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International Film Sales and Production Company
Based in Los Angeles, CA, Flourishing Films is a new boutique film sales outfit founded in January 2016. The company made its debut at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival and European Film Market (EFM). Previously having worked in feature acquisitions at Paramount Pictures, the experience inspired its founder to begin a film sales and production business sp
Based in Los Angeles, CA, Flourishing Films is a new boutique film sales outfit founded in January 2016. The company made its debut at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival and European Film Market (EFM). Previously having worked in feature acquisitions at Paramount Pictures, the experience inspired its founder to begin a film sales and production business sp
Operating as usual
Starting today you can vote for the #ABFF Fan Favorites for our webisode pilot Looking For Me! Link in bio.
Voting runs thru Nov 26th. Thank you for supporting our team on this project. It’s been a fun ride so far!
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1 – 20 October 2020
Check out the UK’s leading festivals of African cinema unite to present a showcase of the best contemporary African cinema from the past decade.
Some GREAT titles being virtually screened. Treat yourself!
https://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/we-are-tano
1 – 20 October 2020 The UK’s leading festivals of African cinema unite to present a showcase of the best...
New Flourishing Films title: I'll See You Around written & directed by Daniel F. Pfeffer starring Lucas Monroe with a guest appearance by Roger Guenveur Smith.
You can now find Anisia Uzeyman’s Dreamstates on KweliTV, starring our friend Saul Williams. Shot on an iPhone, the film is equal parts love story, road movie, and Americana, telling a haunting tale of two wayward souls discovering their love for one another in their dreams and reality. Beautiful!
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CEt_y3-jHhe/?igshid=1soo4fqpvw4am
Catch our filmmaker Perivi Katjavivi’s screening and conversation on Cube Cinema of The Unseen, starring our friend Antonio Lyons. ✨✨
https://cubecinema.com/programme/event/the-unseen,11475/
Cables + Cameras have partnered with Film and TV Charity In Conversation with Writer and Filmmaker Perivi Katjavivi from Namibia.
Now Available! Ayiti Mon Amour by writer/director Guetty Felin. Purchase options here! https://www.flourishingfilms.com/ayiti-mon-amour
If you've seen the film, we'd be grateful for you to share your thoughts and ratings with us, here: https://www.amazon.com/Ayiti-Mon-Amour-Joakim-Cohen/dp/B07TQYRTCJ
In a coastal town forgotten by the rest of the world, the sea is gaining ground and although the memories of the great disaster still haunt the villagers, life must go on... Three stories intertwine, collide and co-exist. A grieving teenager discovers he has a superpower, an old fisherman thinks ...
Closing Night Feature Narrative Program featuring films from Harlem, Upper Manhattan and the Bronx (HUB)
Support filmmaker Mtume Gant.
An expressionistic Drama about a disillusioned Black visual artist who, on his final night in the #NewYorkCity, wanders the streets trying to fight off the demons of the morally corrupt art world only to be forced to come to terms with the demons within himself.
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An expressionistic Drama about a disillusioned Black visual artist who, on his final night in the New York City, wanders the streets trying to fight off the demons of the morally corrupt art world only to be forced to come to terms with the demons within himself
ALL FOR ENTRIES for SAGindie Movies & Music Speed Pairing! Please help us spread the word to filmmakers looking for the perfect score for their movie.
What: Film directors in pre- to post-production can sign up to meet with a variety of film composers for quick one-on-one sessions. Speed pairing is a way for filmmakers and music professionals to meet in a casual setting to spark the creative process.
When: Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Where: SAG-AFTRA Building, Los Angeles, CA
Learn More and Register: https://www.sagindie.org/resources/music/pairings/
Filmmakers can attend the SAGindie Movies & Music Speed Pairing sessions for one-on-one sitdowns with film composers and music professionals.
With a strong emphasis on diversity as well as the importance of the space that African content occupies globally, the CTIFMF will also present a range of highly topical panel discussions. A key session on diversity will be presented by Flourishing Films’ Themba Bhebhe.
