THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX office

Much has been said and written about the current distribution crises of independent films. We are in the midst of a new world order or crisis;

NEW MEDIA demands NEW DISTRIBUTION

This is my own horror story: In 2007, I was at the Tribeca film festival where I was trying to sell my documentary “Bomb It.” We did everything by the old school book, kept the screeners a secret, we spent $20,000 launching the film at the festival, with the result of packed houses and hundreds of people turned away. After all the excitement, what we had were a few $10,000 all rights deals that we rejected. A week after Tribeca, our film was available for sale on Canal Street — as a bootleg.


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