I promise more original content soon, but I want to make sure to keep you up on all that is going on out there! Today’s New York Times reports on Amazon’s response to recent murmurings by Steve Jobs (and consumers!) to sell music  without crazy DRM to keep users from playing their legitimately purchased tunes […]

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I read in passing some posts about YouTube sharing ad revenue with its more popular content producers. I glossed over it because it seemed like old news to me. If creators want earn revenue from their video posts, post on Revver. It really works and the site just needs to reach a tipping point with […]

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At long last, another entry from me! The last few weeks have been very interesting ones for me.  And I’ve been thinking about distribution through a different lens.  As I mentioned before, this business is difficult for everybody.  There are thousands and thousands of films released every year and yet there is not an endless […]

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For Variety, Scott Kirsner reports on the new way some entrepreneurial producers are utilizing the internet to raise production budgets:
“The tactic’s been tried since the early days of the Internet, but a fresh crop of entrepreneurs thinks the time could finally be ripe.
In mid-March, Portland filmmakers Steve Herring and Rebecca Rodriguez started selling $10 ‘memberships […]

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In 2005 I gave a series of budgeting workshops at Doculink meetings in L.A., San Francisco and New York and later developed those workshops into an article called “An Introduction to Documentary Budgeting” for the IDA’s Documentary Magazine. I posted both the article and blank budget template (for Excel) on the Doculink resources page. Scroll […]

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