Alex and Linda. One of the best of your shows, absolutely. Some hard wake-up calls for people dozing off in their precious filmmaker dreamland. So many quotes, but near the end where Linda is looking through the catalogue and says, "After two years buyers aren't even interested in looking at your (film)." Powerful comment!
Great Video! Very informative! I met Linda at the Burbank Film fest--and she was great!! I think Indie Rights is a great company and know someone who sold a film to them and is very happy!
I haven’t watched this yet, but very familiar with Linda. Alex is on a serious roll- his shows and guests have always been good, but the last few months have had some spectacular episodes.
Wow, great interview. She and Alex were a great help in explaing this intricate process and how to avoid pitfalls. Even down to the poster text and orientation etc. Thanks! I'll need to listen to this a couple more times and take better notes.
This is so helpful! It’s very encouraging and empowering information! As someone who hates social media I rejected the change for far too long. But hearing these conversations it becomes much more clear that there are indeed open avenues for independent artist!
I watched this video as I did a quick sesh on my elliptical machine and it inspired me to quit making films forever because of how depressing film distribution is.
Austin Action Fest & Market is working to help with some of the issues Linda was gracious enough to explain here. We are looking for Independent action driven films. Standalone sequences, shorts from 0 to 59 minutes all play. Submit!
How can you put your horror movie on TH-cam won’t it be taken down for violence? I’m thinking after watching this OK let me start trying to get to 1000 TH-cam subscribers and put the movie on there. But is there a good chance that you can’t put horror movies on TH-cam? Any thoughts would help I want to know if I should take this TH-cam approach seriously or not. Thank you
We have several Horror movies on our youtube channel. It just depends how violent it is. Maybe you can make an edited version, but some Horror films have just too much violence, blood and gore.
I have my horror short films on youtube & it's fine.( one has 4 million views) I still get Google adsense, even though they are about kidnapping, etc. I recommend you upload to YT, for sure.
My film A Created Life, a journey to Empowerment has not made any money lol. Distributor does no marketing. Sad . It's about forgiving a serial killer who abducted me age 14. Raped me tried to kill me. On Amazon. But not enough views.
99% of independent films are horrible and unbearable to watch. “Filmmakers” think the world owes them something just cause they made a crappy movie that no one wants to watch.
There is no indie hustle here. 99% indie film content creators is the R&D department for all the bottom feeders right above them. The %1 is always the same. Celebrity equation? MR BEAST.
Indie film is so disconnected from the reality of distribution. You got a TH-camr who spends 3-5 million per episode now who not only creates content owns the distribution pipeline globallly and has direct access to their audience data and feedback with no middlemen. Mr Beast. He makes 1 Billion bucks he ha can buy the entire indie film industry by himself. Netflix cant even afford to have him on a show cause he makes so much more money on his own channel owning all the data. We made fun of influencers, now they make fun of us. We are still discussing 10 cents per hour on this video. Zero Sum Game.
not everyone is a TH-camr with 12 million subs--many film creators dont have this following- this is just one avenue for one type of film--your first film is most likely a small under 50k piece that will have a hard time getting a well paying distro deal-- you have to start somewhere. 80-20 is very good for a Distro deal!
Thank you so much for the opportunity to share with your audience.
It's my pleasure
Alex and Linda. One of the best of your shows, absolutely. Some hard wake-up calls for people dozing off in their precious filmmaker dreamland. So many quotes, but near the end where Linda is looking through the catalogue and says, "After two years buyers aren't even interested in looking at your (film)." Powerful comment!
Great Video! Very informative! I met Linda at the Burbank Film fest--and she was great!! I think Indie Rights is a great company and know someone who sold a film to them and is very happy!
Linda Nelson is Fantastic
Such a great conversation. I plan to submit my next feature Panacea to Indie Rights next month. Fingers crossed they like it!
Good for you. Wish you the best success.
I haven’t watched this yet, but very familiar with Linda. Alex is on a serious roll- his shows and guests have always been good, but the last few months have had some spectacular episodes.
Thanks for the kind words.
