Alex and Linda. One of the best of your shows, absolutely. Some hard wake-up calls for people dozing off in their precious filmmaker dreamland. So many quotes, but near the end where Linda is looking through the catalogue and says, "After two years buyers aren't even interested in looking at your (film)." Powerful comment!
Great Video! Very informative! I met Linda at the Burbank Film fest--and she was great!! I think Indie Rights is a great company and know someone who sold a film to them and is very happy!
Wow, great interview. She and Alex were a great help in explaing this intricate process and how to avoid pitfalls. Even down to the poster text and orientation etc. Thanks! I'll need to listen to this a couple more times and take better notes.
I haven’t watched this yet, but very familiar with Linda. Alex is on a serious roll- his shows and guests have always been good, but the last few months have had some spectacular episodes.
This is so helpful! It’s very encouraging and empowering information! As someone who hates social media I rejected the change for far too long. But hearing these conversations it becomes much more clear that there are indeed open avenues for independent artist!
I watched this video as I did a quick sesh on my elliptical machine and it inspired me to quit making films forever because of how depressing film distribution is.
Austin Action Fest & Market is working to help with some of the issues Linda was gracious enough to explain here. We are looking for Independent action driven films. Standalone sequences, shorts from 0 to 59 minutes all play. Submit!
How can you put your horror movie on UA-cam won’t it be taken down for violence? I’m thinking after watching this OK let me start trying to get to 1000 UA-cam subscribers and put the movie on there. But is there a good chance that you can’t put horror movies on UA-cam? Any thoughts would help I want to know if I should take this UA-cam approach seriously or not. Thank you
We have several Horror movies on our youtube channel. It just depends how violent it is. Maybe you can make an edited version, but some Horror films have just too much violence, blood and gore.
I have my horror short films on youtube & it's fine.( one has 4 million views) I still get Google adsense, even though they are about kidnapping, etc. I recommend you upload to YT, for sure.
My film A Created Life, a journey to Empowerment has not made any money lol. Distributor does no marketing. Sad . It's about forgiving a serial killer who abducted me age 14. Raped me tried to kill me. On Amazon. But not enough views.
99% of independent films are horrible and unbearable to watch. “Filmmakers” think the world owes them something just cause they made a crappy movie that no one wants to watch.
Indie film is so disconnected from the reality of distribution. You got a UA-camr who spends 3-5 million per episode now who not only creates content owns the distribution pipeline globallly and has direct access to their audience data and feedback with no middlemen. Mr Beast. He makes 1 Billion bucks he ha can buy the entire indie film industry by himself. Netflix cant even afford to have him on a show cause he makes so much more money on his own channel owning all the data. We made fun of influencers, now they make fun of us. We are still discussing 10 cents per hour on this video. Zero Sum Game.
not everyone is a UA-camr with 12 million subs--many film creators dont have this following- this is just one avenue for one type of film--your first film is most likely a small under 50k piece that will have a hard time getting a well paying distro deal-- you have to start somewhere. 80-20 is very good for a Distro deal!
There is no indie hustle here. 99% indie film content creators is the R&D department for all the bottom feeders right above them. The %1 is always the same. Celebrity equation? MR BEAST.
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Thank you so much for the opportunity to share with your audience.
It's my pleasure
Alex and Linda. One of the best of your shows, absolutely. Some hard wake-up calls for people dozing off in their precious filmmaker dreamland. So many quotes, but near the end where Linda is looking through the catalogue and says, "After two years buyers aren't even interested in looking at your (film)." Powerful comment!
Great Video! Very informative! I met Linda at the Burbank Film fest--and she was great!! I think Indie Rights is a great company and know someone who sold a film to them and is very happy!
Linda Nelson is Fantastic
Such a great conversation. I plan to submit my next feature Panacea to Indie Rights next month. Fingers crossed they like it!
Good for you. Wish you the best success.
Wow, great interview. She and Alex were a great help in explaing this intricate process and how to avoid pitfalls. Even down to the poster text and orientation etc. Thanks! I'll need to listen to this a couple more times and take better notes.
