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Think Outside the Box Office:Distribution & Marketing Intensive

Scribe Video Center
Philadelphia, PA

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Think Outside the Box Office:Distribution & Marketing Intensive

WHAT: PIFVA and Scribe Video Center present Think Outside the Box Office: Distribution & Marketing Intensive. Jon Reiss: Instructor

WHEN: Sunday, January 29 from 9am - 4:30

WHERE: Scribe Video Center, 4212 Chestnut St, 3rd Fl., Philadelphia, PA

COST: PIFVA/Scribe Members: $25; General: $50

PART ONE: Creating a Strategy for Your Film, 9:30 am -12 , goes over how to create a distribution strategy and marketing plan unique to your film; the various available markets for your film's release; and how to engage your audience as early as possible.

PART TWO: A Redefinition of Film Products, 12:30-4:30 pm, covers: release options: theatrical, festival and alternative; maximizing live events; navigating the digital rights arena (VOD, streaming, aggregators/distributors, peer to peer networks) and transmedia.

Jon's books, Think Outside the Box Office: The Ultimate Guide to Film Distribution in the Digital Era and Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul (co-written with the Film Collaborative and Sheri Candler) will be available for purchase.

A critically acclaimed filmmaker, Jon Reiss has produced and directed three feature films, most recently, Bomb It, about graffiti and the battle over visual public space throughout the world. Based on his experience releasing Bomb It with a hybrid strategy, he has written Think Outside the Box Office: The Ultimate Guide to Film Distribution in the Digital Era and Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul. He created the concept of the Producer of Marketing and Distribution (PMD) in order to create a new crew member who would be in charge of a film's audience engagement and release. Jon Reiss previous work includes the features Better Living Through Circuitry and Cleopatra's Second Husband along with numerous music videos most notably for Nine Inch Nails, The Black Crowes and Slayer. Reiss also teaches film at Cal Arts.

Location

Scribe Video Center (View)
4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd Fl.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States

Contact

Owner: Philadelphia Independent Film/Video Association(PIFVA)

On BPT Since: Dec 27, 2011

Caroline Savage, Coordinator

www.pifva.org

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