For this year’s Industry Programme, the CTIFMF has made a concerted effort to focus on outcome driven programmes
Great notes to harness the full distribution potential of their film from Short of the Week.
https://www.shortoftheweek.com/news/be-everywhere-all-at-once/
by Andrew S Allen on Short of the Week—Watch the most innovative stories—Documentary, Comedy, Sci-fi, Horror, Experimental, Animation, Inspiration, Student films, Award winners & more short films
What's happening over at Netflix? A changing landscape from cable to streaming. Read how their growing capacity, brand, and content!
via @Redef
Netflix may be playing a dangerous game, but it's not doing so recklessly. To the winner, goes untold spoils.
Yes and everything. Go buy art.
via Smithsonian Magazine
The celebrated portraitist’s glittering images of black women upend tradition
Condé Nast boasted 12 billion digital video views last year. The company announced 35 returning series and 60 new pilots under development for this year with OTT content.
Over the top (OTT) is a media distribution practice that allows a streaming content provider to sell audio, video, and other media services directly to the consumer over the internet via streaming media as a standalone product, bypassing telecommunications, cable or broadcast television service providers that traditionally act as a controller or distributor of such content
via Adweek
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Warby Parker and Won't You Be My Neighbor? team up for a brand collaboration with "neighborly neighbors a note."
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We’re celebrating “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?," the new documentary about Mister Rogers’ unforgettable legacy of kindness and friendship. (The very best kinds of things to celebrate!)
Some worthy do's and don't do's from the folks that look at a lot of screenplays.
via Vulture
Do they care about spelling and grammar? Has Trump changed their tastes?
We agree 100% with Brie Larson
“It really sucks that reviews matter, but reviews matter,” she said. “We are expanding to make films that reflect the people who buy movie tickets….I do not need a 40 year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work for him about A Wrinkle in Time. It wasn’t made for him….I want to know what my work means to the world, not a narrow view.”
via Deadline
The Sundance and Toronto film festivals will both allocate 20 percent of press credentials to underrepresented journalists going forward, Brie Larson announced on Wednesday night at the Women in Fi…
This is a weak excuse. If you do not put diversity on screen how can its value be proven? Looking forward to the release of Crazy Rich Asians
🙄“The biggest excuse that Hollywood has had around Asian-American talent is that there’s no evidence of box-office draw around Asian-American leads,” said Andrew Lee, an Austin-based film producer who hosted a soiree fundraiser to promote the movie. “Asians actually do spend money. It’s time to put our money where our mouth is.”
via Bloomberg
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Grand investment plans for unproductive regions have caused empires to founder before.
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Condé Nast boasted 12 billion digital video views last year. The company announced 35 returning series and 60 new pilots under development for this year.
Over the top (OTT) is a media distribution practice that allows a streaming content provider to sell audio, video, and other media services directly to the consumer over the internet via streaming media as a standalone product, bypassing telecommunications, cable or broadcast television service providers that traditionally act as a controller or distributor of such content.
The new offerings will be available on AppleTV, Roku and Amazon Fire.
Opening weekend for BlacKkKlansman = $10.8 million this weekend.
via Forbes
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Spike Lee scored his biggest opening weekend in 12 years.
Yes... Take advantage of the growing opportunities of streaming platforms and digital accessibility.
"To some degree, the public response is irrelevant. Nance found a perch at HBO, a premium network with a growing streaming service and wide international reach. Yes, it has a midnight broadcast slot (although that’s increasingly less relevant with the rise of HBO Go), which indicates HBO knows it’s for a niche audience. Still, that seems like a lesser barrier; a black content creator produced work that isn’t easily accessible for a mainstream platform. That’s an achievement in itself.
via IndieWire
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What Made Black Panther A Super Awesome Film Campaign?
⚡Large chunks of the campaign — from earned media to the trailers — emphasized the soundtrack produced and curated by Kendrick Lamar. His music was all over the push and helped reach the target audience in a real and powerful way.
⚡The film was positioned even more as coming from director Ryan Coogler than from Marvel Studios. Coogler was front and center throughout the publicity campaign, talking to the press about the story and what it meant to helm the first Marvel or DC movie featuring a black hero and cast.
