The hot new path to indie film distribution may not run through New York or Los Angeles.
Indie filmmakers are taking their films on the road. Often, they target specific regions like the American Midwest or South. These traveling tours may feature live components — a Q&a, a concert, or a performance. Controlling your content sounds very 21st-century, but it’s literally one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Vaudeville-like tours have been a part of the film industry since the 1920s, when a project’s physical filmstock would travel from city to city in order to screen for a limited number of weeks. Movies were paired with overtures and intermissions rather than short subjects or promotional trailers. Some of these elements persisted through the 1960s, but the road shows of today are not an exercise in nostalgia or in corporate strategy; they’re a roadmap to success.
“For...
Indie filmmakers are taking their films on the road. Often, they target specific regions like the American Midwest or South. These traveling tours may feature live components — a Q&a, a concert, or a performance. Controlling your content sounds very 21st-century, but it’s literally one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Vaudeville-like tours have been a part of the film industry since the 1920s, when a project’s physical filmstock would travel from city to city in order to screen for a limited number of weeks. Movies were paired with overtures and intermissions rather than short subjects or promotional trailers. Some of these elements persisted through the 1960s, but the road shows of today are not an exercise in nostalgia or in corporate strategy; they’re a roadmap to success.
“For...
- 2/10/2025
- by Cory Stillman
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Peter Hyoguchi will be fully embracing virtual production for “God of Mars,” a science-fiction epic that he promises will include the type of action and special effects usually seen in big budget blockbusters, but for a fraction of the cost.
How? By embracing virtual production and relying on Unreal Engine technology. “God of Mars” will leverage LED walls and Lidar scans to create virtual environments and all the effects from rocket ships to robots.
The film is set on Mars, circa 2099 where a washed-up astro-fighter pilot leads a ragtag team of mercenaries on a mission to take out a charismatic cult leader who has convinced a mining colony to revolt. The movie features a huge, interplanetary scope, air battles slicing through Mars’ canyons, giant robots, futuristic Martian cities, close combat and a mystery about who are the original Gods of Mars.
Screenwriter Jonathan Schriber says that when he wrote...
How? By embracing virtual production and relying on Unreal Engine technology. “God of Mars” will leverage LED walls and Lidar scans to create virtual environments and all the effects from rocket ships to robots.
The film is set on Mars, circa 2099 where a washed-up astro-fighter pilot leads a ragtag team of mercenaries on a mission to take out a charismatic cult leader who has convinced a mining colony to revolt. The movie features a huge, interplanetary scope, air battles slicing through Mars’ canyons, giant robots, futuristic Martian cities, close combat and a mystery about who are the original Gods of Mars.
Screenwriter Jonathan Schriber says that when he wrote...
- 11/12/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
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