the amazing things they are doing…and how you can take advantage of them!

A message from our Lab Partner:

“Crest Digital is the one-stop-shop post house geared and priced for the indie filmmaker. We can take you from production through on-line finish using HD Avid and Final Cut (offline and online), an HD color correction suite, Visual Effects design with 3D capabilities, main and end-title capabilities and a Protools 5.1 mixing suite. Crest Digital’s skilled team can do any and all of it for you, or we offer affordable post production office space as well.

Once your film is complete, Crest Digital can provide all your dubs and deliverables for film festivals and distributors: including HD Cam SR, D5, HD Cam, DigiBeta and P2 formats. Our DVD/Blu-Ray encoding, menu design and authoring team and our Anaheim DVD replication and packaging facility can create and package your discs, complete with cover art and shrink wrap. Crest Digital also offers fulfillment services: shipping your orders to retail outlets around the country, and/or handling the encoding for digital delivery to VOD outlets such as Hulu, Amazon and iTunes. And to share your vision with the entire world, we also offer closed captioning, subtitling and dubbing in over 90 languages and dialects.”

For more information on the work Crest Digital did for THE OWLS, one of TFC's clients, check out our partner spotlight page.

A message to short filmmakers from Roberta Munroe:

“Join Roberta Munroe, former Sundance Short Film Programmer for a workshop like you've never experienced that is geared solely towards those wishing to create a short film. You'll learn from the best and brightest in the industry on how to write, produce, cast and post your film. You'll also learn how and where to submit to film festivals (and where not to submit) and of course you'll get a complete guide to the wide wide world of Short Film Distribution. This all day event is Saturday August 21st at The Writers Guild of America West.”

For more info: visit Roberta's website or call (323) 883-0191

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