Foreign Sales | Filmmaker Magazine https://filmmakermagazine.com Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources. Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:51:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Jeffrey Travis on Shopping his Economic Thriller at Cannes https://filmmakermagazine.com/46153-jefrey-travis-on-shopping-his-economic-collapse-thriller-in-cannes/ https://filmmakermagazine.com/46153-jefrey-travis-on-shopping-his-economic-collapse-thriller-in-cannes/#comments Sat, 26 May 2012 16:10:21 +0000 http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/?p=46153 L.A.-based independent filmmaker Jeffrey Travis (Flatlands) brought his latest short, Pollution, to the Short Film Corner at Cannes, and he’s using the trip to also look for a foreign sales agent for his new independent feature, Dragon Day. Below he talks about stalking the aisles of the Cannes Film Market, and why he hopes international buyers will warm to a dystopian near-future drama that imagines a U.S. destroyed by a cyber attack from China. Filmmaker: So how has the Cannes Film Market been for you? Jeff Travis: It’s been interesting. Before I knew very little about the whole world of […]

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Troublemaker Studio’s Aaron Kaufman hosted a panel titled “Making it Happen: Financing an Independent Film” at SXSW this year, gathering together fellow execs Katie McNeill (V.P. of Production, Electric City Entertainment, the new venture between producers Lynette Howell and Jamie Patricof) and Garrick Dion, Senior Vice President of Development at Bold Films, and a co-producer of Drive (pictured). (Troublemaker, of course, is the production company of Robert Rodriguez.) The three offered thoughts on how to develop and put together projects able to financed in today’s independent film marketplace as well as tips on keeping that development on track. Here are […]

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