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Creative Distribution 101
by Nora Poggi
"Creative Distribution 101" features interviews with experts and filmmakers who have used creative, alternative and non traditional ways to get their films out there. Whether you're interested in the future of filmmaking, or just want to learn some distribution tips, this is for you !
Episodes
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Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Cinema Tropical Co-Founder
This interview was recorded in July 2022 and dives into the entire film ecosystem. Carlos serves on the board of directors of Film Forum and is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Cinema Tropical, a New York-based non-profit and media arts organization that has become the leading presenter…
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Christie Marchese - Kinema
Christie Marchese is the founder and CEO of Kinema, a social cinema platform connecting films to in-person and virtual audiences. Before Kinema, Christie founded the award-winning impact agency Picture Motion in 2012, developing grassroots marketing and social action campaigns for films such as...
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OVID.tv
Jonathan Miller runs the new subscription video-on-demand service called OVID.tv. which is a collaborative effort between several documentary distributors. Jonathan is also president of the distributor Icarus Films. OVID.tv aims to provide North American viewers with access to documentaries,...
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Karin Chien
In this episode, we are exploring more radical paths for indie distribution with Karin Chien, an award-winning producer and distributor. She is the founder and president of dGenerate Films, the leading distributor of independent, contemporary Chinese cinema. She is also one of the co-founding...
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TikTok 101 - Sarah Kambe Holland and Mollie Mulvey
Two young filmmakers Sarah Kambe Holland and Mollie Mulvey share tips and insights from their successful TikTok experiences for their films Egghead & Twinkie and The Better Part. Learn how to leverage TikTok to build your audience.
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Naomi McDougall Jones - DIY Digital & the Distribution Ecosystem
Naomi McDougall Jones was a guest on this podcast before talking about her second feature film called Bite Me, which developed into the Joyful Vampire Tour of America, an innovative 51-screening, 40-city, three-month tour in an RV. Naomi has since teamed up with the former CFO of the City of...
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Audience Building with Michaela Bethune, Participant
Michaela Bethune is Vice President of Audience Development for Participant, which is a global media company dedicated to entertainment that engages audiences to participate in social change. Previously, Michaela was Head of Campaigns for DoSomething.org, the largest tech company exclusively for...
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Ani Mercedes - Looky Looky Pictures
Ani Mercedes who is C.E.O., Founder and Impact Producer of Looky Looky Pictures, an impact production company that connects the power of films with the power of people. They work with stories that go beyond empathy; that aim to participate in the transformational work of building solidarity with...
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Director Preston DeFrancis
An indie horror movie case study with the acclaimed director of "Ruin Me", Preston DeFrancis.
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Director Christina Raia
Christina Raia is an award-winning Writer/Director. In this episode, she dives into an intriguing distribution case study and the film ecosystem. She is the Founder of CongestedCat Productions and was also head of education at crowdfunding & distribution platform Seed & Spark. Her work…
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Sian-Pierre Regis - Duty Free
Sian-Pierre Regis shares everything he learned on the incredible distribution and impact journey of his first feature film Duty Free, telling the story of his immigrant mother who at the age of 75 was fired from her lifelong job as a hotel housekeeper. Duty Free premiered on PBS Independent Lens…
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And So I Stayed - Natalie Pattillo & Daniel A. Nelson
This episode features journalists Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson, Co-Directors and Producers of AND SO I STAYED, an award-winning documentary about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars. This is the story of how the legal system gets domestic violence...
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Documentary Fandom with Julia Largent
True crime fans, anyone? For our last episode of the power of fandom season, we'll talk about documentary fans with Julia Largent, an Assistant Professor of Communication at McPherson College in Kansas. Her research focuses on documentary studies, fan studies and social media. She is the vice...
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The Business of Fandom with Fangirl Jeanne
This episode explores the business of fandom, how marketing and fan communities are increasingly connected within the corporate world, which communities get power, inequities in media representation, and much more, with Fangirl Jeanne, a writer, media critic, consultant, and unapologetic fangirl,...
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The sinister side of fandom with Stitch
A deep dive into racism in fandom, toxic fans, the complex business of fandom, and more, with Stitch, a writer and critic who has spent two decades in online fandom and is vocal about anti-Blackness. Stitch writes a Teen Vogue column called Fan Service studying fandom, and a personal blog…
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When Fans Take The Reins
Looking at case studies such as the Venom movie franchise, TV shows Supernatural, The 100, and more, this episode explores the power of fan communities to influence storylines and distribution in entertainment, and dives into the issue of queerbaiting, featuring interviews with fans and fandom...
