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Dear Collaborators,

Summer is almost here and TFC films are premiering at film festivals here, there and everywhere! Plus, our Fiscal Sponsorship program is going strong. Our Digital Flat-Fee program is once again able to include Netflix! We have a new blog post out today about NYC Theatrical Releases and New York Times reviews. And don’t forget to check out our other recent blog posts on Spotlight on IndieFlix and EU Digital Single Market. And, of course, TIDBITS!

All best,

— The Film Collaborative




 

Festival News

 
    TFC congratulates our longtime client Jeffrey Schwarz on being selected as this year’s recipient of the Frameline Award at Frameline39 next month. TFC is handling worldwide Festival Distribution and worldwide Sales.

 
    More congratulations to another longtime TFCer, Daniel Raim, for the recent premiere of his newest film, Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story, at the Cannes Film Festival. TFC is advising on Sales and Festival Distribution.

 
    Our film THOSE PEOPLE recently had its World Premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival. Additional TFC films at SIFF include THE NEW MAN, TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL, and THE ROYAL ROAD.

 
    TFC films THE HUNTING GROUND and LANDFILL HARMONIC are slated to have their European Premieres at Sheffield Doc/Fest in early June.

 
    TFC client films BORN THIS WAY, 1971, and member LIMITED PARTNERSHIP are premiering on PBS’ Independent Lens in the course of this month and next.

 
    Our Sundance-award winning film (T)ERROR will be showing at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in NYC in early June.

 
    The 2015 North American LGBT film festival “jewel fests” continue later this month in Toronto with the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Festival, with TFC films TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL, THOSE PEOPLE, WHILE YOU WEREN’T LOOKING, SEED MONEY: THE CHUCK HOLMES STORY, and THE ROYAL ROAD. We love Toronto!
 

 

TFC Fiscal Sponsorship



TFC has added quite a few Fiscal Sponsorship projects since the start of 2015. We hope that you will consider supporting one or more of them. If any of you have new projects, our Fiscal Sponsorship program offers some of the lowest rates out there, so be sure to check it out.

 
 

21 Percent
DIR./PROD. Enissa Acevedo
Feature Doc
 

Adeline
DIR. Tiffanie Tsu
PROD. Pin-Chun Liu, Domenica Castro
Narrative Short
 

At the End
of the Day

DIR. Kevin O'Brien
PROD. Kevin O'Brien, Philip Marlatt
Feature Doc
 
 

Bernard
and Huey

DIR. Dan Mirvish
SCR. Jules Feiffer
Narrative Feature
 

Cheers of Joy
DIR./PRO. Nancy Frohman
Feature Doc
 

Dakar Vert Environmental Film Festival
Festival Directors Heidi Hoerig, PhD, Ousmane N. Keita, Lauren Gibbs
Film Festival
 
 

A Doorway to Joe
DIR. Scott Gracheff
PROD. James Muscarella
Feature Doc
 

Downtown
Los Angeles Film Festival

Festival Director Greg Placek
Film Festival
 

Normal Valid Lives
DIR. Gorman Bechard
PROD. Gorman Bechard, Jan Radder, Stephen Handwerk
Feature Doc
 
 

The R-Word
DIR./PROD. Amanda Lukoff
PROD. Amanda Lukoff, Daniel Egan
Feature Doc
 

Utopia, TX
DIR. Katharine Mahalic
PROD. Pete Ryan, Katharine Mahalic
Feature Doc

 

TFC Digital Distribution

 
    We are pleased to announce that our flat-fee program now can once again include Netflix. E&O insurance required, $1K additional fee. For new films only with a robost marketing presence, sizable theatrical release and name-brand recognition. For more information, please see our TFC Digital Distribution Page.  

 

Tidbits You May Have Missed…

  • Before you fall in love with that music cue for your film, better find out if you can afford it. This and other details can be found in A Filmmaker’s Guide to Music Rights.
  • How is the current climate for international film sales? Well, it depends on what countries you mean.
  • The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating exclusivity agreements between American film distributors and the largest exhibition chains.