We had so much fun advising the New Hampshire Film Festival and giving them our ideas for strategy, policies and tools and on integrating social media; and are having so much fun watching the portion of our ideas they’ve been able to implement on their own so far. From QR codes on the badges and [...]
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Film Festival Tool Kit
September 2nd, 2010 by Amy Greenlaw | No Comments
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Film POP! Partners With New Hampshire Film Festival
June 28th, 2010 by Amy Greenlaw | No Comments
Media Info: Contact: Leslie Poston and Amy Greenlaw from Film POP! Website: http://filmpop.tv or http://nhfilmfestival.com/ FILM POP AND NH FILM FESTIVAL, PORTSMOUTH, NH – Film POP! is pleased to announce that it will be working with the Festival this year as a Media Partner, and will lead and execute the online promotional efforts and strategy [...]
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The Disposable Film Festival
June 8th, 2010 by Amy Greenlaw | No Comments
What is Disposable Film you ask? According to The Disposable Film Festival site: “It has been made possible by new media and the rise of online distribution. These films are often made quickly, casually, and sometimes even unintentionally. Everyone has become a Disposable Filmmaker: directors of Saturday night cell phone videos, actors under the eyes [...]
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Filmmakers Get Social in NYC
April 14th, 2010 by Amy Greenlaw | No Comments
Several fantastic panelists are getting together tonight in New York at the Roger Smith Hotel to share advice on a fabulous panel. Ultimat Vodka is sponsoring free booze, also, so if you haven’t signed up yet for the speakers, you might want to sign up for THAT. I’m on the panel, and I can’t wait [...]
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Van McLeod On NH House Bill 1664
March 23rd, 2010 by Amy Greenlaw | No Comments
This is a reprint of a letter from NH Department of Cultural Resources Commissioner, Van McLeod. Because Film POP! is invested in filmmakers everywhere, we wanted to give Van a platform for rallying people to call their representatives in the House (and Senate, if it gets that far) to save the NH Film Office. House [...]
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IFC’s First Purchase From Sundance 2010 A Noir Shocker
January 31st, 2010 by Amy Greenlaw | No Comments
Carrying on the trend toward darker movies in general, IFC’s first pick up from Sundance 2010 is a brutal film noir shocker that caused quite a stir at the festival: The Killer Inside Me. The last few months seem to mark the rise of the horror/thriller genre, much to the chagrin of some. In this [...]
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Filmmakers Catching The DIY Wave At Slamdance
January 24th, 2010 by Amy Greenlaw | No Comments
We’ve been singing the gospel of DIY Film Marketing at Film POP! since day one, and love seeing the wave catching on. Two people who have been just as passionate and vocal about the DIY bootstrap concepts in film marketing as well, Jon Reiss and Ted Hope, are doing some great things to get their [...]
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New Social Tool for Online Video Viewing
November 5th, 2009 by Amy Greenlaw | 1 Comment
ABC announced today that on November 7, it will be launching “ABC Social: Episode Commentary” on ABC.com. The new tool allows web viewers to add their opinions and comments on the show in an adjacent window to the left of the site’s video viewer. Users can log in to this feature using their Facebook accounts [...]
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What does 360 mean to Documentary Filmmakers?
June 3rd, 2009 by Amy Greenlaw | 3 Comments
I attended and gave a demo of PortalVideo at the Documentary Campus, “Faster, Leaner, Keener, Meaner” Symposium in Manchester, UK Memorial Day weekend. The group was comprised of industry experts from National Geographic, PBS, A&E, to name a few. The remainder of the group was from the Documentary Campus Masterschool, a European masterclass in project [...]
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IFW Project Forum Deadline May 21
May 11th, 2009 by Amy Greenlaw | No Comments
If you know independent film, then you know that Independent Film Week’s Project Forum acceptance often signals a film that will hit festival after festival, finding success in the indie film world and beyond. This year the Independent Film Week Project Forum is in September 2009, and the deadline for submissions is rapidly approaching: May [...]
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