The Film Collaborative offers a full range of affordable distribution, educational and marketing services to independent filmmakers looking to reach out to traditionally underserved audiences.

The Film Collaborative will achieve these goals without ever needing to own or exploit a filmmaker’s intellectual property rights, opening up a new landscape of distribution opportunities free of extraneous middlemen and unfair contract terms, and drawing heavily upon the promise of new media/digital distribution and the power of viral and social networking.

In today’s marketplace, the traditional avenues of distribution for independent and art house distribution have largely collapsed, leaving thousands of filmmakers without a way to bring their films to market.

As a result, there is a dire need for a service-oriented agency to step in to educate and empower filmmakers to reach out to audiences directly, to network with each other and trade vital experiences and marketing assets, and to master the tools of emerging DIY and new media opportunities.

By providing services geared towards educational consultation, low fee or commission-only sales support, non-theatrical distribution, DIY theatricals, grassroots/community outreach, low-cost publicity, and aggregation and marketing for digital platforms, The Film Collaborative will re-establish a crumbling link between independent filmmakers and underserved audiences.