Filmmaker Toolkit
A Guide to Getting Your Indie to LGBTQ Audiences
The fast-paced, quickly changing world of film promotion and distribution can be daunting, especially if it’s your first film, or you don’t know the key social media sites, filmmaker resources, or even terminology to get started. After months or years of creating a film from start to finish, many filmmakers can find themselves saying “now what?” In this digital age, more opportunities exist, but filmmakers are also often asked to be their own biggest fan, PR consultant, and social outreach guru. Audiences have more options and less time than ever before. Now is the time to think creatively about distribution and self-promotion. Before the Internet, things were a bit simpler. In Welcome to the New World, Peter Broderick points towards distributors, production companies, studios and foreign sales as dominating in the Old World, or traditional, form of distribution. These days, filmmakers keep control of their content in the New World, and are reaching audiences directly, but there is also a great deal of legwork involved in self-promotion. Though designed for LGBTQ films, this Filmmaker Toolkit should be useful for any independent filmmaker navigating a changing world of film.
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