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GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – READER Q & A EPISODE FOUR Hi everyone. Welcome to episode four of our Reader Q & A series. Like the previous three installments, the following questions came in from our readers. So, without …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – “…AND THE BEST PICTURE GOES TO ANOTHER SMALL FILM!” When something unexpected happens at the Oscars, everyone says it’s a “rarity.” When it happens two times in a row, it’s a “coincidence.” A …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – DISTRIBUTING POLITICAL FILMS Since yesterday was Presidents Day, one of the more forgettable holidays of the year, because it’s constantly overshadowed by the much more aggressively marketed Valentines Day, I’d like to dive …

GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: VALENTINES DAY RELEASES! Happy Valentines Day, everyone! I hope your film career is as amazing as your love life, or vice versa depending on which one is further ahead! Since today is a …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – READER Q & A EPISODE THREE! Ever since we published our first Reader Q&A edition on January 17, I’ve received a flurry of insightful questions from our readers. Thus, today I’ve wrangled three …

GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – CHANGE OF TITLE… A few days ago, Jack Moik, the director of Nydenion, the German sci-fi film that my company represents, sent me a trailer of his film’s upcoming release in France. While I …

GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: READER Q&A EPISODE TWO Hi everyone. I hope all of you had a wonderful week. Today we’re going to answer more reader questions. Like last week, I’m focusing on questions that will be …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – READER Q&A EPISODE ONE Welcome to the 88th edition of Going Bionic. Soon after last week’s column was published, one of our readers emailed me a few questions that they would like to …

GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – NON-EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION CONTRACTS ARE NON-STARTERS Over the last few years, the film industry has seen a rash of online distributors offering non-exclusive contracts to indie filmmakers who crave to have their films …

GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – MY BIONIC 2012! Happy New Year! I hope your turn of the calendar was eventful, memorable and safe.  Mine was spent with my six month-old daughters. Feeding them, changing them, and being …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – 2011 YEAR-IN-REVIEW Happy holidays and welcome to the Going Bionic 2011 Year-In-Review. Today we’re going to look back at topics that charted the waters this column sailed through in 2011. We will include …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – FIVE THINGS NOT TO DO UNTIL 2012 Last week discussed five strategic career moves for you to do before today, so now we’re going to go over five moves not to make until the first …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – FIVE THINGS FOR YOU TO DO BEFORE NEXT TUESDAY! Today is the 13th day of the 12th month of the 11th year of our century. Do you know where your film career is? Is it on-track …

GOING BIONIC – DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY: FROM ZERO TO FILMMAKER IN 48 HOURS… Two weeks ago, Going Bionic discussed professional development opportunities at UCLA and Sundance, as part two of our series on “Breaking In From The Outside.” Then, after last week’s Thanksgiving …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – THE MUPPETS! I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. I spent mine enjoying “Thanksgiving salmon,” changing diapers and attending the heart wrenchingly depressing 50-0 massacre of my UCLA football team …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – BREAKING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE, PART 2: OPPORTUNITIES AT UCLA & SUNDANCE Hi Everyone. I hope all of you are gearing up for a wonderfully relaxing Thanksgiving weekend. Even though I gave up …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – BREAKING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE, PART 1. This past Wednesday, November 9, The Independent Filmmakers Collation of Kansas City and Women In Film – KC, flew me back to my hometown to hold …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – RESOURCES FOR WOMEN FILMMAKERS; WOMEN FILMMAKERS PART 2 Hi everybody. I hope you had a week filled with priceless career progress, or at least filled with a touch of hope. After taking a …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – HALLOWEEN DISTRIBUTION TRENDS I hope everyone enjoyed one hell of a scare on Halloween night. I spent the evening dressing up my four-month old twin daughters in ladybug costumes, taking them on their …

GOING BIONIC: DISTRIBUTING INDEPENDENT FILMS INTERNATIONALLY – THE LADY FILMMAKERS FILM FESTIVAL; WOMEN FILMMAKERS PART 1 Welcome to the 76th, “Spirit of 76” edition, of Going Bionic. Since the word “spirit” reminds me of freedom and liberation, this week and next we will focus …