18 TV and Streaming

You may have been lucky enough that your distributor will be selling your film to TV networks or streaming sites. Your film can also be sold via sales agents working on your behalf—Submarine, Cinematic Media, and Film Sales Company are some companies. These agents will approach you or you can approach them before you have your festival premiere so that they can attend with you and represent your film. They do generally only attend the major festivals however.

Digital Streaming

You may have been fortunate enough to have found an agent to represent you that could sell your film to the streaming platforms. Please note that it is useful to be aware of the opportunities of releasing your films at different times on the digital ...

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