I’m sure you’ve heard of the success stories about self distribution, right? Me too! But before you decide you want to self distribute your film - do your homework and explore all your options. Your decision to self distribute your film may sound exciting at first, but it could very well lead […]

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I’d like to make my first blog on Renew Media a preface for the following ones I’ll write. I have been in new media for a number of years now from internet-print to mobile-music & games and now back to internet-video, and the one take away I have from it all is that every new […]

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[Eds. note: This post is the first of several from filmmakers and programmers who are asked to address the value of the regional festival experience.]
Outside of my life as a Programmer for the Sarasota Film Festival, I’ve always been heavily invested in community building. I discovered last year that my attraction to film festivals […]

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The saga of the Federal Communications Commission and its censorship of “indecency” on radio and broadcast television may be coming to a climax in the next few months. Through a combination of administrative maneuvering and broadcast industry reluctance to challenge the same agency that gives it valuable licenses, the FCC’s constitutionally dubious censorship scheme […]

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Just back from the Impact workshop “Where Content Meets Intent: Ensuring Impact in Film”, which Renew Media organized for 11 documentary fellows. The four day program was run by Robert West and Judith Helfand of Working Films and focused on creating outreach strategies to connect film projects with audiences.
Special guest Peter Broderick presented a […]

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