What happens after you’ve finally finished that amazing film you worked on for years? You want to sell it, of course. You want to find a way to get it out there and earn what you know it’s worth. But where do you start? Who do you take it to? With Preferred Content's Managing Partner Kevin Iwashina at the helm, we brought together an expert panel including top sales agents Josh Braun of Submarine (US sales) and Annie Roney of ro*co (international sales), as well as David Magdael (publicist), to give you a few insider dos and don'ts for selling your documentary. DO find the right match
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Filmmaker James Lapine discusses how confident the famous composer in an interview, a direct contrast to his vulnerability in front of the piano.

DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' director talks about being on the road with one of the world's most famous rock bands.

If there's one image that sums up the overwhelming workload of our nation's public defenders, it can be found in the middle of Dawn Porter's recent documentary Gideon's Army. The image surfaces when we enter the office of Travis Williams, a young attorney who is practically buried by mountainous stacks of papers and files that amount to his current and ongoing caseload. At times tackling over 100 cases simultaneously, Travis is just one of the 15,000 men and women who provide proper legal council and services to those in the US who could not otherwise afford an attorney. Along with several

Filmmakers Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright talk about the slow process of building trust with the Ugandan LGBT community.

Here is our all-inclusive crowdfunding tool kit to better help you navigate the maze of this rapidly growing fundraising strategy.

After completing his latest documentary feature, Errol Morris professed that the film captured "the strangest interview I’ve ever done." And for Morris, the man famous for the invention of his interviewing machine aptly coined The Interrotron, this conversation with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is just one of thousands he’s conducted over the course of his filmmaking career. So to refer to it as "the strangest" is certainly saying something. After developing a personal fascination with Rumsfeld's "snowflakes"—the enormous mountain of memos he composed during his almost fifty

Director Barbara Kopple spoke to Indiewire's Dana Harris about wanting to get inside the Hemingway mythos.

Criticwire's Steve Greene talks to TIM'S VERMEER producer Farley Ziegler about carving their story.

KCRW's Matt Holzman asks Robert Stone about the support he's received from the the likes of Microsoft and Google.