Why wait for a gatekeeper when you can sell your own VOD content online? [Editor's Note: No Film School invited Amir Shahzeidi to contribute this post due to his area expertise from working at Uscreen. The views herein belong to the author.] Even as recently as a decade ago, if you were a filmmaker that wanted to get your work out to the widest possible audience, you essentially had one option available to you: Hollywood. You had an idea for a movie. You had the script, the talent, the passion and the resources necessary to get it done. Maybe you even had the money. But the actual mechanism required to get your work to audiences was something you had absolutely no control over. You essentially had to wait for a big corporation to buy your film (or hire you to make one of theirs), which ultimately meant that you also had to concede control over the vision you had in the first place. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 18 July, 2018