So helpful! Thank you both for this fantastic interview 🙏
Thanks 😊 I'm going to have to watch this a few more times to get all the gems you dropped!
Linda is awesome
Wow, great interview. She and Alex were a great help in explaing this intricate process and how to avoid pitfalls. Even down to the poster text and orientation etc. Thanks! I'll need to listen to this a couple more times and take better notes.
This is so helpful! It’s very encouraging and empowering information! As someone who hates social media I rejected the change for far too long. But hearing these conversations it becomes much more clear that there are indeed open avenues for independent artist!
I watched this video as I did a quick sesh on my elliptical machine and it inspired me to quit making films forever because of how depressing film distribution is.
That's not inspiration. That's quitting.
Great interview and great information provided for film makers. Thank you 👍👍👍
Great stuff. Thank you Linda. And Alex. Fantastic interview.
My father always told me that selling shovels was more lucrative than mining gold during the gold rush. FYI film makers.
Great line.
Excellent interview Alex!
FABULOUS episode!! Thanks a lot!!
Great video, great info, I gained a lot of knowledge and insight
Great Interview!
Thank you so much for both of you. So useful,practical and optimistic infomation.❤
Great conversation. Love the knowlege dropped in this video.
I wish she had a better sound set up :( But I'll try to watch it, since the content seems very helpful)
Turn on captions and you won't miss a word,
Valuable. Thank you.
Austin Action Fest & Market is working to help with some of the issues Linda was gracious enough to explain here. We are looking for Independent action driven films. Standalone sequences, shorts from 0 to 59 minutes all play. Submit!
Alex you are AMAZING
Thank you for the info God bless
You tube pays so badly. Why would they praise it like this. I'm confused...
👍 👍
I would like to be come my own film distributor not sure were to start
Is this the episode where she mentions nsync? What’s the time stamp?
How can you put your horror movie on TH-cam won’t it be taken down for violence? I’m thinking after watching this OK let me start trying to get to 1000 TH-cam subscribers and put the movie on there. But is there a good chance that you can’t put horror movies on TH-cam? Any thoughts would help I want to know if I should take this TH-cam approach seriously or not. Thank you
We have several Horror movies on our youtube channel. It just depends how violent it is. Maybe you can make an edited version, but some Horror films have just too much violence, blood and gore.
I have my horror short films on youtube & it's fine.( one has 4 million views) I still get Google adsense, even though they are about kidnapping, etc. I recommend you upload to YT, for sure.
Nice content, but please pay someone to go through your subtitles.
What does MCM mean?
I think she said MCN: multi channel network. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_network
The movie biz has ruined the cinema biz.
What does urban have to do with lower class and free?
Awesome😂
Low quality sound, hurts my ears
My film A Created Life, a journey to Empowerment has not made any money lol. Distributor does no marketing. Sad . It's about forgiving a serial killer who abducted me age 14. Raped me tried to kill me. On Amazon. But not enough views.
99% of independent films are horrible and unbearable to watch. “Filmmakers” think the world owes them something just cause they made a crappy movie that no one wants to watch.
I'm making a movie for 45K -cyberpunk - animated - muppet - furry. Can I get 60K-75K? Another market I want to hit is "wholesome" films.
There is no indie hustle here. 99% indie film content creators is the R&D department for all the bottom feeders right above them. The %1 is always the same. Celebrity equation? MR BEAST.
Indie film is so disconnected from the reality of distribution. You got a TH-camr who spends 3-5 million per episode now who not only creates content owns the distribution pipeline globallly and has direct access to their audience data and feedback with no middlemen. Mr Beast. He makes 1 Billion bucks he ha can buy the entire indie film industry by himself. Netflix cant even afford to have him on a show cause he makes so much more money on his own channel owning all the data. We made fun of influencers, now they make fun of us. We are still discussing 10 cents per hour on this video. Zero Sum Game.
not everyone is a TH-camr with 12 million subs--many film creators dont have this following- this is just one avenue for one type of film--your first film is most likely a small under 50k piece that will have a hard time getting a well paying distro deal-- you have to start somewhere. 80-20 is very good for a Distro deal!