Distribution

For the past 40 years, Icarus Films has been Jonathan Miller's vehicle for showing films that may not have found an audience any other way. If you

By Steven Beer, Jake Levy and Neil Rosini To generate income and engage new audiences, documentary producers are increasingly turning to educational

In 1999, Bill Clinton was president. Tablets and smart phones had yet to be unleashed on the world, and streaming was in its nascent stages as a

In the face of perceived dominance in the documentary marketplace by such major SVODs as Netflix and Amazon, an international coalition of

Since its launch in Australia in 2008 as a DVD distributor in the academic market, then as a streaming platform two years later, Kanopy has rapidly

Few things are more intellectually pleasurable than a good paradox. Take, for example, documentary film distribution in the digital era. As content

My partners and I have been making films for over 20 years. During this time the basic pathways of film distribution have shifted dramatically. The

For documentaries seeking theatrical distribution in a crowded marketplace, a premiere at a major film festival is still the primary way to generate

By Susan Margolin and Jon Reiss During IDA's Getting Real 2016 conference back in September, we held a panel called "So Your Film Didn't Get Into

Get any group of documentary filmmakers together and, no doubt, a big topic of conversation will be money: how to get it, how to make it, and how to