These days filmmakers need to have a serious Plan B when it comes to Distribution. Festivals have become a great opportunity to not only showcase your work, but to leverage for a self-distribution campaign. While fewer and fewer films actually get distribution deals actually AT festivals, it's critical to profit from your experience there as much as possible.

In this Premium Seminar we discuss:

• Why you need to leverage festival buzz immediately, and not wait till you get a traditional release
• Why you should leverage festivals as a theatrical premiere for your own theatrical self-release
• What a self-theatrical releasing plan looks like and how you can put it to work for you
• why creating one awareness campaign is better than two
• And much more

For more in-depth tools and resources covering all aspects of getting your independent films made, seen and distributed worldwide, BECOME A FILM SPECIFIC MEMBER.

About the Instructor

Stacey Parks is an expert in the area of independent film distribution, with over 13 years experience working with independent film producers. As a Foreign Sales Agent she has secured distribution for hundreds of independent features and programs worldwide. She has sold independent films and programming to HBO, Showtime, Starz, PBS, A&E, BBC, SkyTV, NHK (Japan), RTL (Germany), Canal Plus (France), and countless others.

Her clients films have premiered at Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, SXSW, San Sebastian, and other major film festivals. Her clients include Sundance and SXSW award-winning filmmakers and producers who have secured studio and mini-major distribution.

Stacey is the author of 'The Insider's Guide to Independent Film Distribution" (2007 Focal Press), the founder of Film Specific, the educational resource and community for independent filmmakers focused on helping independent filmmakers get their works distributed, and she is an adjunct professor in the Entertainment Studies department of UCLA.

Stacey has been profiled and interviewed in MovieMaker Magazine, Student Filmmakers Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor and the Los Angeles Business Journal. She has spoken on numerous panels including the Alliance of Women Directors, Slamdance and the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, has presented lectures or workshops at the British Film Institute, UCLA, Women In Film, and the Raindance Film Festival, and frequently writes articles for MovieMaker Magazine, MovieScope Magazine, and Student Filmmakers Magazine.