Great movie posters that get people to stop and notice your film at a festival, add it to their Netflix cue or drop $12 at the local theater are not just a fluke...they are a result of great design. Peep the info graphic below by COLOURlovers.com to see what poster design elements help get asses ...read more
On the season #6 premiere of The Double Down Film Show we discuss indie film marketing, publicity with microbudget maven, Sheri Candler. Sheri is an independent film marketing and publicity consultant who co-authored the new book, Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul, which features DIY dist...read more
If you are an indie filmmaker working towards your first feature, you can't afford not to read this hot new book. Check back here for our exclusive Double Down Film Show interview with co-author Marketing and Publicity expert, Sheri Candler, when it's released this September. ...read more
My man, Sam Thompson, director of the Slamdance film, "There's a Werewolf in My Attic", who I met briefly at Sundance a few years back just launched a simple fun campaign to promote and sell his newest horror flick "Living Arrangements". I'm reposting it here because I think it's an excellent case-...read more
If you've been listening to any of the 30+ hours of free filmmaking advice we've been doling out every week on The Double Down Film Show, then you are already well aware that as I've been predicting and preaching on this blog since it started sveral year ago, the Hollywood middlemen of old (cable co...read more
This is Part 1 of a two part interview with notable indie film consultant, Peter Broderick, who was also the executive producer of Paper Chasers directed by Maxie Collier. Thanx to Maxie who posted this on his new Digital Media Recipes site so I could discover it and post it here for y'all...The F...read more
Back during the writer's strike, bored TV wonder boy, Joss Whedon (creator of such modern cult classics as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and "Firefly") created a whole new show while he waited for the writers, producers, and studios to get their acts together. The end result is the quirky new property ...read more
One of the things I find really knocks the wind out of first time feature filmmakers is the conundrum...the cruel irony...the mystery...the realities of DISTRIBUTION. That's right the "D" word.At a minimum, the whole point is to get people to see your movie and get your money back to make another f...read more