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The Gray of Beer Distributors Pay-to-Play Needs to Change
http://goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2016/8/8/critical-drinking-the-gray-of-pay-to-play @goodbeerhunting
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The Gray of Beer Distributors Pay-to-Play Needs to Change
http://goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2016/8/8/critical-drinking-the-gray-of-pay-to-play @goodbeerhunting
CHANGE BEER LAWS - PRO SELF-DISTRIBUTION
What if we passed a law that made it illegal for Apple to sell the iPhone directly to you? That’s exactly what’s happened with craft beer.
Certain people have built their business model around these regulations and certain people have incurred a lot of costs as a result of these regulations.
So if I’m a beer distributor, I’ve built my entire business around the idea that brewers have to sell their beer through me. If we deregulate the industry and no longer make it mandatory that brewers sell through me as a distributor, I lose my beer distribution business. So I have a financial interest in seeing that these regulations remain in place because I’ll ultimately lose long-term if they don’t stay, no matter what the consequences would be for the consumers.
This article was originally published on jonreiss.com 1. “I don’t need to worry about distribution—a company will buy my film and do that for me.” Unfortunately the...
Warning: This blog post is only for those who want a bigger audience than thier 3 dogs and thier mom.
(Read more here and watch the trailer to TENTACLE )
I Wouldn't Recommend Self-Financing a Movie, Unless it's a Question of Quitting Your Dream and Doing Something Else by John Chi of TENTACLE 8 - The film will screen at NYC’ Anthology Film Archives June 18-24, 2015
FilmCourage: Did your parents lend support toward creativity or encourage another type of career/focus?
John: My dad was an aerospace engineer and my mom was an accountant, and together they provided our family with a comfortable life. Like all parents, I think they just wanted me to be self sufficient one day. While I don't think they were unsupportive, they certainly tried to steer my career focus towards professions that provided a certain amount of financial stability. Prior to going to film school, I worked in management consulting for about 10 years. Had I not done that, I wouldn't have had the means/savings to go to film school, or had the resources to make my first feature film. So their influence had an impact.
FilmCourage: First memory of going to the movies?
John: I don't know exactly what my first movie going memory is, but I remember a very early experience, which as it turns out, had a profound influence on me as a filmmaker. I remember sitting in a theater packed full with people, watching people who were whispering, and standing in shadows. I couldn't see or hear anything very clearly, and definitely didn't understand anything that was going on. I couldn't sit still, and kept getting "shushed." It was the worst two hours of my life.
Years later, I learned this movie was All The President's Men, which was one my main inspirations behind TENTACLE 8.
FilmCourage: What were your plans after high school?
John: I wasn't an exceptional student in high school, but I did well enough. Probably the least gifted student in a class full of 5.0 over achievers. I was good at sports, in a school known for its outstanding academics. That kind of sums it up. I made my first films in French class, as part of my "class assignments." Where most kids were giving lessons on how to make croissants I was doing Siskel and Ebert parody reviews of Bruce Lee movies, in French. It was pretty ridiculous, but I had a ton of fun doing them.
I went to The University of California, Berkeley, where my dad earned his Ph.D in engineering, not really knowing what I would focus my studies on. Not engineering. I really had no strong desire to pursue anything in particular, but at that time, I didn't consider a career in the arts.
FilmCourage: If you recommend this self-fund method to other filmmakers, what also has to be present in order to take this risk?
John: Again, I wouldn't recommend self-financing, unless it's a question of quitting your dream and doing something else. If that's the decision, then you have to decide what's more important. It's reckless and foolish to think you're going to spend your retirement money and become successful enough to overcome that kind of risk. Chances are you won't. But sometimes you need to go out there without a safety net, in order to pursue something with that kind of live or die desperation and relentlessness that's necessary to succeed.
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This article by Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez about the distribution of their Detroit firefighter documentary Burn originally appeared in our Fall, 2013 print
Racking Focus: Self-Distribution and the Niche-ifying of Content
Shane Carruth's Upstream Color is a great example of a director who made exactly the type of film he wanted through shrewd distribution and marketing choices. In this landscape, is a tiny niche all a filmmaker needs?