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Attention New Hampshire Film Festival Attendees: Don't miss a special panel, 'Industry Insiders: Getting Films to an Audience', featuring Kinema's own Rish Aggarwal 🎬 Join this year’s insiders from fields of distribution, marketing, public relations and producing for a conversation and Q&A on how films are successfully delivered to audiences in many different ways. Hear about preparing a film for festivals and sales, creating buzz and promotions, tales from the road, and the resources available to help get films of all types out there. When: Friday, October 18 @ 2:30pm Where: The Press Room, Portsmouth, NH Learn More: https://lnkd.in/enfNSt_S

"Some indie films are finding nontraditional ways to distribute outside the traditional theater system through avenues like startup Kinema, which helps filmmakers host in-person and online screenings." Thanks for the shout-out, Business Insider!

Don't miss our Distribution In Flux: Reimagining and Thriving in the New Era panel to gain valuable insights into navigating the complexities of film distribution amidst the current shifting dynamics. Our panel includes: ⚡ Daniel Cantagallo, Vice President of Cargo Film & Releasing. ⚡ Christie Marchese, Founder of Kinema. ⚡ Jeffrey Winter, Co-Executive Director at The Film Collaborative. ⚡ Laetitia Doyle, Acquisitions & Sales Representative at TERRANOA. She will be our panel moderator. ⚡ Amy Hobby, Co-Founder of Distribution Advocates. Together with our panel of experts, we invite you to analyze the impact of digital vs. theatrical platforms, changes in audience behavior, and the contraction of what networks and streamers are acquiring, particularly in terms of genres. Find out more and buy your symposium pass now: https://lnkd.in/eUwPZ_mi

Got questions about publicity for your film? Bring them to the PR Essentials webinar that we are co-hosting with publicist Lisa Trifone on August 15th! We'll dig into the fundamentals of indie film PR and open the floor for all your burning questions on publicity, film reviews, media coverage and more. Plus, attendees will be the first to get access to a launch from Bright Iris. FREE! Register here: brightirisfilm.co/webinar

We’re excited to invite you to our new community group on Portrait! Portrait Creative Network is an online network designed for people in media to connect and create. The Kinema Group is for creators and industry members who have had films on Kinema, and want to share and learn more about distribution. Why Join the Kinema Group? 📽️ Exclusive Community: Connect with award-winning filmmakers and industry leaders - all who have used Kinema. 📝 Share & Learn: Exchange best practices, case studies, and successful strategies. 🗣️ Network: Securely connect with each other for potential partnerships, collaborations and consultations. How To Join 1. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gVPVNpki 2. Our team will review to make sure you have worked with Kinema in some capacity, presently or in the past 3. Portrait will verify you’re a filmmaker or industry member 4. You get access to the group! Join us on Portrait and let’s all work together to make every film a success!

American Film Convention 2024 speaker announcement 📣 Christie Marchese! Christie Marchese is the founder and CEO of Kinema. Kinema is a global film distribution and exhibition platform that leverages the power of community and social interaction to screen and stream films. She was previously the founder of the impact agency Picture Motion and led as CEO for 9 years. Prior to PicMo, she ran impact for Righteous Pictures, led digital strategy for the social action group at Participant Media, and handled program coordination and social media strategy at Norman Lear's nonprofit Declare Yourself. Christie is also the co-author of The Distribution Playbook and won several industry recognitions, including being named one of Fortune’s Rising Female Founders in 2023 and Fast Company’s Most Creative People in 2021. She’s currently on the board of Subject Matter and The Reinvent Stockton Foundation, and on the Capacity Council for Brown Girls Doc Mafia. Learn more about AFC and register now at americanfilmconvention.com.

The Hollywood Reporter recently published an article on the distribution challenges facing so-called controversial political films. This is part of the larger challenges facing films that don’t have a major streamer or studio behind them.   At Kinema, we welcome these challenges, and we champion films with a strong voice and point of view. This is why we're so proud of the shoutout we got in this article from a filmmaker and industry expert we deeply respect! We're providing an excellent launching pad for films that may be polarizing or controversial. It brings these films directly to the people who want to – or need to – see them, and from a distributor’s POV, provides word of mouth for the superfans and influencers who will recommend the film to wider audiences. We have thousands of screening event partners around the world and the network is growing rapidly. Along with Seed&Spark we just released a distribution playbook for filmmakers. We're signing distribution deals with entrepreneurial film creators and theatrical distributors, and are fast becoming an important part of the emerging, hybrid, digitally-driven distribution ecosystem. Join us :)

Thanks to everyone for the love and sharing of IndieWire's coverage of The Distribution Playbook on Friday! Sharing the direct link to the website here to keep spreading the word. https://lnkd.in/eESnFjA3 https://lnkd.in/e_bt85MP The Distribution Playbook is a FREE, open-source educational resource designed to help filmmakers build informed, creative, and successful distribution strategies. Emily Best, you are a brilliant collaborator, and it's been an honor and a blast to work on this with you! Thank you to Jon Reiss and Liz Manashil for your contributions to the Playbook! We invite other amazing industry leaders to send in ideas, spreadsheet examples, case studies, articles, etc. to help us all better information share.

Thank you Seed&Spark for collaborating with us on The Distribution Playbook! This free, open-source educational resource helps filmmakers build informed, creative, and successful distribution strategies. 💪 🎬 Learn how to create an actionable distribution strategy for your film at https://lnkd.in/erzTMGqU!

Kinema is at Tribeca! CEO Christie Marchese is joining the following panels to chat film distribution - we hope to see you there! 🎬 The Changing Face of Distribution https://lnkd.in/gE7s7Tej 📽 Beyond Streaming: How to Get Your Brand Film Seen Without a Big Distribution Deal https://lnkd.in/eDdQg88F