Distributing and Beyond

Top Sexy Things You Get to Do When You Think Your Film is Finished

OK, so you’ve spent seven years making your indie opus, another two years playing the festival circuit and somewhere along the way you even managed to sell your film and get distribution! Hooray, you’re done and the party’s over!! Your goal by this point is undoubtedly to move on and start working on the next film.

But wait a second, just because you’ve “sold” your film and you “got” distribution doesn’t mean your job as a filmmaker is “done” (or that you finally need to stop using “air quotes”). On the contrary. You’re still staring at a 20-to-life sentence for your film. Here’re a few of the top sexy (and by sexy, I mostly mean “crappy”) things you ...

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