A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling

What is transmedia storytelling and what can it do for you? It’s the buzzword for a new generation—a revolutionary technique for telling stories across multiple media platforms and formats—and it’s rapidly becoming the go-to strategy for a wide variety of businesses. If you work in marketing, entertaining, or advertising, transmedia storytelling is a must-have tool for pulling people into your world.

Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul

Think Outside the Box Office

The book is a break through step-by-step nuts and bolts guide to distributing and marketing a film. Each chapter addresses an essential aspect of a film s release and offers specific techniques so filmmakers can take control of their distribution and marketing destiny.

Baseline Intelligence Cost and Revenue Reports

Screen Australia budget templates

Though these are mainly for Australian producers, much of these templates can be used by anyone

Telefilm Canada

lots of forms and guidelines available predominantly for Canadian productions, but anyone can use the templates

UNCTV Producer's Guide

Budget proposal form pdf

Crowdfunding Bible

The Crowdfunding Bible shows you how to launch, market and successfully operate a high-tech fundraising campaign, regardless of your chosen industry, scope or budget.

Crowdfunding for Filmmakers

Crowdrise

Flattr

How to crack the Kickstarter code

IndieGoGo

International

Kachingle

Kickstarter

U.S. Only

Kickstarter For Filmmakers

The Kickstarter Handbook

Pozible

Australia

Pozible

UK

Rockethub

U.S. and Canada

Seed&Spark

We made Seed&Spark to bring fair trade to filmmaking. It's an 80%-or-nothing crowdfunding method. That means once you have reached 80% of your fundraising goal, we give you the Green Light, and guarantee the release of funds to you.

Copycats Media

For almost a decade, COPYCATS has helped clients produce professional DVD & CD Duplication and Replication projects.

Discmakers

Everything in house: from glass mastering and replication to printing, packaging, and poly wrap. Plus, other services like authoring, encoding, graphic design, and menu design.

Gathr

Small towns now can get first-run films--for a night--with the help of Gathr, a new "theatrical on demand" service.

Tugg

Bringing the movies you want to your local theater

Devolver Digital

Devolver’s partnership with Cable VOD leader Lightning Entertainment will combine the prowess of Lightning’s longstanding partnerships in home entertainment with Devolver Digital’s expertise in reaching new audiences via media devices and digital outlets primarily regarded as gaming platforms.

Distribber

Filmbinder

Purchase bandwidth in either 20 or 240 GB chunks, paid in advance and filmmaker receives roughly 77% of revenue.

The Film Collaborative

Direct digital

Gravitas

Might Entertainment

They work with Lionsgate (though just 1 fee), very selective leaning toward commercial.

New Video

SnagFilms

Lee Krugman, Krugman Associates Inc.

TFC members receive a discount but prices vary and are based pending the budget and other variables.

Momentous Insurance Brokerage, Inc.

TFC members receive a discount but prices vary and are based pending the budget and other variables.

Volusion

All in one ecommerce solution. Sell your merchandise directly to your fans.

Binger Filmlab

Binger Filmlab is an Amsterdam based international feature-film and documentary development centre.

DIY Days

FREE to participants and organized by volunteers – DIY Days is about the accessibility of ideas, resources and networking that can enable creators to fund, create, distribute and sustain.

DOK Incubator

DOK.Incubator is a new training initiative providing support to European documentaries in a rough cut stage. It is open to teams – producer, director and film editor – working on a strong and creative documentary with promising international potential.

Film Independent

The Film Independent Forum is a weekend packed with unbridled truth, inspirational success stories and a chance to connect one on one with working artists who are thriving in changing times.

IFP

A unique year-long mentorship program for first-time feature directors focusing exclusively on low-budget features (<$1million).

Living Spirit Pictures

Training courses for directors, screenwriters, producers and documentary filmmakers based in London.

London Film Academy

LFA runs professional-standard practical training in all the key areas of filmmaking. All tutors are working professionals.

Maine Media

Our filmmaking program is known around the world for its hands-on style, top-tier equipment, and award-winning faculty. Learn from the best on the best equipment while enjoying the unparalleled beauty of coastal Maine.

Met Film School

London based, weekend course designed to provide a fun, hands-on introduction to the basics of direction, sound and editing and will equip you with basic technical knowledge in each of these areas.

National Screen Institute

Based in Winnipeg Canada. After more than 25 years of training and with over 720 alumni, NSI continues to develop and deliver courses to meet the industry’s needs.

