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Women to Blog About: Kelley Green, Gloria Feldman, Laurie Woodrow, Valerie Holt-Sapienza et al

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • January 2, 2012 3:31 PM
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There is a little known niche in the international film business of buying and selling that is inhabited by a handful of professionals called Buyers' Reps. They acquire films on behalf of a slate of distributors. There are surely other women in this unique and difficult niche service group who are not named below, and I ask forgiveness if I have not included them here. The job of buying for distributors around the world involves so many interpersonal skills, the buyers (distributors) interacting with the sellers (international sales agents), reading scripts, watching films, negotiating deals, making everyone happy in a business which is notoriously unhappy for one reason or another (usually economic) takes a heavy toll. These women are survivors and they have been plying their trade for a generation and not without a struggle. There are men in this fields as well, Gordon Steel who invented the niche, Darius Kapfer, Andre Boissier, and others, and in tribute, two who died so prematurely - Steve Hirsch and Richard Glasser, so beloved by everyone that it still hurts to remember. As new distributors survey the wide array of sellers and product, they need to consider the services of these veterans who have maintained strong relationships in the business of buying and selling for a generation already.
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More: Distribution, Buyers' Rep

American Film Market Begins November 2 - 9, 2011

  • By SydneyLevine
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  • October 30, 2011 2:30 AM
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Everyone in the film world knows the American Film Market in Santa Monica is one of the Big 3 world film markets which generate about $3 billion in deals. The business of independent motion picture production and distribution - a truly collaborative process - reaches a peak every year at the American Film Market, the Cannes Film Festival's Marche May 16-27, 2012 and the European Film Market during the Berlinale February 9 - 17, 2012.
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More: Film Distribution Company, International Sales Agent, International Film Market, Distribution, Film Funding & Financing, Education, Buyers' Rep, U.S. Distributors and Distribution, Rights

IFP Announces Titles for Project Forum - The Centerpiece of Independent Film Week

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • September 18, 2011 6:30 AM
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150 New Films in Development from Emerging & Established Filmmakers
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More: GLBT, Film Distribution Company, Producers to Watch, Distribution, Special Interest, Digital, Transmedia, Film Funding & Financing, Rights, Contacts, Buyers' Rep, Producer's Rep, Exhibiton, Crowd Funding, Crowd Sourcing, U.S. Distributors and Distribution, DIY, Digital Film Distribution, Internet Film Distribution, Hybrid Distribution, Women: By and For, Political, Independent Film Financing, Grants

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