Moving Pictures Magazine published a useful step-by-step overview covering how to sell your project at the AFM. The article summarizes the kind of coaching Sharp Angle provides to its clients. Here is the quick overview:
“Identify the elements that constitute your package and be able to pitch it in a brief period of time.”
“Of the 400 companies at the AFM, it’s unlikely that any film would suit any more than 25 or 30.Put together your list.”
Utilize the screenings, pitch sessions, locations expo, and other resources
With your research complete, buy a half-market badge and start making the rounds
UTA is one of the leading agencies in Hollywood. Their online effort to identify new talent is a real departure from standard operating procedures. Here is some background:
UTA Online represents the most original and successful artists emerging from the Internet, and this channel is designed to showcase some of their work. For more information about UTA Online, or any of our represented artists, please visit: www.utaonline.net.
They have information and video from clients here:
Sebastian Michael�s film, “the study of bunkers & mounds in a temperate climate (relatively speaking),” pioneered an inventive new way of film funding. Cleverly named, “fund a frame”, this new approach to film financing paved its way to success by basically selling single frames of the film. On its main website, people are invited to fund a single frame, thus making this film “the first ever frame-by-frame funded film”.
The idea is pure ingenuity as it mimics the cool factor of the business of selling land on the moon. The filmmakers send out an email that describes the donor’s funded frame as “handpicked for you” along with the actual image of the frame as a high-resolution (HD) jpeg file with your name and the time code printed on it.
In additional, to add a more Hollywood-like collector’s item flavor to the donation, the frame can also be printed on high quality photographic paper, autographed and framed in a black wooden frame. As an additional incentive to get the program running, when funding for the film began, it was even possible for donors to get their names on the credits.
Visit ifta-online for more information on the American Film Market.
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