We are bringing back our weekly feature Throwback Sundays!
This week instead of a trailer to a classic film or interview, we remember this monumental achievement in self distribution (which hasn't been rivaled yet by more than a handful of filmmakers).
Four Eyed Monsters was a collaborative feature film shot with a DVX-100 and financed on credit cards. It's highly inventive co-directors Susan Buice and Arin Crumley created the film from the story of their then still-in-progress romantic relationship.
After following "protocol" by premiering at a film festival (Slamdance), they failed to get any good distribution offers, and went to creating webisodes of the ordeal and their personal love story on Youtube. They took to crowd sourcing their audience and having them demand to see the film theatrically in their town. Not long afterwards, the film was the first feature to premiere exclusively on Youtube. Four Eyed Monsters actually mixed self distribution with traditional distribution by completing their grassroots campaign and signing a pick up deal with IFC for theatrical and VOD release. Best of both worlds.
Here is a 2007 Cinema Tech article documenting their first $23,000 made from this online streaming release, and here is the full feature film!
- Lena
No comments:
Post a Comment