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RSS:- Phew! Gaining audience traction is just like running a marathon… May 25, 2012 ADM
- Get outta’ here! Hollywood-style screening opportunity in New York City? Fuggedaboudit! May 25, 2012 ADM
- Go back in time for all the best trends… May 24, 2012 ADM
- Blasts from the past | how to cast A-Listers way past their prime for indie success? May 24, 2012 ADM
- What happens when stars talk about your film… May 23, 2012 ADM
- Danny Lacey UK shows us how behind-the-scenes are done May 22, 2012 ADM
- The last thing you did to market your film…? May 21, 2012 ADM
- Once you achieve a certain level of renown in indie film… May 20, 2012 ADM
- Post-IPO | Is Facebook still relevant for indie filmmakers? May 18, 2012 ADM
- Here’s what you risk when you delay audience engagement… May 17, 2012 ADM
Tag Archives: film review
How to bounce back from a failed Kickstarter campaign?
Okay, so how many of you don’t know Loren Feldman? Shame on you if you don’t. Means you’re not spending enough time online and that’s just not on, is it? Once tagged as “l’enfant terrible of Web 2.0,” the 1938 … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Audience, Blogging, Community, Crowdfunding, DIY, PR
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PMD Proverbs | Do NOT crowdfund for your entire budget!
I had the recent good fortune to give a small talk about “Crowdfunding Your Film” at Raindance Canada’s inaugural indie filmmaker guerrilla workshop on May 10th, 2012 (for “rawest of the raw” footage from the event | click here). Crowdfunding … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Audience, Blogging, Community, Crowdfunding
Tagged actor, actress, adam daniel mezei, adamdanielmezei.com, bomb it, christopher penn, derek sivers, distribution, facebook, festivals, film, film festival, film festivals, film review, film reviews, film specific, filmmaker, filmmaking, films, google, google plus, independent, independent film, independent films, indie, indies, internet marketing, john j wall, john wall, jon reiss, linked in, linkedin, managing the grey, marketing, marketing over coffee, mezei, mitch joel, pinterest, player, players, pmd, pmd-for-hire, pmdforhire.com, pmding, podcast, podcasting, pr, producer, producer of marketing and distribution, production, public relations, review, reviews, selling your film without selling your soul, six pixels of separation, stacey parks, think outside the box office, tiff, toronto international film festival, toronto tiff, twist image, twitter
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Social media is the new AM radio…
Who still listens to AM radio? ::: raises hand ::: Who even knows what AM radio sounds like, what with all these 24/96 quality audio streams around? Who recalls that scratchy, muffled, grainy, drone of your trusty radio, blaring out … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Audience, Blogging, Canada, Community, Facebook, PR, Press, Twitter
Tagged actor, actress, adam daniel mezei, adamdanielmezei.com, bomb it, christopher penn, derek sivers, distribution, facebook, festivals, film, film festival, film festivals, film review, film reviews, film specific, filmmaker, filmmaking, films, google, google plus, independent, independent film, independent films, indie, indies, internet marketing, john j wall, john wall, jon reiss, linked in, linkedin, managing the grey, marketing, marketing over coffee, mezei, mitch joel, pinterest, player, players, pmd, pmd-for-hire, pmdforhire.com, pmding, podcast, podcasting, pr, producer, producer of marketing and distribution, production, public relations, review, reviews, selling your film without selling your soul, six pixels of separation, stacey parks, think outside the box office, tiff, toronto international film festival, toronto tiff, twist image, twitter
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Go analog…mainly because it’s better than digital…
Whatever happened to analog?! It used to be so popular… I often find myself confronted by indie filmmakers who query me in the midst of their nascent crowdfunding campaigns who are totally stumped for ideas on what sort of pledge … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Audience, Blogging, Community, Crowdfunding
Tagged actor, actress, adam daniel mezei, adamdanielmezei.com, bomb it, christopher penn, derek sivers, distribution, facebook, festivals, film, film festival, film festivals, film review, film reviews, film specific, filmmaker, filmmaking, films, google, google plus, independent, independent film, independent films, indie, indies, internet marketing, john j wall, john wall, jon reiss, linked in, linkedin, managing the grey, marketing, marketing over coffee, mezei, mitch joel, pinterest, player, players, pmd, pmd-for-hire, pmdforhire.com, pmding, podcast, podcasting, pr, producer, producer of marketing and distribution, production, public relations, review, reviews, selling your film without selling your soul, six pixels of separation, stacey parks, think outside the box office, tiff, toronto international film festival, toronto tiff, twist image, twitter
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What do you look for in a workshop?
