Thank you for the transparency and detail! This really resonates, "Distribution is part of making a film and needs to be just as strategic, creative, and contextual to your film as its team, artistic vision, and style. Put another way, the goals of your distribution plan should be aligned with the goals of your film. This should be true regardless of who is distributing your film."
Thank you for this amazing, transparent write up! As an independent film company with four films on our slate, three of them docs, this article and the insights you have shared are Godsend. We will be sharing and discussing it internally. Good luck with the continuous journey of “Union”. Excited to see the film!🎥 🍿
Thank you SO MUCH to the UNION team for this comprehensive and insightful peek. And to DA for having the foresight to make these case studies a part of your mandate.
I'd like to add another dimension to the point raised about foundations not supporting the film in the runup to the 2024 election: in fundraising for NO TIME TO FAIL and THE OFFICIALS, we were also told by institutional funders that they were not in a position to support "projects" AT ALL, ever. The issue isn't that films aren't 501c3's -- as we all know, fiscal sponsorship checks that box -- it's that they aren't traditional nonprofit organizations with track records, long horizons, staffs, etc etc etc. Perhaps others have encountered this response as well.
Thank you for the transparency and detail! This really resonates, "Distribution is part of making a film and needs to be just as strategic, creative, and contextual to your film as its team, artistic vision, and style. Put another way, the goals of your distribution plan should be aligned with the goals of your film. This should be true regardless of who is distributing your film."
Thank you for this amazing, transparent write up! As an independent film company with four films on our slate, three of them docs, this article and the insights you have shared are Godsend. We will be sharing and discussing it internally. Good luck with the continuous journey of “Union”. Excited to see the film!🎥 🍿
Very inspiring for me as I make my first documentary on activists.
Thank you SO MUCH to the UNION team for this comprehensive and insightful peek. And to DA for having the foresight to make these case studies a part of your mandate.
I'd like to add another dimension to the point raised about foundations not supporting the film in the runup to the 2024 election: in fundraising for NO TIME TO FAIL and THE OFFICIALS, we were also told by institutional funders that they were not in a position to support "projects" AT ALL, ever. The issue isn't that films aren't 501c3's -- as we all know, fiscal sponsorship checks that box -- it's that they aren't traditional nonprofit organizations with track records, long horizons, staffs, etc etc etc. Perhaps others have encountered this response as well.