Startup Film School with Stacey Parks of FilmSpecific.com

Stacey takes a look back at 2015, and takes a peak at 2016.

Every May buyers, sellers, filmmakers, journalists, and lots and lots of gawkers descend on the South of France for the Cannes Film Festival and Market. In this podcast Film Specific founder Stacey Parks disseminates how to fully leverage the tremendous opportunities to be had at the Cannes Film Market, whether or not you're attending.

In this podcast Stacey discusses:

• What her Cannes preparation looked like

• Why this year is different for her than years past

• What you can do to maximize your time in Cannes if you're attending

• How you can leverage Cannes even if you're not going

In this podcast Film Specific founder Stacey Parks discusses the importance of assessing marketplace viability for your film before you make it.

In this podcast Stacey discusses:

• What is Strategic Producing

• Why should you care about marketplace viability

• What festivals & markets have to do with it

• How to increase the commercial prospects for your film

• How to tap into market intelligence from home, without traveling to festivals and markets

• and more

As 2014 is coming to a close, instead of talking about what I see as trends for 2015 I want to be a little more productive and talk about some overall strategies that you might want to implement if you have a project in development that you'd like to get off the ground in 2015, or at least move forward in any significant way.

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Juliane Block, a writer/director from Berlin joined my Producers Incubator program earlier this year when she committed to doing things differently this time around.

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We first met independent producer Victoria Westcott of Elgin Road Productions when she enrolled in Film Specific's Producers Incubator in 2013. 18 months later she has a film that just made several pre-sales at AFM and is getting ready to go into production. She's also prepping a second film for pre-sales in 2015

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In this podcast Film Specific founder Stacey Parks looks at 5 ways indie filmmakers can benefit from the American Film Market (AFM) whether they're attending or not.

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The truth is that probably 90% of films, if not more, won't break even let alone profit from self distribution. Especially as you get higher and higher up in the budget ranges, it becomes harder to break even or profit when you're selling $4.99 downloads, $10 DVD's and spending money on marketing and promotion.

But it's not impossible!

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As the popularity of VOD and digital distribution grows and grows, the rules are being rewritten fast - releasing windows are now emerging, certain distribution platforms are looking for exclusives, and some platforms are even limiting direct to consumer sales.

In this seminar VOD expert and digital aggregator Linda Nelson of IndieRights walks us through many of the changes taking place within the VOD landscape and discusses the emergence of digital release windows.

In this seminar Linda discusses:

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