Thanks 😊 I'm going to have to watch this a few more times to get all the gems you dropped!
Great interview and great information provided for film makers. Thank you 👍👍👍
So helpful! Thank you both for this fantastic interview 🙏
I haven’t watched this yet, but very familiar with Linda. Alex is on a serious roll- his shows and guests have always been good, but the last few months have had some spectacular episodes.
Thanks for the kind words.
This is so helpful! It’s very encouraging and empowering information! As someone who hates social media I rejected the change for far too long. But hearing these conversations it becomes much more clear that there are indeed open avenues for independent artist!
Great stuff. Thank you Linda. And Alex. Fantastic interview.
FABULOUS episode!! Thanks a lot!!
Linda is awesome
Excellent interview Alex!
Great video, great info, I gained a lot of knowledge and insight
Thank you so much for both of you. So useful,practical and optimistic infomation.❤
Great conversation. Love the knowlege dropped in this video.
My father always told me that selling shovels was more lucrative than mining gold during the gold rush. FYI film makers.
Great line.
Great Interview!
I watched this video as I did a quick sesh on my elliptical machine and it inspired me to quit making films forever because of how depressing film distribution is.
That's not inspiration. That's quitting.
I wish she had a better sound set up :( But I'll try to watch it, since the content seems very helpful)
Turn on captions and you won't miss a word,
Valuable. Thank you.
Alex you are AMAZING
Is this the episode where she mentions nsync? What’s the time stamp?
Austin Action Fest & Market is working to help with some of the issues Linda was gracious enough to explain here. We are looking for Independent action driven films. Standalone sequences, shorts from 0 to 59 minutes all play. Submit!
Thank you for the info God bless
I would like to be come my own film distributor not sure were to start
How can you put your horror movie on UA-cam won’t it be taken down for violence? I’m thinking after watching this OK let me start trying to get to 1000 UA-cam subscribers and put the movie on there. But is there a good chance that you can’t put horror movies on UA-cam? Any thoughts would help I want to know if I should take this UA-cam approach seriously or not. Thank you
We have several Horror movies on our youtube channel. It just depends how violent it is. Maybe you can make an edited version, but some Horror films have just too much violence, blood and gore.
I have my horror short films on youtube & it's fine.( one has 4 million views) I still get Google adsense, even though they are about kidnapping, etc. I recommend you upload to YT, for sure.
What does MCM mean?
I think she said MCN: multi channel network. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_network
You tube pays so badly. Why would they praise it like this. I'm confused...
What does urban have to do with lower class and free?
👍 👍
Nice content, but please pay someone to go through your subtitles.
The movie biz has ruined the cinema biz.
Low quality sound, hurts my ears
Awesome😂
My film A Created Life, a journey to Empowerment has not made any money lol. Distributor does no marketing. Sad . It's about forgiving a serial killer who abducted me age 14. Raped me tried to kill me. On Amazon. But not enough views.
I'm making a movie for 45K -cyberpunk - animated - muppet - furry. Can I get 60K-75K? Another market I want to hit is "wholesome" films.
99% of independent films are horrible and unbearable to watch. “Filmmakers” think the world owes them something just cause they made a crappy movie that no one wants to watch.
Indie film is so disconnected from the reality of distribution. You got a UA-camr who spends 3-5 million per episode now who not only creates content owns the distribution pipeline globallly and has direct access to their audience data and feedback with no middlemen. Mr Beast. He makes 1 Billion bucks he ha can buy the entire indie film industry by himself. Netflix cant even afford to have him on a show cause he makes so much more money on his own channel owning all the data. We made fun of influencers, now they make fun of us. We are still discussing 10 cents per hour on this video. Zero Sum Game.
not everyone is a UA-camr with 12 million subs--many film creators dont have this following- this is just one avenue for one type of film--your first film is most likely a small under 50k piece that will have a hard time getting a well paying distro deal-- you have to start somewhere. 80-20 is very good for a Distro deal!
There is no indie hustle here. 99% indie film content creators is the R&D department for all the bottom feeders right above them. The %1 is always the same. Celebrity equation? MR BEAST.