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Distribution
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Any successful documentary maker will tell you that it’s much easier have a brilliant idea, than it is to get a brilliant idea produced—particularly
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The co-founders of Northeast Historic Film (NHF) became video distributors by accident. In 1986, David Weiss and Karan Sheldon had completed a 30-min
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Women Make Movies (WMM) is a nonprofit media arts organization that facilitates the production, dissemination and exhibition of independent films by
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Direct Cinema Limited, founded in 1974 as an educational media distributor, has been selling home videos since the mid-1980s. In the past five years
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California Newsreel, a media arts center and nonprofit distributor of films on African-American themes, created the Library of African Cinema in 1991
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Fanlight Productions has produced and distributed independent film and video since 1980, specializing in health, mental health, disability and family
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In the mid-1980s, with the home video revolution in full swing, independent video makers and distributors watched carefully to see what the new format
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The distribution of audiovisual works to educational and individual users, unlike that of printed materials (books), has a relatively short history
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We are told that 100 years ago, when our grandparents first saw the films of the Lumiere brothers, they were astounded and came in droves to see more