A Filmmaker's Life: Distributor ReportCard from The Film Collaborative

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Distributor ReportCard from The Film Collaborative

The following is a repost from awesome consultant Sheri Candler. Check out her blog!

Distributor ReportCard from The Film Collaborative

By Sheri Candler

My friends at The Film Collaborative have devised a resource for indie filmmakers to use called the Distributor ReportCard. According to their site "Distributor ReportCard™ gives filmmakers and producers a chance to SCHOOL THE DISTRIBUTORS. Write reviews, share your experiences and learn from other filmmakers' successes or mistakes.
Simply click on one of the distributors to the left and you'll be taken to the info page for that distributor. All information is gathered from their respective website and is not based on a TFC review. Speak your mind. Create or join a discussion about a specific distributor."

Some have expressed confusion over how to use the site, so this blog post should explain how to use the Distributor ReportCard.
http://bit.ly/eFtxhD

You are welcome to share experiences, good and bad, and if you don't see the name of your distributor, you can add it. While I know that many filmmakers are afraid to leave negative comments about their distributors, we will be a stronger community if we all share the knowledge we have. I think a resource like this is invaluable to helping all of us make more informed choices.

Let TFC know what you think. Leave a comment on the blog post or on their Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/thefilmcollaborative?ref=ts

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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't. - Jean-Luc Godard

To have a life as a filmmaker, you must continue to make films. Like filmmaking, being a filmmaker is a process. It demands education, experience and exposure.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things, but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all. - John Cassavetes

Good is the enemy of great. Look beyond praise to the truth of what you're creating.

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema. - Andrei Tarkovsky

Be a true filmmaker, a true creative being. Not a merchant. Make films from and for your soul.

Some rainy winter Sunday when there's a little boredom, you should carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice. - Lina Wertmuller

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. - Krzysztof Kieslowski

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I formulated my own directing style in my own head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others…for me there was no such thing as a teacher. I have relied entirely on my own strength. - Yasujiro Ozu