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Creative Distribution 101Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Cinema Tropical Co-FounderThis 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 of Latin American cinema in the United States, founded in 2001 with the mission of distributing, programming and promoting what was to become the biggest boom of Latin American cinema in decades. Carlos is also one of the co-founding members of the coalition in formation Distribution Advocates.
2023-01-2545 min
Zak TasticShenanigators :: Episode III (The Purple Grotto)Bringing in the new year with a new swagger, a new beginning, and a whole new horizon to explore! I hope your 2023 is off to a great start and that this year brings you untold fame and fortune. Much love!
Song List:
1. Here Remix Ft. Alessia Cara :: Wattz
2. Something About You (Original Mix) :: Hayden James
3. Better (Extended Mix) :: Sonny Fodera
4. Amore (Original Mix) :: Augusto Yepes, Calussa
5. San Juan (Band&dos Remix) :: Sebastian Rivero, Calussa
6. Dakar (Original Mix) :: Darksidevinyl
7. Home (Original Mix) :: Marino Canal, Delhia De France, Adriatique
8. East of the Sun (Original Mix) :: Da Mike
9. Bessame (Original Mix) :: Malone, Calussa
10. ...
2023-01-062h 14Creative Distribution 101Christie Marchese - KinemaChristie 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 Free Solo, 13th, Fed Up, and many more. This episode dives into what filmmakers can expect from working with the Kinema platform, and what role this new company plays in the indie film ecosystem.
2022-12-1527 minCreative Distribution 101OVID.tvJonathan 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, independent films, and notable works of international cinema, that may be unavailable on other platforms, streaming a library of over 1600 titles. The content partners behind OVID are a group of established distribution companies. OVID was founded with a commitment to openness and transparency regarding their data.
2022-10-2541 minCreative Distribution 101Karin ChienIn 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 members of the "coalition in formation" called Distribution Advocates.
2022-10-0641 min
The Naked French Podcast | Learn French with Bilingual French - English PodcastThe beautiful profession of cinema (Le beau métier du cinéma)Meet Nora Poggi, French director and producer of the acclaimed documentary She Started It. Let’s explore her cinephile roots, how she broke into the US film industry, and what it’s like making documentary films in the genre’s golden age.
Highlights:
Growing up in Paris [01:14]
What was Nora like when she was young? [01:43]
Moving to the US and culture shock in America [06:24]
Working as an impact producer [11:57]
Being a female director [15:02]
What Nora loves about making documentary films [17:00]
She Started It [18:17]
What mindset do you need as a journalist or documentary filmmaker? [20:32]
Time management when working...
2022-08-1828 minCreative Distribution 101TikTok 101 - Sarah Kambe Holland and Mollie MulveyTwo 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.
2022-07-1352 minCreative Distribution 101Naomi McDougall Jones - DIY Digital & the Distribution EcosystemNaomi 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 Chicago to found The 51 Fund, an investment fund to finance films written, directed, and produced by women. Through it, Naomi became an Executive Producer of the acclaimed documentary feature film, Cusp, which premiered at Sundance in 2021. She was also a writer for season 1 of Amazon's original series, The New Yo...
2022-06-2949 minCreative Distribution 101Audience Building with Michaela Bethune, ParticipantMichaela 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 young people and social change, and she led California’s digital strategy and voter mobilization programs for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign. Today, Michaela leads impact campaign strategy for Participant. Participant’s more than 100 films include academy award winners Spotlight, "American Factory", "CITIZENFOUR", "The Cove" and "An Inconvenient Truth", and recently the award-winning film "Judas and the Black M...
2022-06-2336 minCreative Distribution 101Ani Mercedes - Looky Looky PicturesAni 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 (rather than for) the communities they aim to serve. Ani and her team have implemented and advised on impact production for over 800 filmmakers including the films Through the Night, Councilwoman, Building the American Dream, and LIYANA.
