Marketing for Microbudget Films (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781041019985)

In Marketing for Microbudget Films, feature film director, producer and educator Nick Mackintosh-Smith shares a combination of blockbuster and indie techniques for targeting a dedicated audience. Mackintosh-Smith provides hands-on suggestions for strategies designed to match a variety of genres, territories and viewer tastes.

Mackintosh-Smith, along with a diverse cross-section of industry veterans, offers advice on effective promotion, from building relationships with audience members to large-scale distribution companies. Readers will learn invaluable tactics, such as working with film commissions and other film-friendly organisations; the nuts and bolts of posters, trailers and bonus material; how to maintain audience interest during the postproduction process; as well as maximising the latest social media techniques in multiple territories.

With indispensable facts, figures, case studies and resources, Marketing for Microbudget Films provides a wealth of techniques to use in a way that will inform, assist and motivate moviemakers of all levels.