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Making Your Film Stand Out in a Crowded Market

Rep Your Film! — How To Find a Sales Agent with Rupeshi Shah, Cinetic Media, and Anaïs Clanet, Reservoir Docs

Thu, April 13, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST

Have you ever gotten over the finishing line of making your film and felt burnt-out and totally overwhelmed by the thought of selling and pitching it to distributors? Consider bringing on a sales agent!In this session, we will cover how to find and work with experts who can help bring your film to streamers, broadcasters, and distributors – both domestically and internationally! Come learn from two experts in the field of film sales – Rupeshi Shah from the Sales Group at Cinetic Media (Coded Bias, Oscar-winner Summer of Soul, Knock Down the House) and Anaïs Clanet from Reservoir Docs (1341 Frames of Love and War, Francesca and Love, Venus de Milo: Disarming Beauty) – who have a wealth of experience and knowledge about the North American and international film markets. Learn about platform and broadcast sales, co-production, post-pandemic film festival strategy, and much more from these industry experts. Sign up.

Maximize Your Audience with PR with David Magdael, DMAG-PR

This workshop occurred in the past, but if you sign up for the webinar season pass, you will receive a video recording.

In the path to completing your film – be it scripted feature, documentary, or short – it is important to develop a publicity and marketing strategy early on! In this in-depth webinar, leading publicist in the documentary and independent film industry David Magdael (David Magdael & Associates), who has over 20 years of experience leading PR and marketing campaigns for hundreds of films including Oscar-nominated House of Splinters, Pray Away, and A Thousand Cuts, joins us to discuss how to find the right publicist for your project. When is the optimal time to hire one? What should you expect from a publicist, and how much should you budget? Can you work with one publicist for festivals and another for theatrical and broadcast/streaming? Is social media included in PR strategy? All of these questions, and more, will be addressed in this webinar session.  

Stand Out Marketing Materials with Brand and Content Strategist Jessica Akpan, Wealth Agency

This workshop occurred in the past, but if you sign up for the webinar season pass, you will receive a video recording.

You’ve finally signed off on your finished film – now how do you make sure your intended audience watches it? Creating marketing materials that pop is essential to helping your film stand out in an oversaturated market. The look, design, and language across your website, press kits, trailers, social media channels, and more, needs to be polished and consistent – and leave a lasting impression on the viewer. In this webinar, award-winning Brand and Content Strategist Jessica Akpan, who has worked on films such as Through the Night (Co-Produced by BELLY OF THE BEAST’s Nicole Docta) and No Time To Fail, will teach you how to work with marketing professionals to make sure your film gets noticed. Akpan is especially passionate about shedding a light on the unseen and ensuring films by underrepresented filmmakers are given the attention they deserve. She will share her advice on creating a marketing timeline and what and how much to budget for these important costs.

Developing a Film Festival Strategy with WMM’s Debra Zimmerman

This workshop occurred in the past, but if you sign up for the webinar season pass, you will receive a video recording.

Film festivals provide the platform for launching your film, getting industry attention, building your audience, and gaining the interest of potential sales agents, distributors and platforms . Plus, with the inclusion of in-person and hybrid screenings since the COVID-19 pandemic, there are now more decisions than ever to consider as you decide which festivals are right for your film.Join WMM Executive Director, Debra Zimmerman, as she guides you through the world of film festivals and presents ways to create the best festival strategy for your film! Learn how to optimize festival screenings with tips on premiere strategies, international and domestic fests, generating buzz, gaining word of mouth, and navigating the scene once you’re there. This is the perfect webinar to learn how to get the most out of this increasingly important part of your feature or short film’s roll-out strategy, led by one of the industry’s leading experts on independent film distribution.

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Producing for Documentary Film

A four part webinar series on creative producing, impact and engagement, executive producing, and archival producing!

Whether you are looking for a producer, want to be a producer, or are confused by what kind of producer does what and/or what you need for your project and your team, this series is for you! 

In our constantly changing industry, the title ‘producer’ gets muddled with many descriptions, what does the work entail, but how specifically do we break this down into what a producer is, does, and is credited? It’s not a catch-all by any means. And if you want to be a producer, how does one make it a sustainable career?

These four webinars are skill-building workshops for creative producing, producing for impact and engagement, executive producing, and archival producing. With experts in each field, we will break down, examine and define what each bucket of producing entails and how to make it work successfully.

This series has ended, but the series, and each individual workshop is now for sale On Demand.

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These events are targeted at all levels of filmmakers. They provide networking opportunities as well as valuable and practical information about the business of filmmaking. 

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WMM Production Assistance Program and Distribution Filmmakers can receive a special discount for being part of our programs. Please email [email protected] if you are in need of the promo code. Members of WMM partner organizations can receive $15 off admission of the full webinar series or $5 off individual sessions. Please contact your organization for more info.

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