2022-04-2743 minCreative Distribution 101Director Preston DeFrancisAn indie horror movie case study with the acclaimed director of "Ruin Me", Preston DeFrancis.
2022-04-2050 minCreative Distribution 101Director Christina RaiaChristina 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, consisting of over a dozen short films, a web series, and two feature films, has screened at film festivals around the world.
2022-04-1355 minCreative Distribution 101Sian-Pierre Regis - Duty FreeSian-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 in 2021. It was not only a #1 Apple News story, but one of the most-talked about documentaries of the year, receiving press from CBS Sunday Morning, USA Today, NYT, CNN, and getting an IDA Award nomination for Best Writing in a Feature.
2022-04-0741 minCreative Distribution 101And So I Stayed - Natalie Pattillo & Daniel A. NelsonThis 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 wrong. The film was featured in the NYT, ABC News, and more. It is a moving portrait of Kim DaDou Brown, Tanisha Davis, and Nikki Addimando three survivors whose strikingly similar stories are separated by over 30 years. None of them were believed, and each of them was criminalized for fighting back.
2022-03-3058 min
Art SenseEp. 39: Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©01:25 - A discussion with Ileen Gallagher, the event producer who has worked with the estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat to create an immersive experience that introduces viewers to the iconic artist from the perspective of his family. Interviews with Basquiat’s younger sisters Jeanine and Lisane, his stepmother Nora and a variety of friends are interspersed with personal effects and mementos that he left behind, as well as more than 200 works of art that have never been seen in public. The exhibit launches April 9 at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea with a companion book available this Spring wherever you buy books.
2022-03-2229 min
Vinny Troia - Live Sets and DJ MixesLive at IMRSD: Feb 05, 202230 Tracks of House, Progressive, and Techno, recorded live at IMRSD in St. Louis on Feb 05, 2022. Tracklist: 01 - Queen of Ice - Nora En Pure02 - Stan Kolev - Just You03 - Space Motion vs Francesco Poggi - The Sun Can't Compare (Vinny Troia Mashup)04 - James Hype - Disconnected 05 - Seal & Claptone - Just a Ghost (Vintage Culture Remix)06 - Sofi Tukker - Drinkee (Vintage Culture Remix)07 - Alexey Romeo - Lo Que Siento08 - Versus - Red Light09 - R...
2022-02-231h 42Creative Distribution 101Documentary Fandom with Julia LargentTrue 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 president of The Midwest Popular Culture Association and will dive into her research on fandom and documentaries.
2022-02-0252 min
Breaking Out of Breaking InCreative Distribution 101 with Nora PoggiWe chat with fellow women in film in podcasting Nora Poggi about her podcast, impact distribution and producing, the intersection of art and activism, and more! Listen to Creative Distribution 101: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-distribution-101/id1449515400 Even more content: Patreon.com/BreakingOutPod Free newsletter: BreakingOutPod.com Email: BreakingOutofBreakingInPod@gmail.com Follow: @BreakingOutPod Music: KelseyRauber.com Art: KaileeCristina.com Editing: instagram.com/ezra.li
2022-01-271h 05Creative Distribution 101The Business of Fandom with Fangirl JeanneThis 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, who built a great following with her expertise in deconstructing popular media.
2022-01-2649 minCreative Distribution 101The Dark Side of Fandom with StitchA deep dive into the dark side of fandom, racism, 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 personal blog Stitch's Media Mix, with commentary on and criticism of both pop culture and the fandoms it spawns. Stitch works on projects that focus on positive and diverse representation in fandom spaces and in the media we consume.
2022-01-191h 10Creative Distribution 101When Fans Take The ReinsLooking 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 experts Yael Tygiel, Stephanie, and Chrisha Anderson.
2022-01-1224 minCreative Distribution 101The Supernatural phenomenon with Samantha HighfillInterview 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, Supernatural is the longest-running sci-fi/genre series in the history of American broadcast television, launching in 2005. It is well known for its very active and passionate fandom, the SPN Family, who has rallied many times to keep the show on the air and for various charity projects.
