Do it Yourself Distribution!

In our continuing effort to stand apart from the thousands of other festivals, FirstGlance™ has teamed with Indiepix and Brightcove technologies to offer filmmakers added visibility and the chance to profit from their projects. Whether it be an animated short or a feature documentary, FirstGlance™ can insure a multi-platform distribution deal to "indie" filmmakers.

Distribution is one of the most difficult things to acquire, and with the advent of the do it yourself and "grassroots" marketing on the internet with sites like Myspace and YouTube leading the way in the DIY marketplace, why not try doing it yourself, with no risk, and no restrictions or limits, isn't that why you became a filmmaker in the first place.

Have the ability to sell your product to the billions of internet users, have your own personal webpage built by Indiepix with streaming trailer capability and e-commerce so all you have to do is link your homepage to Indiepix and start selling

As seen recently in Time magazine, the Philadelphia Metro, The Philadelphia Inquirer and named by the Ultimate Film Festival Guide as one of the festivals to watch and in Moviemaker Magazine as "one of the best film festival investments", we have been working very hard to help filmmakers get their projects from the festival circuit and offer it up to the world.

I can see some of you shaking your heads and saying, no way, well here's how we can do it...

NO-COST, NON-EXCLUSIVE, PROFIT SHARE!!
Here's how it works:

• No Cost to Filmmakers. Indiepix works off a profit-share system, which gives the filmmaker most of the profits on the sale. Indiepix hosts the servers capable of the download to own features and duplicates a master for the buyer.
• Non-Exclusive- Indiepix and FirstGlance™ believe in getting the product seen by as many eyes as possible and allows the filmmaker to sell from their own site and through Indiepix. They don't believe in owning your product, which allows you to enter other festivals, get more fans, and offer your project to them by download.
• FirstGlance™ and Indiepix offers Official Selections of the FirstGlance™ Film Festivals the opportunity to be included on a compilation DVD with profit share which is advertised on the FirstGlance™ website, Indiepix website, your website and they are working on strategic partnerships with other retail and online venues.
• Indiepix can create master duplicates in many different platforms both PC and Mac compatible downloads to Ipod, computer or a propriatery software which allows for a new kind of download...Download to BURN!! You can now take your files from the computer, burn on a DVD and watch in 100% DVD quality. Think of it as Netflix without waiting for the mail.
• Within minutes of your first purchase the standalone disk factory is loaded on to your computer which allows you to do this process, quickly, efficienty and safely.
• FirstGlance™ and Indiepix is working on unveiling many new platforms to include your projects, including broadband genre type channels offered on many platforms including Tivo. With this ability viewers can also Pay per view on TV, through the broadband channel.
• Don't be surprised if someday real soon, you see your project on an airplane, in a gym, at a gas station, on a watch, practically everywhere...and what's great about it is you profit from every level of distribution and still own your project!
• Being filmmakers ourselves, we believe the "indie" spirit is kept intact, by allowing the filmmaker to decide his own fate, and not giving up all your rights for a project to sit on the shelves of a big studio and never see the light of day!!
• With FirstGlance™ and Indiepix, you never know who's watching, and everytime someone is, you make a profit!!

This type of distribution model for the internet is very new and many filmmakers are skeptics, thinking they will sell to HBO or some other venue. Sell to these venues you get a small advance and that is all you will ever see...Sell with Indiepix and the profit could be unlimited!!

Promote however you want, wherever you want, get the word out about your project and with the help of Indiepix and FirstGlance™, your project will be going places!!

FirstGlance™ Film Festivals is proud to offer the opportunity to our Official Selections and we plan on a similar offering to films we cannot exhibit in our festivals, due to the time restraint of the event.

We hope you embrace this process as much as we do. If the "indie" community builds it, the audience will come!!

If you are interested in this opportunity, let us know!