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The Film Collaborative is proud to be launching our new legal services initiative. TFC LEGAL™, the initiative will offer business affairs and legal contract expertise to filmmakers looking for help with distribution deals. The Los Angeles- and New York-based law firm of Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson is spearheading the program for TFC Legal, which will offer legal services for a flat fee rather than billing by the hour. Click here to read our press release.

TFC is proud to announce a new partnership with Watch It (www.GoWatchIt.com), a new free service that allows users to search and queue movies. Users can discover where a movie is currently playing, whether in theaters, on DVD/Blu-ray, online or On Demand. They can also save the film to a universal queue to receive alerts when it becomes available on their preferred services. Check out the TFC Channel on the Watch It site. All of TFC’s roster of clients, past and present, are included in this channel. For more, go here.

TFC expanding our "FestSelects" brand with a new initiative to help distribute LGBT films globally in a more cost-effective, efficient manner. Read more about it here.

TFC is proud to announce its new Fiscal Sponsorship Program, available to all filmmakers who have joined our team of filmmakers. Fiscal Sponsorship provides filmmakers with non-profit 501(c)(3) status for their project and enables them to secure funding from foundation, government or corporate sources, or private sources that give only to nonprofit organizations with IRS tax-exempt status.

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• TFC will also be at at the Vancouver Workshop entitled Market, Motivate, Mobilze: Digital Marketing for People Involved in Screen-Based Production on March 14 and 15, 2013.
• Sheri Candler will be the special guest at a workshop in Winnepeg by Canada’s Independent Production Fund entitled, Market, Motivate, Mobilze: Digital Marketing for People Involved in Screen-Based Production on February 22, 2013.
• TFC was on a panel at the Pan African Film Festival on February 9, 2013 in Los Angeles
• Sheri Candler spoke at a workshop for iFeatures2 participants in Nottingham, UK. The same presentation given in Copenhagen at the Danish Directors Association on November 16, 2012 and at the annual meeting of the creen Directors Guild of Ireland on November 21, 2012 in Dublin. If you'd like to see Sheri's presentation files on Slideshare, click here.
• Jeffrey Winter spoke about Worldwide Film Festival Initiatives at the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs on October 18.
• Jeffrey Winter spoke at Digital Hollywood on October 17, 2012.
• TFC is invited to speak at Strategic Partners 2012 at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 13-16, 2012.
• TFC is invited to speak at the Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, July 20-25, 2012.
• TFC is invited to Sheffield Doc/Fest.
• TFC is invited to the Cannes Producer Workshop.
• TFC is presenting at the Cannes ShortFilm Corner.
• TFC is invited to give a presentation about Digital Distribution at the Binger Filmlab Master Class in Cannes.
• Orly Ravid attended the NALIP Latino Media Market on April 13 & 14.
• TFC's Jeffrey Winter will be taking part in a panel in Palm Springs on Sat., March 31 on Marketing Your Film on the Internet.
• TFC's Orly Ravid moderated a SXSW panel entitled How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love VOD, on Monday March 12. You can still download a pdf of the PowerPoint presentation file here.

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We've set up FOUR external sites to help filmmakers navigate through the minefield that is film distribution and digital distribution.

• The newest addition to distripedia™, Resource Place provides a one-stop-shop for a plethora of resources geared especially for filmmakers, such as post-production, social marketing, online distribution, and more.
• Our Digital Distribution Guide provides an overview and insight into the myriad of digital platforms out there. You'll need to join TFC to access this guide.
• The TFC Blog, written by the TFC staff, focuses on what's new in the world of digital distribution and other topic of interest to filmmakers.
• Our newest forum, which we're calling Distributor ReportCard™. It's your chance to SCHOOL THE DISTRIBUTORS! This wiki (free account required to post comments, and accounts are anonymous by default) provides a space to write reviews, share your experiences and learn from other filmmakers' and producers' successes or mistakes.

Click here to learn more.

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