The Artists: Arts, Culture, and Cinema with Suchita Bhhatia

Most of your answers on indie film distribution  will hopefully be answered in this podcast, by this very rare conversation with one of the 

prominent indie film distributors Mr. Sailesh Dave.  

The conversation includes:

1) Picking up the Sundance select- Taking the Horse to Have Jalebis- for international distribution

2) Strategy to distribute a low budget indie film 

3) Distribution strategies for a big vs a small  budget film 

4) Challenges to produce and distribute a small budget film like Sulaimani Keeda

5) Future of content creation and the role of algorithms

6) Distribution to Production- THEATRE EFFICIENCY INDEX.

 

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Jonathan Wysocki a Sundance alumni shares his experience on crowdfunding his film DRAMARAMA on #KICKSTARTER

1)  Running your crowdfunding campaign -private equity, an email database, marketing, reaching the right people

2) USP of your campaign.

3)Budgeting your crowdfunded film

4)Indie vs the studio: dreading the studio system

5) Self-distribution: Sundance creative distribution initiative

6) WGA VS AGENCY

7) LA Film industry- THE GRASS IS NOT GREENER ON ANY SIDE

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Jonathan Wysocki a Sundance alumni shares his experience on crowdfunding his film DRAMARAMA on #KICKSTARTER

1)  Running your crowdfunding campaign -private equity, an email database, marketing, reaching the right people

2) USP of your campaign.

3)Budgeting your crowdfunded film

4)Indie vs the studio: dreading the studio system

5) Self-distribution: Sundance creative distribution initiative

6) WGA VS AGENCY

7) LA Film industry- THE GRASS IS NOT GREENER ON ANY SIDE

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Winner of the Golden Leopard,  A Land Imagined is now on Netflix. Had super fun chatting with director Siew Hua. 

Some Great Take-Aways:

1) Choosing a story to tell. Why that #story? 

2) Filmmaking in Singapore- the scale of the industry and does that also influence the choice of the subject.

3) Handling rejections on the journey

4) Philosophy and weaving the story with it.

5) Genre vs style 

6) Qualities of a filmmaker

7) GO watch the eternal- 2001 space odyssey Stanley Kubrick

 

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Winner of the Golden Leopard,  A Land Imagined is now on Netflix. Had super fun chatting with director Siew Hua. 

Some Great Take-Aways:

1) Choosing a story to tell. Why that #story? 

2) Filmmaking in Singapore- the scale of the industry and does that also influence the choice of the subject.

3) Handling rejections on the journey

4) Philosophy and weaving the story with it.

5) Genre vs style 

6) Qualities of a filmmaker

7) GO watch the eternal- 2001 space odyssey Stanley Kubrick

 

THIS EPISODE IS BROUGH TO YOU BY METAPHYSICAL LAB

Attributes and courtesies: Music- "Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Vector Image- FREEPIK.COM

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Had this amazing chat with Sunil Nair ( currently COO of ALT BALAJI)

Some great take aways:

1) Questioning why it's called OVER THE TOP

2) Downloading  the app vs active subscribers

3) Artificial intelligence and machine learning (the present and the future)- are we doomed or on the way? 

and why do we need #human content curation

4) Appointment viewing - solo viewing and it's implications

5) Apple TV. 

 

THIS EPISODE IS BROUGH TO YOU BY METAPHYSICAL LAB

Attributes and courtesies: Music- "Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Had this amazing chat with Sunil Nair ( currently COO of ALT BALAJI)

Some great take aways:

1) Questioning why it's called OVER THE TOP

2) Downloading  the app vs active subscribers

3) Artificial intelligence and machine learning (the present and the future)- are we doomed or on the way? 

and why do we need #human content curation

4) Appointment viewing - solo viewing and it's implications

5) Apple TV. 

 

THIS EPISODE IS BROUGH TO YOU BY METAPHYSICAL LAB

Attributes and courtesies: Music- "Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Vector Image- FREEPIK.COM

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Very insightful conversation with Anders straight from Denmark. 

Some great takeaways while we discussed the process and principles of editing:

1) The qualities of an editor

2) Collaborating with a director and fitting into/ enhancing his/her vision- finding the good marriage.

3)Placing the audience in the scene and not looking at the scene

4) The most interesting ways to engage the clever audience

5) Working on the wall.

6) How themes and characters can beautifully enhance storytelling more than the problems. 

7) The #Danish government and the culture focusses on developing the cinema language and not just making commercial block busters.

8) how #filmbazaar is doing it's bit in the #cinema space

9) And why you don't have to always make #perfect #films

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Very insightful conversation with Anders straight from Denmark. 

Some great takeaways while we discussed the process and principles of editing:

1) The qualities of an editor

2) Collaborating with a director and fitting into/ enhancing his/her vision- finding the good marriage.

3)Placing the audience in the scene and not looking at the scene

4) The most interesting ways to engage the clever audience

5) Working on the wall.

6) How themes and characters can beautifully enhance storytelling more than the problems. 

7) The #Danish government and the culture focusses on developing the cinema language and not just making commercial block busters.

8) how #filmbazaar is doing it's bit in the #cinema space

9) And why you don't have to always make #perfect #films

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Had this very interesting chat with filmmaker & woman filmmaker #Sabiha Sumar:

This episode highlights her challenges of navigating her journey through her various award winning films.

Important pointers you will take from this episode:

1) Challenges n #mental toughness needed in this  profession.

2) Choosing a #story n making it #universal.

3)Challenges of making #Khamosh Paani (22 funding institutes & other hurdles)

4) Tough decisions to take when holding your ground personally n professionally.

5) Uncertainty n unpredictability of fundings.

6) Mind n heart balance.

 

THIS EPISODE IS BROUGH TO YOU BY METAPHYSICAL LAB

Attributes and courtesies: Music- "Hard Boiled" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

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