Description
Mapping out a diverse journey through documentary distribution, this book is a comprehensive global how-to reference guide, providing insights into the landscape of documentary distribution; targeting the right audiences to expand the reach of your documentary; and building a sustainable career.
Detailing how to prepare your documentary, strategies for crowdfunding, working with documentary organizations and online platforms and outlining the channels to consider, The Documentary Distribution Toolkit demystifies the process of distributing your documentary. Featuring case studies and interviews including filmmaker Alice Elliot, representatives from public television stations such as ARTE, ZDF, Al Jazeera, TRT (Turkey), NHK, as well as drawing on author Rachel Gordon’s over 20 years of experience working in documentary distribution. Foregrounding documentaries for non-profit and educational purposes, each chapter gives guidance on how to think locally and globally, on money matters to consider, and personal questions to answer before proceeding to help filmmakers manage their time, money and energy wisely.
This book empowers the filmmaker to distribute their documentary in an effective and strategic manner. Providing concrete advice on how to navigate the documentary ecosystem beyond the classroom, this is the ideal book for professional and emerging documentary filmmakers, as well as students who are looking to distribute their documentary films.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Paul Lewis
Preface
Chapter 1: Prepare Yourself: Think Before You Shoot
Chapter 2: The Hard Work of Crowdfunding
Chapter 3: Documentary Organizations Worth Your Time and Money
Chapter 4: Now Available Online – How to Stream
Chapter 5: Creating Community – Partnerships With Purpose
Chapter 6: Educational Facilities and Academic Professional Development
Chapter 7: Public Broadcasters and the Specialty TV Ecosystem
Glossary
Acknowledgements
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