2022-01-0529 minCreative Distribution 101Fan Activism with Shawn Taylor & Katie BowersWe 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 sought-after speaker in the areas of pop culture and participatory culture studies, mythology, folk and netlore, experimental theater, and media studies. In his other life, he spent twenty years in non-profit adolescent mental health and juvenile justice work. He was a Senior Fellow with the Pop Culture Collaborative. C...
2021-12-1551 minCreative Distribution 101Director 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 Docs, and Mumbai. The Globe & Mail called Sami’s 2016 fiction debut, KHOYA, “an often startling work of compact storytelling.” His first feature documentary THE LAST OUT (with Michael Gassert) won a Special Jury Prize at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and will be released in 2022. The verite doc tells the harrowing tale of three Cuban baseball players an...
2021-12-0956 minCreative Distribution 101Director Julie CohenJulie 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 America’s food icon” Julia Child. Before she started making documentaries, Julie Cohen was a staff producer for Dateline NBC. In this episode, we're talking about fans, social media, and audience building!
2021-12-0132 minCreative Distribution 101New Season - The Power of FandomWelcome 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 guests and will dive into the Venom franchise, the Supernatural tv show, fan activism, documentaries like RBG, and much more. Tune in every week for a new episode and tell us what you think on social media, @creativedistribution on Instagram & FB, and 101distribution on Twitter! thank you!
2021-12-0100 minCreative Distribution 101Author Leigh SteinLeigh 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 in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker online, and many more publications. Leigh was also the co-founder and executive director of Out of the Binders/BinderCon, a feminist literary nonprofit organization. Her fifth book, What to Miss When, is a collection of poetry written...
2021-08-1139 minCreative Distribution 101Suhad Babaa - Just VisionSuhad 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 women at the forefront of the First Intifada in the late 80s. Suhad was also an integral member of the impact campaigns around Just Vision's critically acclaimed film Budrus, and the Peabody award-winning documentary, My Neighbourhood. She is also a producer, news publisher, media strategist, human rights advocate and leads Just Vision's journalistic efforts as the Co-Director of the a...
2021-07-0136 minCreative Distribution 101In My Blood It RunsIn 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 on Netflix. Rachel Edwardson, producer, is a Native from Alaska and her documentary series on the history of the Iñupiaq was the first all-native produced and directed history series in the United States.
2021-06-2455 minCreative Distribution 101Eliza LichtEliza 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 & Food, Inc. Currently Eliza works at Red Owl, and in this episode she discusses working on the acclaimed Netflix documentary Disclosure, and the award-winning documentaries Roll Red Roll & Belly of the Beast.
2021-06-1744 minCreative Distribution 101Vanessa Cuervo ForeroVanessa 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 peace process in Colombia, she supports the ongoing work of the Colombian Truth Commission as an advisor for Historias en Kilometros co-creating shorts with Afrocolombian teams, in order to come to terms with decades of conflict in their regions and contribute to the national historical memory. In this episode, she talks about various award-winning film projects she collaborated on.
2021-06-1045 minCreative Distribution 101Andraéa 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, executive produced by President Barack and Mrs. Michelle Obama. Andraéa is founder and president of LaVant Consulting, Inc. (LCI), a social impact communications firm that offers cutting-edge corporate development and content marketing for brands and nonprofits. LCI’s specialty is helping brands “speak disability with confidence.” Her work h...
2021-06-0335 minCreative Distribution 101Just Mercy & Represent JusticeThis 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 Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson. The campaign was launched alongside the Warner Bros. theatrical release of the film. Represent Justice’s mission is to turn stories into action to change the justice system while building the capacity of system-impacted communities. They fight for a fair legal system, dignity for system-impacted individuals and com...
