Episode 47

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10th Nov 2017

5 Best Ways to Market and Distribute Your Documentary + Conversation with Doc Filmmaker, Nathan Fitch

5 Best Ways to Market and Distribute Your Documentary

After all of the time, energy, and money spent getting one’s documentary film to completion, how does an independent documentary filmmaker market and distribute their doc once it’s finished? In this week’s opening segment we’ll discuss 5 best ways to market and distribute your documentary.

 

Podcast Conversation

And in our shared conversation, we talk with Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective alum, Nathan Fitch, whose documentary, Island Soldier, is making big waves on the documentary film circuit, including stops at Full Frame, Hot Docs, and this week, in DocNYC. Among topics discussed:

  • How a stint in the Peace Corps led to his documentary filmmaking career
  • The importance of becoming entrenched with a community that you’d like to film
  • How one goes about applying to film with the military
  • How the documentary life is not an easy one, but it’s a worthy one

 

Related Resources

Watch the trailer for Island Solider

https://vimeo.com/203928301

 

Impact Producer

Learn more about Impact Producer position & download free booklet & video! The Impact Field Guide & Toolkit

 

Places to discover more about the Impact Producer and these entities can help get your film the outreach that it deserves:

POV

Fledgling Fund

Tugg

 

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The Documentary Life
Documentary filmmaker & host, Chris G. Parkhurst, inspires & informs you on how to best live and lead your own doc life.
Have a passion for making documentary films? Want to learn how to best lead a documentary life? Join award-winning commercial and documentary filmmaker, Chris G. Parkhurst, and special industry guests as they candidly share their filmmaking stories, insights, and experiences, for all to learn how to best lead and live their own documentary dream lives.

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