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> At a film festival I recently attended, a very respected sales agent - and that's a rare breed - asked the audience and other panel members if they knew of an
by aluhut 11y ago
> At a film festival I recently attended, a very respected sales agent - and that's a rare breed - asked the audience and other panel members if they knew of anyone who had made a profit selling their narrative film digitally from their own site. Nobody did.
Has that ever happen at all? I didn't hear about that yet.
- thenomad 11y agoVarious people have tried it, but it usually works somewhere between "not well" and "terribly". Although information flow in the film world is so limited that it might well be there's someone out there who has cracked it and is making a healthy profit - they're just not telling anyone.
- loudmax 11y agoIs the "narrative" qualifier there to exclude documentaries? I paid to stream the Minecraft documentary (http://www.2playerproductions.com/projects/minecraft http://www.2playerproductions.com/projects/minecraft). I think that is the only documentary my kids ever got excited about watching.
- giaour 11y agoI assumed the question was phrased to exclude pornography, which is often profitably distributed online via the producer's site.
- thenomad 11y agoYes. Documentaries are a completely different world to narrative feature films and one I don't know a lot about. The financials work very differently.