2021-05-1249 min
The Savage Leader Podcast#12. “She Started It” Documentary Director Nora Poggi: Creating Equal Opportunity for Female EntrepreneursIn this episode, Darren Reinke chats with Nora Poggi, director of the award-winning documentary SHE STARTED IT. Nora talks about her journey from journalism to film making, how her films are designed to inspire and empower female entrepreneurs to take action, and how leaders and parents can create equal opportunity for women in business, film, and life. Nora Poggi is a French journalist and the director/producer of the award-winning documentary SHE STARTED IT. She was also a reporter in Silicon Valley for Examiner.com & Usine Nouvelle. She is a TEDx speaker and has been f...
2021-04-2834 min
VocationSuivre ses intuitions : partir aux US et produire un documentaire engagé - Nora Poggi (SheStartedIt)Nora avait fait Sciences Po et un échange en Floride, et est partie en stage de fin d'études à San Francisco. Déjà, elle se spécialisait en journalisme et médias, avec comme rêve, le cinéma. Coup de foudre pour les Etats Unis, elle devait rester. Mais trouver une entreprise prête à te sponsoriser le visa et te payer, ce n'est pas une mince affaire. Par le chance (ou malchance ?), elle touche suite à un accident une belle somme qui lui permet de rester et faire un job de passion - non rémunéré certes mais avec un visa à...
2021-03-281h 19Creative Distribution 101Sriyanka RaySriyanka 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 affairs programming. Her films have broadcast on U.S. public television and earned her eight NY Emmy® nominations among other accolades. In 2018, Sriyanka and her team won a NY Emmy Award for their town hall on school segregation in New York City.
2020-07-0240 minCreative Distribution 101Sonya ChildressSonya 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 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. Sonya previously held staff and consulting positions at Active Voice, California Newsreel, Kartemquin Films, ITVS, and Working Films. She founded Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship, a yearlong mentorship and training program for impact producers of color. She currently serves as a Senior Fellow with the Perspective Fund...
2020-06-1850 minCreative Distribution 101Adele 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 film of the documentary series “ America Reframed”. She’s also Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow.
2020-05-2136 minCreative Distribution 101Leah 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 Trauma You Didn’t Experience?” Her 2016 feature film, called Big Sonia, features her grandmother, Sonia Warshawski, who is one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Kansas City and one of the only survivors there who speaks publicly about her wartime experience. The film has screen...
2020-05-1434 minCreative Distribution 101James Ward Byrkit, Director of CoherenceJames 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 Co-Writer of the Academy Award-winning film Rango. "Coherence" earned critical and audience praise around the world. The film follows eight friends at a dinner party who experience a troubling chain of events due to the influence of a passing comet.
2020-05-0725 minCreative Distribution 101Deia 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 Story of Plastic, just premiered on April 22, for Earth Day, on the Discovery Channel. Previously, Deia produced the Sundance film, How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change, directed by Academy award nominee Josh Fox. She also co-produced Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock distributed on Netflix, among many...
2020-04-3028 minCreative Distribution 101Caitlin Boyle, Founder of Film SproutCaitlin 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 today. She has worked on so many award-winning and impactful documentaries, that I recommend you to watch, such as, The Invisible War, Vessel, The Hunting Ground, Fed Up, Where to Invade Next, Unrest, Whose Streets? And Trapped, which premiered at Sundance in January 2016 (and not 2015, quick correction for the...
2020-04-2343 minCreative Distribution 101Mia BrunoMia 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 Hack, Always In Season, and indie gem “306 Hollywood”, which was a recipient of the Sundance Creative Distribution Fellowship.
