Film festivals exist for the sole purpose of putting filmmakers in touch with a larger audience and film distributors, who can help take a film from relative obscurity, to a larger audience that could help it make some real money. Withoutabox is a service that helps filmmakers submit their films to festivals electronically, using an inventory-free service that saves you the postage, which can go a long way; especially if you’re submitting your movie to every festival under the sun.
The service also helps you on the promotion level by allowing you to create your own IMDB page to give viewers additional information on your film regarding its budget, technical specs and a list of cast and crew involved in the production. Unfortuantely, right now, only feature films can take advantage of this option, with support for short films soon to come.
Through Createspace, you can make your own channel from which you can sell copies of your DVD and, if you’re a composer or musician, CD’s of your work. You get your own personal ‘E-Store’ and best of all, you retain all of the rights associated with the work. Some nominal fees apply, but the royalty fees are better than the industry average, which sees filmmakers making less from the traditional model of distribution. If you don’t want to go the Withoutabox method, you can always start your own webpage and just include a little Paypal button where people can donate whatever they see fit. This is what they did on popular web-series “The Guild” and it got them more money to put towards the production costs of future episodes.
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