⚡It was evident that the movie’s enormous success profoundly influenced the last few months of the campaign for Infinity War. Suddenly that film’s marketing featured a lot more scenes in Wakanda and included a lot more focus on T’Challa and the other characters.
via Adweek
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From Wakanda to Cruise, a bevy of interesting work.
New trailer, new love, new movie to patiently await.
If Beale Street Could Talk
via The Verge
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Including Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to Moonlight.
Disney and Marvel's blockbuster superhero pic Black Panther grossed $647 million overseas, while Hidden Figures and Straight Outta Compton also did solid business overseas.
But even in the post-Black Panther era, foreign distributors can still be reluctant to book U.S. films with a black cast.
Moonlight, which, buoyed in part by its Oscar win, grossed $37 million overseas, or more than half of its total gross.
via The Hollywood Reporter
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'Sorry to Bother You' will finish Sunday with a domestic total of $14 million.
We are in the news discussing a case for global Black film distribution and the hole we are filling in the industry at Flourishing Films.
"The challenge is even greater for indies without a studio’s backing. “Many of these films were being made, but not being seen by buyers at large,” Efuru Flowers said. She believed that black films would sell in the global marketplace if there was more representation in the sales sphere, and worked towards filling this hole in the marketplace by starting her own sales agency, Flourishing Films, which focuses on representing black and diverse content."
via The Wrap
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"There's not a lack of films that feature people of color, there's just a shortage of distribution opportunities for our stories," Ezra Ezzard tells TheWrap
Take the time to follow this Sundance Film Festival case study which offered a Creative Distribution Fellowship for two films, a grant and a suite of resources to support an independent creative release, in exchange for sharing their data and learnings with the field. -- many lessons to takes notes on.
Founded by Robert Redford, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization that actively advances the work of independent storytellers in film and theatre.
Interesting read... So the future is in online content?
According to the survey, cord-cutting was most prevalent among millennials, which the survey identified as those between 22-37 years of age. A large chunk of millennials identified as “cord-nevers,” or people who had never subscribed to pay TV. - MarketWatch
Comcast, AT&T and DirecTV will be hard-hit, says consulting firm cg42
Very interesting...
"According to the survey, cord-cutting was most prevalent among millennials, which the survey identified as those between 22-37 years of age. A large chunk of millennials identified as “cord-nevers,” or people who had never subscribed to pay TV." - via MarketWatch
Comcast, AT&T and DirecTV will be hard-hit, says consulting firm cg42
Themba Bhebhe talking diversity at the Bio to B – Doc & Biopic Business Meeting 2018 at the Biografilm Festival - International Celebration of Lives
#DiversityinFilm
Congrats all the shortlisted film but especially to The Night Shift Short for being included on The Wrap's Short List Film Festival.
These 12 films from around the world have won awards at major film festivals, and are eligible for both an audience and industry prize.
Vote for our film “The Night Shift Short ”! Written & directed by Marshall Tyler, Produced by Mmg Griffin & Efuru Flowers, Exec Produced by Viola Davis & Julius Tennon, Starring Tunde Adebimpe & China Shavers
Shout out to our entire cast & crew! You can find them here: www.nightshiftshort.com.
Vote for team Night Shift!!Voting begins today and runs through August 22
https://shortlistfilmfestival.com/film/night-shift/
These 12 films from around the world have won awards at major film festivals, and are eligible for both an audience and industry prize.
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In the case of Finland’s The Unknown Soldier, the filmmakers worked with Helsinki-based Hasan & Partners to develop a new way to work with brands, which helped augment additional, more traditional funding and grants. Where this was most useful was both in the creation of the film and its marketing, with well-known Finnish brands doing most of the heavy lifting. Instead of producers or studios footing the full bill, it was the brands that helped market the movie throughout the filmmaking process.
via Adweek
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The film, The Unknown Soldier, relied on brand partnerships and became a national hit.
Can't wait for this!
via The Hollywood Reporter
'American Film: The Black Experience' will focus on the untold story of African Americans in the entertainment industry.
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New Flourishing Films title: I'll See You Around written & directed by Daniel F. Pfeffer starring Lucas Monroe with a guest appearance by Roger Guenveur Smith.
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