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How To Sell Your Indie Films?

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">This is a big question that has been asked many times by indie film makers and everyone seems to have different opinions about this topic&period; If you want your current indie film to become successful&comma; you need to have an excellent marketing campaign&period; If your marketing efforts fail and you can’t sell your film&comma; you may run out of fund for future projects&period; The most common path used by film makers is by joining various indie film festivals&period; However&comma; you should know that blind submission to various festivals can be a huge waste of money and time&period; Most of the festivals feature only films that have been approved by a group of film critics and reviewers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">So&comma; if you already fail in your film marketing&comma; it won’t be possible to get a submission into any festival&period; However&comma; there are some festivals that allow film makers to submit their works&period; But&comma; such festivals can be inundated with many submissions that only a small percentage of films can be approved&period; Often&comma; you need more than an above average indie film to get a second look from local film critics&period; These people will see only snippets of your film and if there’s nothing interesting about your film&comma; it will refused for entry into the festival&period; Repeated refusals can be devastating for many indie film makers&comma; because they are getting nowhere and no one can see their works&period; Even so&comma; you need to keep the wheels turning to ensure that your dreams will eventually come true&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The indie film fans are close-knit society and often&comma; without proper social network&comma; you will get less recognition&period; You need to ensure that producers&comma; directors&comma; crews&comma; actors and writers can contribute in building the network&period; They should spread the word about the film projects&period; You can ask your team members to have the trailers of your film in their smartphone&comma; so they can be shown to friends&comma; relatives and family members&period; You need to stop spending your money on unnecessary marketing methods&comma; because this could end up getting you little results&period;  Fortunately&comma; the Internet has provided us with a lot of platforms to showcase our indie films with little or no cost&period; Before using the Internet for your marketing purposes&comma; it is important that you have the right digital content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">You need to start b<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;flagate&period;net&sol;">y making an excellent trailer<&sol;a> that can be represent your film&period; People should be hooked with it from the first second they see your trailer&period; That’s the reason why the task of making a trailer shouldn’t be given to a single video editor&period; It should become a separate project by the whole cast and members of the team&period; Post your trailer in YouTube and Instagram&period; Go to online forums for film making and film discussions&period; Let people know about your trailer and if you have done a great job with both the film and trailers&comma; you should be able to obtain significant reactions from the people&period; The indie film competition can be intense at times and you need to know you can stand out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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