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A Marketing and Distribution Workshop

November 3rd 2023
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Think Outside the Box Office

A Marketing and Distribution Workshop

November 3rd 2023

Thank you for joining Film Fatales for an online distribution and marketing workshop with 8 Above founder Jon Reiss, a sought-after speaker, moderator, and workshop leader for IFP, IDFA, IDA, Hot Docs, FIND, Scottish Documentary Institute, and many more organizations all over the world. Every film is unique and with unique audiences, opportunities and challenges. Every filmmaking team has their own goals, resources and skills. Jon walked through some ways to create a unique pathway to get your film into the world and connect with your audience.

Jon also reviewed case studies from Film Fatales members Jasmín López (Silent Beauty), Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso (Powerlands), Nana Ghana (You Are Always Right Here), and Ruth Du (Samson). Moderated by Jennifer Takaki.

With support from event partners The Gotham, International Documentary Association, Pano Network, and Minorities in Film.

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Jon Reiss is a critically acclaimed filmmaker, author, and media strategist. His experience releasing his documentary feature, Bomb It, with a hybrid strategy was the inspiration for writing Think Outside the Box Office, the first step-by-step guide for filmmakers to distribute and market their films. He has given workshops and spoken at conferences and festivals throughout the world.

Jasmín Mara López is a Mexican-American filmmaker living between Los Angeles and New Orleans. Born in the U.S. with familial roots in México, her childhood was affected by issues experienced on both sides of the U.S.- México border. This instilled in her a strong passion for immigrant rights, youth empowerment, and social change. Jasmín founded Project Luz, which taught Mexican youth to document stories from within their communities. Her audio documentary Deadly Divide: Migrant Death on the Border received the Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism Award in 2015.

Jennifer Takaki has a background in television production. She began her career in news with a local NBC affiliate based in Denver as a production assistant. She has produced news, entertainment, and corporate videos in Hong Kong and New York City. Jennifer is the director/producer of the feature-length documentary, Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story. And she has been named a 2023 recipient for the Better Angels Lavine Fellowship, a component of The Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.

Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso is an award-winning queer Navajo filmmaker, and a recent fellow with the Firelight Media Documentary Filmmaker Lab. She started making films at the age of 9, through the Native youth media project Outta Your Backpack Media. At the age of 13 she made the award-winning fiction film In the Footsteps of Yellow Woman, based in the true story of her great-great-great grandmother Yellow Woman, who lived through the Navajo Long Walk of 1864-1868. The film screened in over 90 film festivals internationally and won 11 awards. Ivey Camille continued to refine her filmmaking craft with a full scholarship to Idyllwild Arts Academy in California. She later returned home to work on films in her community of Navajo Nation. At the age of 19, Ivey Camille began work on Powerlands, her first feature.

Recognized by Entertainment Weekly and People magazine as among the “Ones to Watch” out of Sundance 2018 for her co-starring role in White Rabbit, Writer/ Director/Actor Nana Ghana has proven her ability to stand out both on and behind the camera. Her most recent work as Director, LA Woman Rising, narrated and executive produced by Rosario Dawson, was released theatrically in October 2019. Ghana describes the project as “a love letter to the real women of Los Angeles.“ Ghana made her directorial debut with a short film entitled Water Warrior, which had the distinction of premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Ghana was later recognized as Best Director with her follow-up short film, Electing, at the Oregon Short Film Festival in 2018. As an actor, Ghana stars in her recurring role on What/If, a Netflix original series.

Ruth Du is a director and producer, originally from Portland, Oregon. She received a B.F.A. at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Du produced indie feature The Archer, which premiered at SXSW in 2017. Her directorial credits include digital series Seeking, Du was the Executive Director of the AT&T Hello Lab Mentorship Program, working closely with Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani and producing five short films. She is a 2020 Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow and currently resides in Los Angeles.

Community Partners

The International Documentary Association (IDA) supports the vital work of documentary storytellers and champions a thriving and inclusive documentary culture.

MiFILM is a community that values the quality of life of filmmakers. We are dedicated to the increased equity, inclusion and representation of marginalized groups in entertainment.

PANO (formerly NYCWF) champions inclusion in Film, TV, and Media by connecting underrepresented creators with influential networks, valuable resources, and career-changing opportunities to impact meaningful change in the industry.

The Gotham celebrates and nurtures independent film and media creators, providing career-building resources, access to industry influencers, and pathways to wider recognition.