Making Movies Outside Hollywood

Making Movies Outside Hollywood

~ How To Compete with the Hollywood Movie Machine ~

Hollywood is a global movie machine that dominates the world.

Hollywood films are made with enormous budgets and have tremendous marketing muscle, and are filled with celebrities whose faces are are known across the globe.

So it's no surprise that Hollywood films outperform local titles in nearly every market in the world, taking a huge slice of the local box office pie.

Smaller countries and American states outside Hollywood find it increasingly difficult to compete with this behemoth. The economies of scale present challenges beyond just the budget. Challenges include marketing their films to both domestic and international audiences who are buried under a mountain of alternatives for their eyeballs.

If they can't compete, local films get squeezed out, effectively silencing the local cultural voice of smaller countries, and the independent spirit of American states.

Growing up in Hollywood, living in Australia and New Zealand for the past 12 years, and spending an equal amount of time both inside and out of Hollywood, award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author Jeff Bollow brings a unique world perspective and film industry insight into the issue of Making Movies Outside Hollywood.

In this dynamic and engaging, practical real-world seminar that's packed with specific steps, tactics, and methods filmmakers can apply immediately, Jeff identifies the 5 New Brackets of the Global Film Industry. Each bracket must achieve very specific targets in order to succeed, and Jeff shows exactly how to do it.

With sales prices of film plunging worldwide, and even acclaimed winners of international film festivals failing to attract distribution, Jeff presents six key lessons from Hollywood that local filmmakers must use if they hope to compete locally and internationally. Plus, he shows how to take effective advantage of the new technologies that are currently changing the landscape of global entertainment.

Jeff's rare insight into storytelling and screenwriting from a local cultural perspective combined with his hands-on film experience in nearly every capacity make this a must-attend seminar for filmmakers, writers, directors, producers, film commissioners, festival delegates and anyone on the forefront of the global film industry.

This seminar is continually updated, and has been presented in various forms in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and the United States.

Come see Jeff in Malaysia, at:

Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival
(November 26 - 29, 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Check the KL Film Festival website for specific times and details

To invite Jeff to speak at your festival, conference, organization, or industry event, please make contact through Embryo Films.

Please note that early bookings are essential, as Jeff is typically in various stages of development, production and post-production on several projects at any given time.

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