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You read that right! We’re launching our own TVOD platform as a loudspeaker for independent film and TV. Variety took the exclusive over the weekend check out the article here
If you’ve a feature or short (fiction or doc) and you’d be interested in being part of our launch head to recdekhouse.com and click on The Drive-In tab.
How come?
Over the past three years we’ve hosted at most major film festivals. It has become clear that for most filmmakers the landscape of distribution is often a puzzle. How does one sell one’s project? If film distribution is a puzzle, so too is revenue. Tricky revenue for a project which has undoubtedly taken tens of thousands of hours to make.
This isn’t to say that a filmmaker shouldn’t hustle for the best distributor, the best boutique studio, the best home for their film. Indeed they should. Pitch for wherever you feel your work will be represented best.
Our intention with the Drive-In is to help Producers and filmmakers who do not land an appealing distribution deal. As someone with a film at The Drive-In, you will be able to:
Set your own price
Take receipts from first sale
See real time audience data
Retain your own IP
Turn on and off territories according to any other deals
Use the RecDek App to help you distribute
If you’re a filmmaker with a feature, short or episodic and you want to get in front of an audience - you can submit your work here:
https://www.recdekhouse.com/ → head to The Drive-In tab.
Keep in line for more news on this very soon. And nnormous shout out to the team at Hiway, for partnering with us on this.
Our event is fast approaching - October 17th! Hit us up if you’re interested in sponsoring the evening.
And if you’re a filmmaker with a short film that you’d be interested in screening head to recdekhouse.com and click the submit a short banner.
& ONE FOR YOUR RECDEK WATCHLIST
Lawrence Kasdan's documentary is, at heart, one old friend paying tribute to another. It opens with a wink: Short teasing Kasdan about the daft convention of pretending they're strangers when they've been mates for decades. Kasdan waves it away - this won't be that kind of stiff bio-doc…
What pours off the screen is affection. Nearly everyone Short ever worked with - Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Steve Martin, John Mulaney - turns up to marvel at him, and the throughline is that he turned colleagues into lifelong friends. The SCTV and SNL years land hardest: a comedy scene so overloaded with talent that everyone raised their game. Seeing O'Hara reminisce carries an unexpected ache given her death, a flash of her warmth.
Joy is the register throughout. Kasdan clearly fell for the home-movie footage of the parties Short and his late wife Nancy Dolman threw - not glossy celebrity affairs but people dancing, laughing, families in tow. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson recall them fondly, and a clip of Gump-era Hanks clowning with Short is properly funny.
Insight is thinner on the ground. Kasdan adores his subject too much to bother building the case for him. Mulaney does best, noting Short's decades of quietly filing hits like Innerspace as flops and moving on. And there were plenty of flops, his real reappraisal only arrived late, powered by Only Murders in the Building and the tours with Martin.
For a devoted fan it's warm but not revealing. Newcomers may get more from it, a tight 100-minute hit of pure Short. Everyone else will just wish there was more.
OK. That’s it for this week.
Good stuff. See you soon.
Ed
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