This is a new way of making and distributing movies that I am practicing with my new movie The Secret Society For Slow Romance - a comedy that had to be made in a very minimalist way during the pandemic of 2020. What was caused by necessity may actually be an interesting and effective way to make and distribute a movie. I call it the Individual Filmmaker Project method. Basically we bring the entire filmmaking and distribution, marketing, sales operation down to one person - primarily - the filmmaker. So it is similar to an artist making and selling a painting, a writer writing and publishing a book - so on... The method - the filmmaker produces, writes, shoots, edits, directs the movie. And in my case I also acted in the movie - as one of the two actors. And the filmmaker submits the movie to festivals, comes up with a distribution strategy - carries it out - working with interested festivals, indie theaters, getting the film on VOD, making and selling Blu-rays, and workin...
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