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The Supernatural phenomenon with Samantha Highfill
Interview with Samantha Highfill, a long-time writer for Entertainment Weekly. Samantha covered the CW show Supernatural for many years, interviewing the cast at Paley Fest for their Scooby-Doo crossover celebration, or planning their goodbye photoshoot cover. 15 seasons, 327 episodes later,...
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Fan Activism with Shawn Taylor & Katie Bowers
We discuss Fan Activism with the co-founder of Nerds of Color and the managing director of Fandom Forward (formerly Harry Potter Alliance). Shawn is a founding author of www.thenerdsofcolor.org, and a founding organizer of The Black and Brown Comix Arts Festival. He is a recognized scholar and...
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Director Sami Khan
Sami Khan is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose work in fiction and documentary has been supported by the Sundance and Tribeca Film Institutes, Rooftop Films, the Gotham, and the NBC/Universal's Directors Fellowship. Sami's films have screened at leading festivals including Tribeca, Toronto, Hot...
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Director Julie Cohen
Julie Cohen directed and produced alongside Betsy West, the Academy Award-nominated documentary "RBG," about the pioneering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Their new films include "My Name Is Pauli Murray" about the non-binary Black lawyer, activist and poet, and "Julia", profiling...
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New Season - The Power of Fandom
Welcome to the new season on the power of fandom. We obsess over films, shows, etc., and were wondering, how does that translate to filmmaking and film distribution? What can we learn about audience engagement, community building, and impact from fandom? This season features many incredible…
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Author Leigh Stein
Leigh Stein is a writer interested in what the internet is doing to our identities, relationships, and politics - and also a marketing genius! Her critically acclaimed novel Self Care was released in June 2020. Leigh is the author of 3 other acclaimed books. Her non-fiction writing has appeared…
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Suhad Babaa - Just Vision
Suhad Babaa is the Executive Director of Just Vision, an organization that fills a media gap on Israel-Palestine through independent storytelling and strategic audience engagement. Suhad executive produced their 2017 acclaimed feature-length documentary, Naila and the Uprising, which portrays the...
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In My Blood It Runs
In My Blood It Runs was made and distributed through a deeply collaborative process between the filmmaking team and the communities in the film, which this episode dives into. The acclaimed documentary was directed by Maya Newell who has previously directed the 2015 film Gayby Baby which streamed...
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Eliza Licht
Eliza Licht has been working in the social-issue documentary field for 20 years, and spent 17 years at the PBS documentary series POV, where she spearheaded broadcast campaigns for over 250 films. Eliza has also spearheaded engagement campaigns for over 200 films, including American Promise &…
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Vanessa Cuervo Forero
Vanessa Cuervo Forero is a queer feminist Colombian cultural organizer, dancer & impact strategist working across art, activism & social justice. With DOCCO LABS she designed a virtual training program for Colombian Impact Producers, creating an online community called !ACCION! As part of the…
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Andraéa LaVant - "Crip Camp"
Welcome to our new season, "The Power of Community"! Andraéa LaVant is a nationally and internationally sought-after disability inclusion expert. She is widely recognized for spearheading a global disability justice movement as impact producer for Netflix's Oscar-nominated film, Crip Camp,...
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"Just Mercy" & Represent Justice
This episode features Gretel Truong, VP of Impact Campaigns, and Carla Fleisher, VP of Impact Distribution at Represent Justice, which started as an impact campaign inspired by the life and legacy of Bryan Stevenson, featured in the film "Just Mercy", starring Michael B. Jordan and Oscar winners...
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Sriyanka Ray
Sriyanka Ray is a Brooklyn based Indian Video Journalist, Storyteller, and Producer of social issue content. She works as a Senior Producer at BRIC TV, an Emmy Award-winning cable TV and digital network for Brooklyn, New York. She helped create and develop BRIC TV's #BHeard strand of public…
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Sonya Childress
Sonya Childress served as the Director of Partnerships and Engagement for Firelight Media for 16 years, where she led impact campaigns for veteran director Stanley Nelson's films, including Freedom Summer, Freedom Riders, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities and…
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Adele Free Pham, Director of "Nailed It"
Adele Free Pham is an activist and filmmaker whose work has appeared in over 20 film festivals, on HBO, PBS, and The Smithsonian. Her feature documentary called "NAILED IT", about the genesis and culture of the Vietnamese nail industry, premiered on PBS in May 2019 and is the highest streamed…
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Leah Warshawski, Director of "Big Sonia"
Leah's career in film began in Hawaii working in the marine department for the tv show LOST and HAWAII. She's a director and producer and her first feature, called FINDING HILLYWOOD won multiple awards and screened at more than 65 festivals. She gave a TedX talk entitled "How Do You Cope With The...
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James Ward Byrkit, Director of Coherence
James Ward Byrkit is a director and writer, known for the science fiction thriller Coherence, for which he was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director. He was the storyboard artist on the first three films of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and the storyboard artist and...