2020-04-1539 min
Record DeepRecord Deep #090 (09-02-2020)01. Alex Marvel - Let's Rock
02. Faddist - Hacksaw
03. The Bestseller - Outsiders
04. Busta Rhymes, Serj Kovalski - I Love My Bitch
05. Yigit Unal - Bombastic
06. C-Fast, Skinnybit - Too Much
07. Passenger 10, Nora En Pure - Monsters off My Back
08. Scott Forshaw, Greg Stainer, Skin - No More Tears
09. Chance King - Got the Stuff
10. Hoxton Whores, Sean Finn - Rock Da Move
11. Andrea Belli, Julian Moss, Elle - One More Time
12. Fergie, Will.I.Am, Kira Vell - Fergalicious
13. Andre Rizo, 84Bit - Save Me
14. Gustavo Mota, Wolfire - Grave
15. Skrillex, Kendrick Lamar, Rivas - Humble
16. Katusha Svoboda - On...
2020-02-1000 minCreative Distribution 101Heidi NelHeidi 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, Google, One Community, PBS, Peabody Awards and Media Center, Sony Pictures TV, STX Entertainment, and YouTube, as well as independent artists, filmmakers, and change-makers. Heidi has developed impact strategy and led successful engagement campaigns tied to award-winning films, such as Batkid Begins, The Best of Enemies, Food Chains, Happening, The Human Experiment, The Hunting Gr...
2019-12-2039 minCreative Distribution 101Sarah Mosses, CEO of Together FilmsSarah 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 sexual assault on college campuses, the Oscar Shortlisted documentary Unrest, by Jennifer Brea, the HBO film The Tale by Jennifer Fox with Laura Dern and Common, and they also handled the US distribution for the award-winning film Roll Red Roll by Nancy Schwartzman, tackling rape culture, among many other projects. Together Films also manages marketing...
2019-12-121h 02Creative Distribution 101Naomi McDougall JonesNaomi 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 romantic comedy about a real-life vampire and the IRS agent who audits her. The film premiered at Cinequest, and then went on to the innovative, paradigm-shifting Joyful Vampire Tour of America in summer 2019, a 51-screening, 40-city, three-month, RV-fueled event tour that involved Joyful Vampire Balls, capes, a docu-series and a whole lot of jo...
2019-11-2153 minCreative Distribution 101Emily Best, Founder & CEO, Seed&SparkEmily 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 streaming platform, which is fed by its crowdfunding platform, which has the highest campaign success rate in the world. An advocate for diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry, Best regularly speaks at conferences and events about leveraging entertainment to build equity and sustainability for everyone. In 2011, she p...
2019-11-0738 minRecord DeepRecord Deep #075 (27-10-2019)01. Sugar Hill, Natema - Contente
02. Krazyraf - I'Ll Leave
03. Flynninho - Murderous
04. Armin Van Buuren, Sleep Down - Blah Blah Blah
05. Carnao Beats, Skapes - Sex Talk
06. 20 Fingers, Grakk - Short Dick Man
07. Beatamines, Wankelmut - Third Eye
08. Boogie Bitches - Disco
09. Dance Bridge - Tommy Gun
10. Arolla, Tenacious - Dreaming
11. Passenger 10, Nora En Pure - Monsters Off My Back
12. Vinyldub Gaijim - Wait
13. 20 Fingers, Motivee - Short Dick Man!
14. Wanderlusti - Set Me Free!
15. Sloth - Dose
16. Zhu, Talano, Namatria - Nightcrawler
17. Superlover, Jay Williams - Sweat 19
18. Sasha Goodman, Roma Wind - Voco Me
19. Beth Yen - Paradise
20. Claptone...
2019-10-2800 min
Creative Distribution 101Curtis 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 Americans for Progress. His first film, Vincent Who? has screened at nearly 400 colleges, NGOs and corporations in four countries. Curtis is currently a Visiting Scholar at NYU. His documentary, "Tested," which follows a dozen racially and socioeconomically diverse eighth-graders as they fight for a seat at one of New York City’s scho...
2019-10-1742 minCreative Distribution 101Leah Meyerhoff, Founder of Film FatalesThis 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 shortlisted for the Student Academy Awards and Gotham Awards and received high profile grants from IFP, the Tribeca Film Institute and the Adrienne Shelly Foundation. She was honored with the Adrienne Shelly Director's Award and has been featured in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times. Leah also...
