20th Century Fox has unveiled a new division — FoxFaith — created to acquire and distribute “morally-driven, family friendly programming,” according to its Web site, which explains, “to be part of FoxFaith, a movie has to have overt Christian content or be derived from the work of a Christian author” http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=2472082&page=1

Film distributors have always distributed speciality titles. This effort is indicative of the next wave of niche marketing in the film business. Be sure to visit the FoxFaith website. They are also establishing a club/loyalty program as part of the marketing plan.

Monday, September 18, 2006

Poker Pays Off for Independent Filmmaker Author: Ian McKenzie
newsdesk@bluffmedia.com

http://www.bluffmagazine.com/news/newsArticle.asp?newsID=1101278

It’s the kind of storyline you would see in a film – but one online poker win means that a new film will make it to the big screen.

“We’re pretty sure that ours is the first film to be entirely funded by online poker winnings” says film director Nick Scott, who turned to poker after being frustrated by the lack of official film funding. “It’s difficult for British filmmakers to fund their projects. We had a great script and just wanted to make the thing, but it was going to take us months to raise the cash ourselves.”

Posted on Sun, Sep. 10, 2006

New film funding source: The fans
`Iraq for Sale’ producer solicited donations via the Internet for movie
WILLIAM BOOTH
Washington Post

The e-mail alerted potential supporters that Greenwald was committed to making “Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers.” Gilliam wrote: “To start shooting, we need money. Overall, the film will cost $750,000. We can expect about $450,000 to be offset by DVD sales, selling foreign rights, and an advance from our retail store distributor, but we still need $300,000. A generous donor just stepped up and will contribute $100,000 if we can match it with $200,000 from someone else. That someone else is you! 4000 people giving $50 each. We’ll put everyone’s name in the credits.”

They got $267,892 in 10 days.

Charlotte Observer http://tinyurl.com/z6h77

Fiscal sponsorship can allow donors to a film to receive a tax deductible write-off. Without such a financing arrangement in place, donors to a film are making a personal gift that has no tax benefit.

Organizations such as the Film Arts Foundation offer fiscal sponsorship:

http://www.filmarts.org/services.php?function=fiscal