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Deia Schlosberg, director of "The Story of Plastic"
Deia Schlosberg made national news in October 2016, when she was arrested and charged with 45 years' worth of felonies for filming the #ShutItDown pipeline protest in North Dakota. She is currently directing the docuseries Bootstraps about universal basic income and her feature documentary The...
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Caitlin Boyle, Founder of Film Sprout
Caitlin is the new Director of Industry and Education at DOC NYC, North America's largest documentary festival. Before that, she founded and spent a decade at the helm of Film Sprout, a grassroots distribution and audience engagement firm which paved the way for a lot of the campaigns we see…
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Mia Bruno
Mia is the founder of Fourth Act Film, where she works with filmmakers and content-creators on distribution strategy, sales, and innovative marketing tactics. She has worked on distribution and impact campaigns for award-winning films, including Sundance hits like The Game Changers, The Great…
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Heidi Nel
Heidi Nel is a social impact strategist and producer. As the head of The Raben Group's Impact Entertainment division, she provides pro-social consultation to leaders in media, entertainment, and philanthropy, including the American Film Institute, Beachside Films, The Fledgling Fund, Fuse Media,...
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Sarah Mosses, CEO of Together Films
Sarah Mosses is the founder and CEO of a fast-growing company, called Together Films. Together Films is a Marketing, Distribution & Data agency, specializing in Impact Distribution Strategy. They have worked on campaigns for amazing, award-winning films such as Sundance hit The Hunting Ground, on...
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Naomi McDougall Jones
Naomi McDougall Jones is an award-winning actress, writer, producer, and women in film activist. Naomi wrote, produced, and starred in the 2014 indie feature film, Imagine I'm Beautiful, which took home 12 awards on the film festival circuit. Naomi's second feature film, Bite Me, is a subversive...
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Emily Best, Founder & CEO, Seed&Spark
Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, an entertainment platform building a new studio model, with fair and transparent business practices, to provide every filmmaker the opportunity to create a sustainable career, no matter where they live or what they look like. Seed&Spark has curated...
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Curtis Chin, Director of "Tested"
Curtis has written for ABC, Disney Channel, and Nickelodeon, and won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the San Diego Asian American Film Foundation. As a community activist, he co-founded the Asian American Writers Workshop and Asian Pacific...
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Leah Meyerhoff, Founder of Film Fatales
This is episode 6 with Leah Meyerhoff, whose debut feature film I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS premiered at SXSW 2014 and continues to travel the film festival circuit. Her previous short films have screened in over 200 film festivals, won a dozen awards, and aired on IFC, PBS and MTV. She has been...
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Season 2 announcement
Mark your calendars for mid-August when brand new episodes will drop every week for Season 2 with guests including Leah Meyerhoff of Film Fatales, Emily Best of Seed & Spark, Curtis Chin of Tested, amazing alumni from the Firelight Media Impact Producer Fellowship, Naomi McDougall Jones of the...
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Maria Judice, Founder of Indigo Impact
Welcome to Episode 5, with Maria Judice. Maria is an award-winning writer and director, who also founded INDIGO IMPACT in 2016 with a mission to bring left of center stories and creators to global audiences as an Impact Producer. She worked for such titles like DREAMSTATES starring Saul Williams,...
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Robin Hauser - CODE, debugging the gender gap
In episode 4, Robin Hauser Reynolds, the director of the award-winning documentary "Code: debugging the gender gap" about women in technology shares her distribution and fundraising tips. CODE premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2015, and has caught the attention of the international tech...
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Orly Ravid, Founder of The Film Collaborative
In episode 3, Orly Ravid, who founded THE FILM COLLABORATIVE in 2010, tells us all about how to market docs and fiction films, the golden rules of online distribution, how to have a sustainable career with creative distribution and build festival relationships. Orly has spoken on distribution at...
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Sarah Moshman - The Empowerment Project
The "Creative Distribution 101" podcast features interviews with experts and filmmakers who have used creative, alternative and non traditional ways to get their film out there. Whether you're interested in the future of filmmaking, or just want to learn some distribution tips, this is for you !...
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Liz Manashil - Creative Distribution Initiative at Sundance
The "Creative Distribution 101" podcast features interviews with experts and filmmakers who have used creative, alternative and non traditional ways to get their film out there. In this first episode I interview Liz Manashil (@LizManashil) who runs the Creative Distribution Initiative at the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
"Creative Distribution 101" features interviews with experts and filmmakers who have used creative, alternative and non traditional ways to get their films out there. Whether you're interested in the future of filmmaking, or just want to learn some distribution tips, this is for you !
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Nora Poggi
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