Congratulations on your festival successes, Ray! Sorry to say that I
know nothing about distribution, but would be very interested in
meeting with you to discuss scoring and/or sound design services for
your future projects if you don't already have those areas
well-covered. Email or call me any time.

Sean McCoy
Oregon Sound Recording
(541) 664-4826



At 01:21 PM 3/30/2007, you wrote:

>So my little southern Oregon feature has now been accepted in to its
>fifth and sixth film festivals. It will screen at the Phoenix Film
>Festival (Arizona not Oregon) in April and the Big Island Film
>Festival (Hawaii of course)in May. And, it's garnered two awards
>so far (Audience Awards at the Bluegrass Independent Film Festival
>and Miami Underground Film Festival). But now it's time to figure
>out distribution. I've had two distribution companies offer to pick
>up the movie so far. They are both requesting 5 year deals but are
>offering no money up front. My background is in TV commercial
>production so this movie distribution stuff is new to me and I'm
>wondering if there is anyone out there that can help provide me with
>some insight on how to deal with a distributor. Seems like there are
>a lot of filmmakers that never see a dime from their distributor, I
>don't want to become another one of those filmmakers. So, please
>reply with your words of wisdom or if you feel you have a wealth of
>information I'd be happy to buy you a cup of coffee or a beer so I
>can pick your brain.
>
>Finally, if you know anyone who will be in Phoenix, Arizona on
>Saturday evening April 14 or in the Waikaloa area of Hawaii on Friday
>evening May 18 please let them know there is a movie called "Sixes
>and the One Eyed King" screening at the film festival that they must
>see (and the director will be there to answer any of their questions).
>
>Thanks for reading all this.
>
>Ray