by Michael Mandaville | Aug 3, 2022 | Trends, Trends-Media
The International Financing Landscape: France and UK The models used in these countries has a strong public broadcast government support with license fees. But that’s up for significant change. I remember when Amazon and Netflix first pushed into France –...
by Michael Mandaville | Sep 17, 2021 | Filmmaking, Trends, Trends-Media
Spain was always a natural jumping off point for filmmaking, particularly streaming as the mother country of Spanish into the Latin American market. Many territories have strong linguistic ties. For example, France with Senegal and West Africa. China with certain...
by Michael Mandaville | Sep 16, 2021 | Filmmaking, Trends, Trends-Media
The changing of the Guard at the great Paramount studio signals another sea change. As Theatrical is dead right now, perhaps it’s a near permanent shift. Why? Audience Behavior to some degree, weary of the high cost of theatrical films, their script...
by Michael Mandaville | Jul 30, 2020 | Creativity Resources, Filmmaking Stuff, Trends-Media, Writing
VIDCON, the premiere online gathering for Online Video, is FREE. You merely have to register to get into their Virtual Gathering. I have gone for the last 7 years and it’s an amazing place to learn about Online Video, connect with people and hear the stories...
by Michael Mandaville | Jan 22, 2020 | Filmmaking, Trends-Media, TV, Uncategorized
Michael is in Miami reporting for Indie Brigade at the worldwide NATPE conference. NATPE is the much required short version of ”National Association of Television Programming Executives”. While the organization started as traditional television, the group now...
by Michael Mandaville | Aug 17, 2016 | Filmmaking, Trends-Economic, Trends-Media, TV
In this article on IndieWire, the author examines how Independent Filmmakers would use the Facebook platform to leverage themselves into an audience. Producer Dan Schoenbrun, Kickstarter’s former outreach guru for filmmakers, said Facebook has become almost useless...