Raindance

Raindance tutors are all working industry professionals who will teach you how films are really made. You will have access to insider information, and most importantly you will meet other filmmakers, all working towards similar goals.

Addict-o-matic

Google Analytics

Vizibility

Online Identity Calculator. Tip: Log out of Google mail first.

Website Grader

Booshaka

app to identify your most active Facebook fans

Edgerank checker

Lets you see how well your posts are reaching your fans.

Facebook Developers

Introduction to social plugins

Facebook Insights

Fanbridge

Pagemodo

for making free, easy welcome pages

Touchgraph

Vitrue

evaluate the worth of your FB page

Wildfire Apps

For contests and promotions

YourOpenBook.org

type in a keyword and see who is talking about it, connect with them

Behind the Screens: Programmers Reveal How Film Festivals Really Work

Insights by programmers from some of the world's leading festivals

Fest21

Festival Focus

FilmFestivalLounge

Short Film Depot

Shorts

Sqirrel.to

Ultimate Film Fest

Withoutabox

British Council

Chris Jones Blog

The Collaborators

The Film Collaborative's "Facebook-for-Filmmakers". You can also access it via TFC's website on the Distripedia page,

Filmmaker Magazine

Indie Mogul

MicroFilmmaker Magazine

Digital Content Producer

Roberta Munroe

Short Film

Stage 32

The Stage 32 community is strictly for people working in or with a desire to work in film or theater. It’s a place to gather, to discuss and develop projects.

Starcast Auditions

A professional online service that advances actors based solely on the merit of superior talent. StarCast employs top casting directors to evaluate aspiring and up-and-coming actors and posts the very best performances as a resource for industry professionals.

Trigger Street Labs

Workbook Project

Baseline Intelligence

Box Office Mojo

Film Profit

Film Proposals

Jeff Steele's Film Closings

Louise Levison, "Filmmakers and Financing"

Business Plans for Independents

The Numbers

Screenline

Brigade Marketing

Cultural Front Productions

David Magdael & Associates

An indie publicity firm with a good grasp on grassroots marketing.

Film Sprout

Film Sprout handles both community / event theatrical and also grassroots marketing/outreach.

Ginsberg/Libby

They are more focused on social media side of grassroots marketing.

IndieMarketing

Picture Motion

Picture Motion is a boutique marketing firm specializing in grassroots campaigns, social action, and online engagement.

The Film Collaborative

The Film Collaborative also does grassroots marketing along with its other services. Our for-profit, New American Vision, also handles grassroots outreach for Film Society of Lincoln Center, AFI Fest, Los Angeles Film Festival, sometimes Roadside Attractions, among others.

Entertainment in Motion

EIM provide high quality entertainment to over 130 airlines around the world. In order to supply our airline customers with the variety of entertainment they demand, we offer first run theatrical films from Hollywood as well as first run Chinese films and the latest in theatrical releases from France.

Film Sprout

Grassroots and community distribution for independent documentaries.

Swank Motion Pictures

Swank Motion Pictures is the major non-theatrical movie distributor, online CE/CME education distributor and public performance licensing agent in venues where feature movies are shown publicly.

AWeber

Blue Sky Factory

Constant Contact

iContact

Mad Mimi

MailChimp

eCairn

Klout

mBlast

Area23a Movie Events

Balcony Booking and Releasing

They book certain theatres and can release beyond that.

Brave New Theaters

Cinedigm

Emerging Cinemas

The Film Collaborative

Floating Cinema (London)

Free Style Releasing

Future Artists

Future Artists is an independent media and film Production, Sales, Distribution and Boutique Exhibition company based in Solford, UK

Good Screenings

Indie Screenings

List of microcinemas in the US

Portobello Pop Up Cinema (London Microcinema)

Quad Cinemas Four Wall Select

Rangelife Entertainment

Screenings Services Group

ScreenVision

Variance Films

Brian Solis

Buzz Machine by Jeff Jarvis

Chris Brogan

Clay Shirky

Gerd Leonhard

Media Futurist

Larry Lessig

Sally Hogshead

Seth Godin's Blog

Social Media Examiner

SocialTimes.com

Unmarketing

Steve Stratten's blog.

Distributor Report Card (The Film Collaborative)

Distributor ReportCard™ gives filmmakers and producers a chance to SCHOOL THE DISTRIBUTORS. Write reviews, share your experiences and learn from other filmmakers' successes or mistakes.

