Editor’s note—It seems so many moons ago—but it was only last year—when filmmaker Doug Block took that one giant leap for filmkind and launched his
Distribution
The Internet is defined and perpetuated by communities of interest, rather than by regional communities. Whereas broadcast stations reach audiences in
The breadth and depth of the Internet are unfathomable--in both the information it contains and the services it provides. I can now work, shop for
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
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
Women Make Movies (WMM) is a nonprofit media arts organization that facilitates the production, dissemination and exhibition of independent films by
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
California Newsreel, a media arts center and nonprofit distributor of films on African-American themes, created the Library of African Cinema in 1991
Fanlight Productions has produced and distributed independent film and video since 1980, specializing in health, mental health, disability and family
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