How to Get Press for Your Film via Podcasts & Articles
The hosts of Just Shoot It Matt Enlow and Oren Kaplan interview the Editor in Chief of No Film School, George Edelman
What to include in a pitch to post your story on blog or on podcast for No Film School podcast
Press kit (usually NFS only gets them from studios and big pr companies):
Write the story* & pitch it with headline/Headline ideas
Google doc is useful b/c can pull it, strip it for website
Images in there less than 1 MG images, hi-res, stills, behind the scenes images (Bts images), trailer link on YT or Vimeo
*Story about making your film with interesting process or angle do well.
250 words - what tarantino said last night
How you made film 500+ words
Educational angle thats unique
Get prescriptive about what you did on your film.
Break it down so it’s actionable and you can say oh this is how they did that and I can do that.
From someone underrepresented or diverse. It’s a different perspective, background, approach to the world, break some ground in terms of what we are seeing. Lead with that if there is a perspective.
What Just Shoot It podcast wants in their pitches
Here’s a unique filmmaker, a voice we haven’t heard before, that matches our audience profile.
Audience Profile: The working class filmmaker
A second time or more filmmaker or someone with a real breakout movie that is mid career trajectory.
We’re gonna know how famous they are in a year or two... I love talking to people in the middle of a transition. Underrepresented or diverse.
Someone I’m curious about how they did something.