ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

1 year, 9 months ago - Brendan O'Neill

This is a useful Facebook group where you can ask and learn. https://www.facebook.com/groups/699825860525598

1 year, 9 months ago - Madis Malgand

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1 year, 9 months ago - Douglas McFarlane

I run UK Film Network and have a partner company who can help distribute via Amazon Fire Tv, Roku at an agreed streaming price, or refer you to investors who the sales / distribution side.

Douglas@ukfilmnetwork.com

1 year, 8 months ago - David Bryant

Hi James

This is the hard part. It's not so much choosing a distributor as them accepting you, but- not sure your budget- chances of them paying up front or doing any advertising is a stretch. I've been through it with my low budget thriller Splinter and got a deal for distribution, a small MG that pretty much went on delivery.

I do wonder whether I should have simply self released on Amazon- where your company can upload it to several territories and you will them get paid monthly, so it's up to you to promote it- which is not easy.

Lots of sharks out there- be careful. Also, it's always worth going to Cannes film market and walking round, showing the trailer and artwork to distributors.

Good luck.

David

1 year, 8 months ago - Chris Chandler

It's certainly worth planning for entry into selected festivals international - specialist horror and/or comedy fests for choice. This way you will put your film in front of similarly specialist distributors who do scout festivals for breakthrough material. Many festivals won't take films which are already online, so think about 6 months of festival outings before following the (pretty sound) advice below. Even if festival play doesn't land a distributor, it never hurts a film to have a handful of "selected for the XYZ horror fest" in its promotional material.

France, Spain and Italy are all territories with a track record of interest in horror, and I believe Latin America as well. USA because of the size of the market, and probably worth considering Japan/S Korea as well which might be attracted to quirky UK material.

The British Council has a searchable database of world festivals - http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/festivals-directory