Category Archives: diy distribution
Crowdsourced Fundraising Presentation
For those of you who attended Sunday’s Filmmaker Alliance Filmmaker Workshop, as promised here is the powerpoint: Download it by clicking here (will automatically open a window from which you can download a PDF.) Click on the links below to check out some of the sites I mentioned in the talk: Indiegogo.com Camille Manybead’s campaign […]
An Open Conversation about Film Festivals
“SABI Pictures presents the first of the New Breed video reports realized this year in collaboration with Filmmaker Magazine and The Workbook Project. This one’s an open discussion between Lance Weiler, Peter Baxter, Saskia Wilson-Brown, Brian Newman and Paul Rachman just prior to Slamdance and the Open Video Alliance’s Filmmaker Summit in Park City.” See […]
New Breed writes up Cinema Speakeasy
Click here to check out the article Zak Forsman posted on New Breed (Workbook Project) about Cinema Speakeasy. We’re most indebted for the plug. “After reading Ted Hope’s 18 Actions Towards A Sustainable Truly Free Film Community, I held a mirror up to SABI to see how we faired. And we held up well. Our […]
Marketing Your Video Online
A semi-updated version of my introductory primer for learning how to market your film or video online… Download the PDF here. If you have any questions, suggestions, addendums, please email me at saskia@saskiawilsonbrown.com.
Saskia does a workshop: Showbiz Expo
In case you’re in Los Angeles: I’ll be teaching a workshop on the topic of ‘Fundraising and Audience-Building for filmmakers’ at Los Angeles’ upcoming Showbiz Expo, (tagline: ‘everyone in show business together under one roof’, which i find hilarious.) from 6:30 to 7:30 PM on Saturday October 17, 2009. With thanks to the good folks […]
DIY Days Philly: ‘Changes in Creative Collaboration’ panel
The Changes in Creative Collaboration panel I sat on (with SABI PICTURES, TOM QUINN, EUGENE MARTIN, ARIN CRUMLEY, HUNTER WEEKS, ZEKE ZELKER, moderated by SCOTT MACAULAY) is now online and ready for watching on diydays.com.
Announcing: Cinema Speakeasy
Announcing a new, invite-only, monthly film series – initially in Los Angeles – which aims to: showcase newer independent films that are doing the DIY Distribution rounds support the filmmakers by aligning them with new audiences outside the industry give potential non-industry audiences exposure to this new wave of content in an accessible and hip […]
Film Festival Secrets: PDF guide to Film Fests (free!)
OK my friend and colleague on the fest circuit – Mr. Chris Holland – wrote a guide to film festivals. Like a proper book. If you’re an indie filmmaker and you’ve asked me for advice in the last year, you need to read this. Here’s the info: Film Festival Secrets: Learn the tricks of the […]
If you pay attention to the clues, they just might get out alive.
David’s Dollhouse is the work of a filmmaker who has taken online video gameplaying to heart… to his dark, cold, macabre, eviscerated heart. Look through YouTube postings of girls ‘auditioning’. There are clues in the videos. Take the clues to the filmmaker’s home site to unlock short films showing what happens. http://www.youtube.com/user/likes2shoot http://www.davidsdollhouse.com/ (hint: Amy […]
