The Film Collaborative Eblast #12

Just a quick missive to all you Collaborators out there:

Our new TFC BLOG post is up about International Sales:

Sales Agents: Are they Distributors or like Real Estate Brokers? Filmmakers are often confused by the difference between a sales agent and a distributor that sells your film for 15–20 years. Let's use a real estate metaphor here…where a Re-Max broker might merely sell your house on your behalf, a sales agent would generally take ownership of your land and then resell it and its territorial clones all over the world. In other words, they usually first take the rights to your film, then take delivery, and finally license those rights territory by territory for a term, a minimum guarantee, and usually a royalty split. Read more…

This blog post was also posted as a guest blog on Ted Hope's Truly Free Film Blog on his Hope For Film site.

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TFC encourages its filmmakers to utilize the Distributor Report Card. If you are feeling shy or reserved about posting experiences that are critical of certain distributors, you can post anonymously using the username: filmmaker and password: filmmaker.

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The Film Collaborative is proud to add First Run Features as a distribution partner for its Shorts Global Distribution Initiative. The first DVD collection will be released in May 2011.

TFC will also be making its shorts programs, as well as all of its directly distributed films, available on a forthcoming HD-YouTube rental channel as part of the YouTube's plan to launch content on web-enabled TVs this Fall.

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