I’ve been testing boundaries, and that’s my new thing in this DIY self distribution process.
A few days ago I had a conference call with folks at Ostrow & Company. They’d asked for a copy of The Broken Hearts Club, reviewed it and, according to them, loved it. The folks told me they saw plenty of opportunities for the film for cable and overseas. I was overjoyed. Then they told me it was $12K to hire them for their services.
At what point did I forget to mention that I was a struggling artist-y independent filmmaker?
So on to the next thing.
I shipped the film to Italy after a very trying battle with DVD Studio Pro to make a PAL version DVD. I also picked several film festivals and festival directors and shipped a copy of the film to them. My associates have suggested I get the film in front of as many people as possible and thus, I am.
BHC may be going t San Francisco soon. We’ll see. I’m still waiting to hear from the Helsinki Film Festival as well, and the acclaimed Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival and the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival.
Oh, and there’s the London International Film Festival, to which I applied with an earlier cut of the film and then reapplied with the Hollywood Black Film Festival cut.
Lastly, after meeting some friends from Colorado, there is potential opportunity to screen the film in front of a gregarious college crowd — who’ll certainly appreciate some of the language I use in the film 
Tags: angelo bell, broken hearts club, DIY distribution, film festivals
I had the same conference call meeting… except it was $14,500, not $12,000, AND a monthly fee of at LEAST $500 for supplies. They charge the filmmakers directly for everything they do. Today they were on the cover of Hollywood Reporter, but apparently their filmmakers paid for their own advertisement. Just thought I’d pass on the word incase others wondered about them… Just lookin out for the fellow filmmaker