The Film Collaborative

The Film Collaborators

Filmmaking Stuff

Make, market and sell your film without the middleman. Filmmaking Stuff offers resources for independent filmmakers.

Film Specific

Stacey Parks' site. More traditional distribution-focused.

Jerome Courshon

Sheri Candler Marketing and Publicity

Social network marketing guru/strategist. Committed to direct distribution to the audience by the filmmaker

Jon Reiss

Author of Think Outside the Box Office and Distribution and Marketing Strategist. Helps filmmakers connect films with audiences.

UK Film Council Case Studies

UK Film Council Statistical Yearbook

UK Film Council Statistic Release Calendar

Amplifier

The Connextion

Whiplash

Kontagent

Admob

Smartphone/Mobile Advertising

Bright Roll

Buy Ads

Buy advertising directly from the web’s best sites You choose where and when. BuyAds handles the rest. Start supercharging your advertising in less than 5 minutes!

Deliver Your Audience

Facebook ads

Google Adwords

Google Content Network

Jivox

Online video advertising

Big Star

Curated cross-platform platform. Niche and festival focused lately.

Blip.tv

Platform focused on web series.

Busk Films

BuskFilms is a video-on-demand site showcasing the best in independent queer film.

Constellation

Constellation, an online movie theater where audiences watch films together and and attend live Q&A's with VIP hosts–such as filmmakers, actors, or other notables associated with the films.

Distribber

Flat fee. Works through Premiere Digital

Distrify

Streaming on website and Facebook and with affiliate program

Dynamo Player

streaming on website and Facebook

Eggup

Download worldwide off your site. Geo-filtering possible.

Fans Of Film

A DIY platform.

The Film Collaborative

Direct digital

FlickLaunch

Platform focused on social interaction online.

Indieflix

Aggregator (though not always direct) and platform. Handles shorts and has a "festival-in-a-box" initiative.

Inmoo

Platform

Maxcast

Helps you share your videos online in an effective and high quality manner.

Mubi

A digital platform for pedigree art house film. Worldwide but mostly in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Online Film

A legal distribution platform for German and international films. Films of all genres can be distributed online and marketed cost effectively.

Open Film

Streaming platform for shorts and features.

Premiere Digital

A one stop shop for all digital needs. ITUNES - HULU - NETFLIX - XBOX - YOUTUBE - AMAZON - VUDU - AND (LITERALLY) HUNDREDS MORE

Prescreen

Direct opt-in email DIY digital distribution window pre regular digital Distro.

Quiver

TubeMogul

Simplifies delivery video (including Trailers) for maximizing branding and advertising. Will need the Pro level service for commercial content.

Tunecore

Turn your site into a store for worldwide distribution of all media. Implementation is work-intensive.

VODO

Monetize your film by giving it away for free.

Yekra

We distribute films. Just the way you want it done.

Google Alerts

Highbeam.com

Postling

RSS feeds

Talk Walker

AddThis

Attention Wizard

the attentionwizard.com site appears to have some malware issues, so we've disabled linking

Dynamo Video on Facebook using iFrames

Facebook Connect

Feedjit

Miro Community

A simple way to manage 10,000+ videos, no matter where they are hosted. You get a branded video portal that: is tailored to you, drives SEO directly to your site, and integrates with your existing web strategy. Excellent for video contest management.

Tripline

PinPuff

Pinpuff is a free-to-use tool, aiming to accurately measure Pinterest user's influence, reach and virality on Pinterest, assign a Pinfluence score and monetary values of their pins.

Along Came Mary

Founded in 1975 by Mary Micucci, Along Came Mary is now in its fourth decade of producing and catering events. Based in Los Angeles, CA

Event Solutions

Based in Santa Monica, CA

LA Premier

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Liz King Events

Westchester NY based event planner who utilizes innovative event technology and finds the perfect tools to make your events even more successful.

Wilkinson Rhodes

Based in San Antonio, TX

24-7 Press Release

Box.net

Dropbox

EPK TV

Marketers Media

Widespread Press Release Distribution to more than 750 Premium Media Outlets. Get Found on Major Search Engines

MDS West

PitchEngine

PRLog

PR Newswire

Shoot Publicity Wire

Bond Strategy and Influence

Understanding that every film is unique, Bond Strategy works to gather clear insights on who the target audience is and then develop custom digital and offline strategies that drive success in both box office and digital sales.

