Posts Tagged ‘Film’

Film POP! TV: Food, Inc.

Posted on March 5th, 2010 by by Leslie Poston

Found a quick review of Food, Inc. in our film review vault. We love doing these quick mini reviews of our opinion on a film and, when appropriate, its marketing for you. We squeeze them into our schedules as we can, and it looks like this one was on a busy day when we were [...]

NHFF film Marketing Panel 2009

Posted on February 25th, 2010 by by Leslie Poston

Chase Bailey, Leslie Poston, Amy Greenlaw at NHFF 2009 on film marketing for the indie filmmaker:

note: video compressed to iPhone size – full size, HD video available on request

Mark Constance On NH Tax Benefit Model vs MA Film Tax Credit

Posted on February 17th, 2010 by by Leslie Poston

In this portion of our interview, local producer Mark Constance talks about the difference between NH up front benefits to filmmakers versus the MA Film Tax Credit:

Even The New York Times Is Singing The DIY Chorus

Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by by Leslie Poston

From the article, by Manohla Dargis:
“It is time to blow the whole thing up.” In September 1960, when those words were lobbed at the world by a New York-centric, off-Hollywood circle of malcontents called the New American Cinema Group, there was no mistaking their radical urgency. Given the cold war times — one of the [...]

Filmmakers Catching The DIY Wave At Slamdance

Posted on January 24th, 2010 by by Leslie Poston

We’ve been singing the gospel of DIY Film Marketing at Film POP! since day one, and love seeing the wave catching on. Two people who have been just as passionate and vocal about the DIY bootstrap concepts in film marketing as well, Jon Reiss and Ted Hope, are doing some great things to get their [...]

Competition, Crowdsourcing, Content Creation in Film

Posted on January 4th, 2010 by by Leslie Poston

As I was looking at the site TrailerWars yesterday, I started thinking of all the ways sites like this one could be used by people in the film industry. For the end user it seems like just a fun way to pass the time, but for the filmmaker, the actor and the crew, competition sites [...]

NYC’s Indie Film Finance Festival 2010: Workshop

Posted on January 3rd, 2010 by by Leslie Poston

We’re bringing our DIY Indie Film Marketing Workshop series to New York City in March 2010! We’ll be holding it at the NYC Indie Film Finance Conference on March 26 and 27, 2010, and you can sign up for the Film POP! Workshop at a discounted conference rate here.
Even if you have attended the [...]

DIY Indie Film Marketing Workshop Slides

Posted on December 27th, 2009 by by Leslie Poston

I thought I’d throw the slides up from our most recent DIY Indie Film Marketing Workshop. Each workshop will have a new set of slides with completely new, relevant and timely information, custom fitted to the attendees. You can demand this workshop in your town on the half day indie marketing workshop page here. [...]

Finding Pivot Points In Film Marketing

Posted on December 27th, 2009 by by Leslie Poston

So often I get filmmakers, actors and others in the industry (and in the music industry) who tell me they haven’t started adding online tools to their film arsenal because the tools change so fast they don’t know what to invest in. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the tools and lose sight of [...]

Register For Nashua Workshop: Indie Film Marketing On A Shoestring

Posted on November 25th, 2009 by by Leslie Poston

Workshop: Indie Film Marketing On A Shoestring

In today’s rapidly changing film world, finding and engaging each film’s audience online and offline is imperative. Gone are the days when filmmakers could depend on a studio to do their marketing for them. Filmmakers are true artists, sometimes getting lost in their artistic vision and forgetting to save [...]