I wasn’t able to attend the Shooting People/BAFTA Short Sighted event in London earlier this month due to the very inconvenient fact that I was in New York! But all the feedback has been excellent and it sounds like filmmakers really benefited from the day’s panels and case studies. I particularly like this comment: “The event was motivating due to the knowledge of panel members as well as the clever filmmakers attending. Shooting People is ‘as yellow as the generosity…

Another piece from Anne Thompson at Variety about the changing distribution strategies indie producers/distributors are pursuing: [F]ilmmakers with an easily defined niche and some marketing flair can still assemble a distribution plan. After doc “Beautiful Losers” debuted at SXSW in March, the filmmakers considered traditional offers from distribs but decided to release the doc on their own. Sidetrack Films partnered with Nike Sportswear to sponsor art workshops, and a shoe and apparel company helped pay for its Aug. 8 launch…

The excellent and knowledgeable Laure Parsons has recently started a new blog on distribution in the digital age called Infinicine. It’s pretty new and shiny right now but subscribe to it to get future updates on things happening in the big wide world of digital distribution. This stuff changes so quickly – blogs like this help you stay on top of things so you can make smart distribution decisions and not glaze over when people start talking about VOD and…

Liz Rosenthal has always been an advocate of all things digital and was the Programme Director of Digimart’s Global Digital Distribution Summit, in Montréal. Last Friday she organized Power To The Pixel, an industry forum running alongside the London Film Festival. Speakers included: Ira Deutchman (President & CEO Emerging Pictures), David Straus & Joe Neulight (Co-founders, Withoutabox), Kelly De Vine (Content Consultant, Renew Media), Robert Greenwald (Director, Iraq For Sale, Walmart, Outfoxed), Susan Buice & Arin Crumley (Directors, Four Eyed…

I know I have been rabbiting on a bit about last week’s Filmmaker Conference but there are so many great resources available online which I think will be extremely useful for all those filmmakers who couldn’t make the event itself. As usual Lance Weiler has tons of great links and video on the Workbook Project for your viewing pleasure. This panel on consumer viewing habits, moderated by Weiler, will give you lots of good techy tips on how to create…