David Magdael & Associates

Falco Ink

Ginsberg Libby

inclusive PR

indie-pr

Jeremy Walker and Associates

Jeremy Walker is veteran movie publicist with twenty years of experience who has created memorable campaigns for all kinds of movies.

Nancy Schwartzman

An early adopter of cutting edge media tools for women's safety and dynamic storytelling, Nancy is a sought-after speaker and consultant working with college campuses, military populations, independent filmmakers, and international organizations.

PMKBNC

Right Clearing

The entire process from searching for songs to creating and paying for binding legal licenses has been automated.

Royalty Free Kings

‘pay once, use forever’ licensing fees specifically for projects with budgets under $250,000

Agora Pulse

Attract more Facebook fans to your page and engage them with fully customizable viral applications. Quiz, Photo Contest, Sweepstakes, Fan Vote, and many more.

Assemble

Assemble powers three core items, the website, branded trailer and facebook page apps. The perfect web-presence from which to sell film downloads, rentals, dvds, merch and screening fees direct from anywhere your audience wants to buy.

Fanbridge

Groupees

Groupees are 24- and 48-hour exclusive flash sales on new releases from hot indie artists, award-winning video games and other entertainment products.

Shopify

Ecommerce hosting site, shopping cart, online store builder

Social Toaster

Topspin Media

Wildfire

Alterian

Radian6

Sysomos

Vocus

Cloud-based marketing and PR software

Export.ly

Keyhole

Keyhole is an easy-to-use and affordable social tracker that presents your results in a beautiful, real-time dashboard.

RowFeeder

SocialMention

Sprout Social

Who Shared My Link?

Enter a URL and find out how out many times it was shared, and which journalists & bloggers shared it.

BuddyPress

for Wordpress sites

Kit Digital

Formerly KickApps

Mzinga

Onesite

Socialengine

SocialGo

Social Seed

We will consult with you before a campaign on what exactly you are hoping to achieve, and create a bespoke strategy for your video.

Zerista

for mobile communities

Amara

The most powerful and flexible subtitling platform in the world. Works with YouTube, Vimeo, HTML5, and more. Embed the video anywhere. Add subtitles yourself or ask viewers to help.

Captionmax

Dialogue List transcription

Closed Captioning Services, Inc.

subtitling, closed caption

Distrify

Distrify can take subtitled films and add players in different language versions, such as English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Japanese etc...

dotSUB

Paragon Language Services

Asian and European, close caption, transcribing, translation and subtitles

Coffee and Celluloid

Craigmod

Crowdfunders Bible

Hope for Film

Jennifer Fox's Guest Posting about "The First 6 Tips For Launching A Six-Figure Kickstarter Campaign"

John T. Trigonis

Joke and Biagio

King is a Fink

Julie Keck & Jessica King

Microfilmmaker Magazine

Sheri Candler's Blog

Art of the Title

David Rowley

David Rowley specializes in motion graphics for film and non-profits; he recently did all the graphics and the titles for 2013 Sundance award-winning doc Dirty Wars.

Handcrafted Films

Designer/filmmaker Evan Mather is an an independent filmmaker and landscape architect based in Los Angeles known for his short films spanning multiple genres—including animation, documentary, essay, music video, and film title design.

Kook Ewo

Paris based designer whose titles include Silent Hill, Martyrs, Solomon Kane

Scott Gordon

Los Angeles based freelance designer whose films include Hunger Games (DVD menu), Kick-ass (DVD menu), Locked in a Garage Band (opening title)

Smith Lee Design

Pride themselves on offering directors, producers and post supervisors a personal and collaborative experience. They take on very few projects, so each project gets full attention. Films include: Jeff, Who Lives at Home; John Carpenter’s The Ward; Up in the Air, and Juno

Voodoodog

London based VooDooDog works with many Hollywood studios and TV Studios, but also works with indie filmmakers.

Pixability

Online Video Grader.

Website Grader

Alexa

Blog Grader

Quantcast

Technorati

Callan Advertising Company

A great full service advertising agency.

Sawyer Entertainment

Adventist Filmmakers

For Christian filmmakers

Aspect Ratio

Trailers made for films such as Jeff Who Lives at Home, The Adventures of TinTin, and Lawless. Based in Los Angeles, CA

AV Squad

AV SQUAD is a creative advertising agency that focuses on entertainment marketing including theatrical motion pictures, television programming, and video games.

Bill Woolery

25 years in Los Angeles, editing trailers and TV campaigns for studio movies.

Buddha Jones

Buddha Jones means a different way to create cool, unique and unexpected work.