2019-09-3048 minCreative Distribution 101AnnouncementMark 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 Joyful Vampire Tour, and experts from Picture Motion, Together Films, The Raben Group and more !
2019-07-1001 minCreative Distribution 101Marie Judice, Founder of Indigo ImpactWelcome 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, Haiti’s first Oscar selection called AYITI MON AMOUR, and SXSW breakout JINN by Oakland native Nijla Mumin. She brings affordable music, literature, art, and performance to the Bay Area as a Co-Curator of the MATATU FESTIVAL. She sits on the Diversity Board of SF FILM and Advisory Board of Code Tenderloin. WI...
2019-04-1950 minCreative Distribution 101Robin Hauser - CODE, debugging the gender gapIn 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 industry and of policy makers in Washington, DC and abroad with hundreds of screenings around the world. Robin ran the kind of creative distribution campaign filmmakers only dream of, and shares what she learned.
2019-04-0440 minCreative Distribution 101Orly Ravid, Founder of The Film CollaborativeIn 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 Sundance, Cannes, SXSW, and many more places. Show notes: Orly focuses on removing the middlemen so more money goes back to the filmmakers. TFC Offers free education resources (Distripedia, Guides, blog), paid consultation for members and custom distribution. Will educate everyone but doesn't distribute everyone. Not every film i...
2019-03-2440 minCreative Distribution 101Sarah Moshman - The Empowerment ProjectThe "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 ! Sarah Moshman is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and TEDx speaker. Her first feature doc The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things has been screened over 700 times around the US and around the world in schools, groups, organizations and corporations starting conversations about gender equality. With Indieflix as the distributor, the...
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Creative Distribution 101Liz Manashil - Creative Distribution Initiative at SundanceThe "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 Sundance Institute. Before that, Liz spent several years as a film critic for the PBS/Hulu series JUST SEEN IT (which she also helped produce and direct). Overlapping this, Liz worked with distribution guru Peter Broderick. Her debut feature, BREAD AND BUTTER, was called “an absolute must-watch for women everywhere” by HelloGiggles. It was released by Th...
2019-01-1445 min
Tapped PodNora Poggi: She Started ItDirector and Producer Nora Poggi talks with host, Gretel about her latest film, She Started It, the movement for more female representation across industries as well as the Met Ball.
2018-05-1024 min
Victros Music; Storytelling through music combining elements of uplifting, deep, melodic house & technoOnly Good Decisions Birthday BashThis was one of my favorite events to date, celebrating @pierredebeirutmusic & Patrick's birthday! This set features some of my favorite sounds in Afro, Melodic, Tech House & Techno. The only edit was made around 58:54 when I cut out the set to sing happy birthday. :)
Hope you enjoy it and let me know what you think!
&ME, Rampa, Adam Port - Muye (Black Coffee Remix) | Keinemusik - Melodic House & Techno
Coeus - Beta (Original Mix) | Sweet Musique - Afro House
Klunsh - 239 (Original Mix) | Timeless Moment - Afro House
Enzo Elia, Musumeci - Gothic Safari (Original Mix) | Kompakt - Melodic House & Techno
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2018-05-061h 16
Her Power Hustle The Reboot! | The Power Resource for Women Entrepreneurs | Where #WEALLWINHPH 026 - Highlighting New Role Models: Women Tech Startup Founders with @SheStartedIt Director Nora PoggiDo you have to be in Silicon Valley to succeed as a tech entrepreneur? How can women and diverse aspiring tech startup founders combat pattern recognition--white men investors investing in companies led by people who look like them--other white men?
Nora Poggi is the co-producer and director of the upcoming documentary, She Started It, which follows the lives of 5 women as they build their own tech startups. Nora, now an entrepreneur herself, gives us insight on:
the importance of creating images of new role models, not just for other women, but for men--especially i...
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