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Sunday, January 29, 9:00AM - 4:30PM

Jon Reiss, award-winning filmmaker, author and film marketing consultant, will present a special one-day intensive class covering the basics of film distribution and marketing in the current arena of shifting platforms and markets.

PART ONE: Creating a Strategy for Your Film, 9:30 am - 12, Reiss will cover how to create a distribution strategy and marketing plan unique to your film; the various available markets for your film’s release; and how to engage your audience as early as possible.

In PART TWO: A Redefinition of Film Products, 12:30-4:30 pm, Reiss will cover: release options: theatrical, festival and alternative; maximizing live events; navigating the digital rights arena (VOD, streaming, aggregators/distributors, peer to peer networks) and transmedia. READ MORE

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The Documentary History Project for Youth is an after-school, weekend and summertime production workshop for middle and high school students. Up to 12 young people explore an aspect of the political, social or cultural history of Philadelphia by creating short video documentaries, audio works or websites. Students gain solid skills in media production - including planning, scripting, camera & sound recording, editing, and exposure to varied media production softwares – FinalCutPro, AfterEffects, HTML and Audacity. The Documentary History Project for Youth program also helps young people learn about the process of studying and presenting history, teaching the skills of archive research, field interviews, data collection and analysis, constructing narratives and fact checking.

Application Deadline: Monday, February 27, 2012

For more information and to download an application please follow this LINK