Hybrid Filmocracy Fest III Concludes and Award Winners Introduced

The Pageant additionally introduced the second version of its Movie Market, a curated surroundings for unbiased filmmakers to return collectively and join with business leaders. This distinctive occasion streamlines the movie acquisition course of, eradicating intermediaries and permitting expertise to current their work on to executives. In its profitable first version, movies had been acquired and dropped at Cannes for gross sales alternatives and distribution offers.

“I participated within the first Filmocracy digital market and located it to be so productive and gratifying that I didn’t hesitate to take part within the subsequent one (and extra ongoing sooner or later),” recollects Archstone Leisure’s Jack Sheehan. “Not solely was I impressed by the tech and the convenience, efficacy, and intuitiveness of the platform, it appeared to movement virtually effortlessly. I used to be fortunate sufficient to search out a number of initiatives I favored, certainly one of which I really closed a deal on and dropped at the bodily Cannes competition a month later, and we’re closing a large number of offers, to each our and the filmmaker’s delight. I believe this platform is high of the competitors of digital markets and can be a mainstay for years to return. Selfishly I hope not too lots of my opponents discover out about it!”

The variety of collaborating consumers, gross sales brokers, and distribution corporations grew considerably because the final occasion. The sturdy record of individuals for the second version included a number of the largest world movie corporations: Sundance, Endeavor Content material, Blue Fox, 13 Movie, XYZ Movies, The Change, Radiant Movies Worldwide, and Periphery, amongst many others. A few of the movies up on the market included Steve Balderson’s ALCHEMY OF THE SPIRIT, Nicholas deKay’s THE ARK OF LILBURN, Austin Chapman’s LACRIMOSA, Christine Yoo’s 26.2 TO LIFE: THE SAN QUENTIN PRISON MARATHON, and Katie O’Regan’s GOOD MORNING MISS AMERICA. Amidst movies picked up by top-name corporations are Daniel Diosdad’s THE NOMAD (for worldwide gross sales by Archstone Leisure) and Juan P. Reyes’ SAMLAND (for South Korean rights by Strana Media), with negotiations ongoing for a lot of extra initiatives.

Liquid Media Group’s Co-Founder and Interim CEO Joshua Jackson shares, “Liquid Media may be very proud to be, for the second time, presenting sponsors of Filmocracy Fest. It’s core to what we do to have the ability to assist rising storytellers, rising voices, inside our group. I’ve at all times felt very proud and really fortunate to be a part of this large, wild, humorous, loopy—generally tough—world group of storytellers, whether or not in entrance of the digital camera or behind it. Filmocracy Fest exists to uplift the group, to make it simpler for us to search out one another and our audiences, and the addition of the market is a tremendous new instrument for filmmakers. We couldn’t be happier to assist this and sit up for seeing you on the subsequent one.”

Movie Market attendees paid a nominal charge of $100, with a VIP choice out there for $500 that allowed passholders to skip queues. The in-person portion of the occasion kicked off with a cocktail social gathering, adopted by preliminary conferences at LA Gondola. The next day, filmmakers had 4 minutes to rapid-fire pitch their movies to their most well-liked media companions, both in particular person or digitally. Attendees had been additionally invited to Opening Night time of Filmocacy Fest to have a good time their cinematic achievements.

“I had a good time attending the Filmocracy Movie Market,” says Los Angeles-based author/director/producer Debbie Peiser. “Filmocracy created a tremendous digital expertise from begin to end. I cherished that they despatched a brochure of which distributors can be attending so I might analysis and put together earlier than my conferences. It was so enjoyable to sit down within the digital ready room with different filmmakers. I used to be so impressed by the positioning design and I’d positively attend once more!”

The Filmocracy Fest Movie Market has established itself, in a really brief time, as a vibrant and extremely sought-after market for the invention of movies and filmmaking expertise by high title producers, distributors, and manufacturing corporations. Filmocracy’s CEO Paul Jun concludes, “Our Movie Market is filling an necessary want within the business by placing filmmakers face-to-face with decisionmakers. By means of our digital platform we’re capable of foster business relationships for filmmakers who lack knowledgeable community.”

About Filmocracy:
Filmocracy is a movie and competition streaming platform that hosts over 100 movie festivals every year and has a continuously evolving and rotating library of greater than 3,500 streaming titles. Customers are rewarded with digital popcorn for watching and ranking movies, which may be spent of their store to earn film tickets, redeem reward playing cards, or attend digital movie festivals hosted from world wide. Filmocracy brings collectively a strong mixture of applied sciences to reinforce the digital cinema and convention expertise for filmmakers, business professionals, and audiences world wide. Filmocracy’s mission is to assist all unbiased filmmakers attain wider audiences and develop their communities by storytelling. Pageant Co-Founder Paul Jun serves as CEO of Filmocracy. In December 2020, Filmocracy staged the First Annual Filmocracy Fest, an all-digital juried movie competition presenting a slate of 44 movies; panels; mentorship program; stay performances; script readings; cause-related companions; and dozens of digital conversations with administrators and business expertise. Jon Fitzgerald serves as Govt Director.

*Press launch courtesy of Henry Eshelman, Platform Media Group