Cinefile

Domino Effect Productions

Domino Effect Productions can create an eye-catching feature film or short film trailer.

Eyeball NYC

FansOfFilm.com

Female Filmmaking Collective on Facebook

Filmmaker's Alliance

Good Spot

At Goodspot, the definition of an artist is someone who can tell a story through any medium be it editing, writing, designing, or filming. Everyone who works here is a storyteller in his or her own way.

IndieProducer.net

Jumpcut Creative

JumpCut (formerly Kinetic) is a movie advertising firm that has worked on campaigns for the finest in independent, foreign-language and documentary films.

Linkedin groups

Associated Producers Worldwide, Film and Television Professionals, Producers Network, Indie Film Producers and Directors

Massify

Mocean

While we began as a movie trailer company, we're constantly adding new divisions, new skill sets, new toys, new technologies and new ways of thinking.

Reel Ladies

Dark Soup Films (Ross Evison)

For 13+ years Ross Evison has been editing in the film advertising/marketing arena. Creating trailers, promos and TV commercials for major blockbusters to independent features all around the globe.

Shooting People

Tao Creative

We create all forms of audio-visual marketing materials: trailers, TV spots, special shoots, sizzle reels, motion graphics and web content from concept through finished product for theatrical film, television and home entertainment titles.

The Hive

At The Hive, we believe in talent and creativity. We have the correct film editor for your project. The http://www.hivedoes.com/editing/film-editor-los-angeles/ site appears to have some malware issues, so we've disabled linking

Trailer Park

All the capabilities are here….the trailers, TV spots, and print campaigns. The websites, widgets, and mobile applications. The featurettes, commentaries, and EPKs.

Wink Creative

WINK CREATIVE is a NYC-based ad agency specializing in theatrical film marketing: trailers, in-theater previews and television ads for motion pictures.

Brightcove

Daily Motion

Feed Company

Film Trailer.com (Europe/UK)

GodTube (for Christian content)

Grab Media

iTunes Movie Trailers

free to submit but restrictions apply, go to trailers@mac.com

Metacafe

Trailer Addict

TrailerSpy

TubeMogul

Simplifies delivery video (including Trailers) for maximizing branding and advertising. Will need the Pro level service for commercial content.

Unruly Media

We can expose your content to hundreds of millions of unique users across our hand-picked portfolio of blogs, social media applications and cult websites. You only pay when people are actively watching and engaging with your content.

Veoh

Video Seeding

Video seeding services include video marketing, promotion, YouTube advertising and reporting.

Vimeo

Viral Ad Network

We can seed your viral to millions The Viral Ad Network can help your film or game campaign go viral.

The Viral Factory

Our ability and experience in generating social engagements adds up to over 1 billion video views globally for our clients.

Virool

Virool is world’s first viral video ad network that allows companies to distribute video content through a series of online publishers.

Yahoo! Video

Yellow Thunder Media

YTM syndicates your videos to maximize organic views and help your content go viral. Advertises your video across 3,500+ premium publisher sites to help it find its audience.

YouTube

Campfire

Mike Monello (Blair Witch Project) is the Chief Creative Officer, works on major brand campaigns

A Creator's Guide to Transmedia

a book for those interested in learning more about transmedia.

Giant Mice (Brooke Thompson)

Seize the Media (Lance Weiler)

Starlight Runner Entertainment

Company founded by Jeff Gomez, handles Hollywood and big brand campaigns

Sub genre (Brian Newman)

Transmedia LA

Transmedia Storyteller (Rob Pratten)

Transmythology (Simon Pulman)

You Suck at Transmedia (Christy Dena)

Contax.io

Lets you search your followers by location, other tags.

Hootsuite

Listorious

Find lists of people around a topic.

MentiomMapp

Traces mentions on Twitter.

Oneforty.com

A site for an array of Twitter tools. Acquired by HubSpot.

PeerIndex

Allows you to see influence/friends using Twitter handles.

Tweetdeck

Tweetreach

Measures the reach of your tweets.

Tweetwally

Twellow

Directory of Twitter accounts.

Twit Faxo

Twitter research.

Twitpump

Twittergrader

Mekanism

Award winning creative agency specializing in integrated advertising and social media ad campaigns.

Socialcam

Free social video app for iPhone & Android. Share videos to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Email, SMS

Videolicious

iPhone app combining your video clips, photos, and sound to make a powerful, professional-quality video, sharable to Facebook, Twitter and Youtube