Some useful ideas explored here from New Breed – these are part of an on-going series from Filmmaker Magazine and The WorkBook Project to document the Filmmaker Summit held last Saturday at Slamdance (more about this to follow soon). Filmmakers Zak Forsman and Kevin K. Shah of Sabi Pictures arrive at Park City with an intent to define the questions most relevant to independent distribution options. Insights from Brian Newman, Dan Mirvish, Jon Reiss and Ira Deutchman open a path…

We’re big fans of Jon Reiss’ book, Think Outside the Box Office. Jon is offering filmmakers a really great consultation opportunity so if you’re headed to Park City you’ll want to read this: As some of you might know, one of the reasons that I wrote Think Outside the Box Office was after those first Filmmaker articles I wrote in Fall ‘08 about my experiences distributing my graffiti doc Bomb It, many filmmakers contacted me to help them with their…

Shooting People are blogging from Sundance and Slamdance this year. Follow all our adventures on the Festival Focus blog – and leave comments if there is specific information you would like us to cover.

I just arrived in Park City and have done the necessary grocery schlep to Albertsons to stock up on essentials (oranges so I don’t get scurvy, beer so I don’t get sober, Airborne so I don’t die). I’m now combing through all the films and starting to get really excited about the days ahead. Jesse Epstein and I will be blogging over at the Shooting People Festival Focus blog so please follow all our adventures there.