As you may know, I spend a lot of my days roaming the globe attending film festivals and markets, searching for new acquisitions and watching a heck of a lot of films. So here are ten which I have really enjoyed, and will, with all likelihood, be seen across our way sometime soon. About half of these ... Read on.
To follow up from my last post I thought it would be a good idea to write the opposite angle. As opposed to ‘how to buy a film’, perhaps I should write about how to sell a movie. If you’re a producer, director or write... Read on.
One of the questions I get asked a lot is, how does it actually work? How do you buy a film? As I’ve said in a previous post, we buy movies for Australia and New Zealand. The rights we buy generally include theatrical, vide... Read on.
Buying films to distribute in New Zealand and Australia from Cannes Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival…when I tell people what I do, almost everyone tells me it’s the best job they’ve ever heard of, and then immediately asks how the heck I got into it, thereby inferring they’d prefer I step aside ... Read on.
FILM DISTRIBUTION, noun: the process of trawling the depths of film markets and festivals worldwide for awesome movies, acquiring them, and putting them on cinema screens and DVD shelves. This blog is from the industry perspe... Read on.
A source of constant frustration for many of you lovely Flicks readers – based on comments on Flicks and emails we get – is the delay between a movie being released overseas and here in New Zealand. The hype build... Read on.