I had the good fortune of helming last night’s Raindance Canada-sponsored inaugural crowdfunding workshop at Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation (May 10, 2012), a spirited session of theory coupled with proven crowdfunding practice. For two-and-a-half hours I’d proceeded to … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Blogging, Live Events
Tagged actor, actress, adam daniel mezei, adamdanielmezei.com, bomb it, christopher penn, derek sivers, distribution, facebook, festivals, film, film festival, film festivals, film review, film reviews, film specific, filmmaker, filmmaking, films, google, google plus, independent, independent film, independent films, indie, indies, internet marketing, john j wall, john wall, jon reiss, linked in, linkedin, managing the grey, marketing, marketing over coffee, mezei, mitch joel, pinterest, player, players, pmd, pmd-for-hire, pmdforhire.com, pmding, podcast, podcasting, pr, producer, producer of marketing and distribution, production, public relations, review, reviews, selling your film without selling your soul, six pixels of separation, stacey parks, think outside the box office, tiff, toronto international film festival, toronto tiff, twist image, twitter
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Things you need to be doing every day as an independent filmmaker…
Here are several tasks you need to be doing every day as an independent filmmaker. These are things you simply can’t avoid, things you must do in order to endear yourself to your audience and place your film on the … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Audience, Blogging, DIY
Tagged actor, actress, adam daniel mezei, adamdanielmezei.com, bomb it, christopher penn, derek sivers, distribution, facebook, festivals, film, film festival, film festivals, film review, film reviews, film specific, filmmaker, filmmaking, films, google, google plus, independent, independent film, independent films, indie, indies, internet marketing, john j wall, john wall, jon reiss, linked in, linkedin, managing the grey, marketing, marketing over coffee, mezei, mitch joel, pinterest, player, players, pmd, pmd-for-hire, pmdforhire.com, pmding, podcast, podcasting, pr, producer, producer of marketing and distribution, production, public relations, review, reviews, selling your film without selling your soul, six pixels of separation, stacey parks, think outside the box office, tiff, toronto international film festival, toronto tiff, twist image, twitter
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The curse of too much free time…
Another fun chat yesterday afternoon (May 08, 2012) with Film Specific’s striving Stacey Parks, author of The Insider’s Guide to Independent Film Distribution. I always enjoy speaking with Stacey’s following since they usually pose the best questions and almost all … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Behind-The-Scenes, Blogging, Paperwork, Script
Tagged actor, actress, adam daniel mezei, adamdanielmezei.com, bomb it, christopher penn, derek sivers, distribution, facebook, festivals, film, film festival, film festivals, film review, film reviews, film specific, filmmaker, filmmaking, films, google, google plus, independent, independent film, independent films, indie, indies, internet marketing, john j wall, john wall, jon reiss, linked in, linkedin, managing the grey, mark j shields, marketing, marketing over coffee, mezei, mitch joel, pinterest, player, players, pmd, pmd-for-hire, pmdforhire.com, pmding, podcast, podcasting, pr, producer, producer of marketing and distribution, production, public relations, review, reviews, selling your film without selling your soul, six pixels of separation, stacey parks, think outside the box office, tiff, toronto international film festival, toronto tiff, twist image, twitter
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Increasing the threshold for Facebook likes…
Like me, like me, like me! Requests for knee-jerk Facebook likes…they’ve become so ubiquitous. As a tethered, always-on, society we’ve become completely inured to them and the act of liking brands’ and films’ Fan Pages has become all but moot. … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Audience, Blogging, Community, DIY, Documentary, Email Marketing, Facebook
Tagged actor, actress, adam daniel mezei, adamdanielmezei.com, amplify, bomb it, christopher penn, derek sivers, distribution, facebook, fan culture, festivals, film, film festival, film festivals, film review, film reviews, film specific, filmmaker, filmmaking, films, freemium, google, google plus, independent, independent film, independent films, indie, indies, internet marketing, john j wall, john wall, jon reiss, linked in, linkedin, managing the grey, marketing, marketing over coffee, mezei, mitch joel, pinterest, player, players, pmd, pmd-for-hire, pmdforhire.com, pmding, podcast, podcasting, pr, producer, producer of marketing and distribution, production, public relations, review, reviews, selling your film without selling your soul, six pixels of separation, stacey parks, think outside the box office, tiff, toronto international film festival, toronto tiff, twist image, twitter, we are amplify
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It’s all about the story and the dialogues, timeless elements which don’t change…
There are timeless elements about the cinematic craft which never change, no matter the season, no matter the hippest trend. When it comes to the movie business, everything almost always tracks back to the twin fundamentals of story and dialogue. … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Blogging, PMD-For-Hire, Script
Tagged actor, actress, adam daniel mezei, adamdanielmezei.com, bomb it, christopher penn, derek sivers, distribution, facebook, festivals, film, film festival, film festivals, film review, film reviews, film specific, filmmaker, filmmaking, films, google, google plus, independent, independent film, independent films, indie, indies, internet marketing, john j wall, john wall, jon reiss, linked in, linkedin, managing the grey, marketing, marketing over coffee, mezei, mitch joel, pinterest, player, players, pmd, pmd-for-hire, pmdforhire.com, pmding, podcast, podcasting, pr, producer, producer of marketing and distribution, production, public relations, review, reviews, selling your film without selling your soul, six pixels of separation, stacey parks, think outside the box office, tiff, toronto international film festival, toronto tiff, twist image, twitter
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Moral of the story: always attend the cocktail party!
A cute anecdote I often like to relate during presentations deals with the delicious unpredictability of Hollywood. It’s somewhat of a cautionary tale, one indies would derive a ton of inspiration from, giving them hope that anything can happen at … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Behind-The-Scenes, Blogging, DVD, Live Events, PR
Tagged actor, actress, adam daniel mezei, adamdanielmezei.com, bomb it, christopher penn, derek sivers, distribution, facebook, festivals, film, film festival, film festivals, film review, film reviews, film specific, filmmaker, filmmaking, films, google, google plus, independent, independent film, independent films, indie, indies, internet marketing, john j wall, john wall, jon reiss, linked in, linkedin, managing the grey, marketing, marketing over coffee, mezei, mitch joel, pinterest, player, players, pmd, pmd-for-hire, pmdforhire.com, pmding, podcast, podcasting, pr, producer, producer of marketing and distribution, production, public relations, review, reviews, selling your film without selling your soul, six pixels of separation, stacey parks, think outside the box office, tiff, toronto international film festival, toronto tiff, twist image, twitter
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