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Update: Indie Film Publicists List

It’s that time again. Filmmakers are scrambling trying to find someone to help spread the word at the Sun & Slam Dance Fests. Last year I ran a list of publicists, and here it is again with a few updates.

 

Let me know whom I forgot, okay?

Updated: 09.26.13

 
 

42West
(www.42west.net, 11400 W. Olympic Blvd, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90064,
220 West 42nd Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10036)
Offices: New York, Los Angeles
Recent films/projects/campaigns :

Acme Public Relations
(1016 Pier Ave., Suite 2, Santa Monica, CA 90405)
Offices: Los Angeles
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
Brigade Marketing:
(http://www.brigademarketing.com
Offices:
Contact:
Partners: Adam Kersh
Recent films/projects/campaigns:
 
B|W|R.
(http://www.bwr-pr.com, 5700 Wilshire Blvd., #550, Los Angeles, CA 90036,
825 8th Avenue, #15, New York, NY 10019)
Offices: New York, Los Angeles
Contact: info@bwr-la.com
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
DISH COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
(www.dishcommunications.com, 10000 Riverside Drive, Suite 5, Toluca Lake, CA 91602)
Offices: Los Angeles
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
dominion3 PR
(www.dominion3.com, 6464 Sunset Blvd., Suite 740, Hollywood, CA 90028)
Offices: Los Angeles
Partners: Kim Dixon
Recent films/projects/campaigns : Mulberry Child, The Pill
 
Donna Daniels Public Relations
(20 W. 22nd St., Suite 1410, New York, NY 10010)
Offices: New York
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
Falco Ink.
(www.falcoink.com, 850 7th Avenue, #1005, New York, NY 10019)
Offices: New York
Partners: Shannon Treusch, Janice Roland
Recent films/projects/campaigns : Fruitvale Station
 
Fat Dot
(www.fatdot.net, 89 Bedford St.,Suite 1,New York, NY 10014)
Offices: New York
Partners: Weiman Seid
Contact: info@fatdot.net
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
Frank PR
(http://www.frankpublicity.com/Home.html)
Office Phone:646-861-0843
Partners: Lina Plath and Clare Anne Darragh
Recent films/projects/campaigns : overall publicity for the Hamptons film festival, the Stoning of Soraya M
Offices

Hook Publicity:
Jessica Uzzan (Ph) 646-867-3818 Jessica@hookpublicity.com

ID-PR
(www.id-pr.com, 8409 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069,
150 West 30th Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10001)
Offices: New York, Los Angeles
Recent films/projects/campaigns :

inclusive pr
(http://inclusivepr.com, 6646 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 205, Hollywood, CA 90028)
Offices: Los Angeles
Recent films/projects/campaigns :

Indie PR
(www.indie-pr.com, 4370 Tujunga Ave., #105, Studio City, CA 91604)
Offices: Los Angeles
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
International House of Publicity
(853 7th Ave., Suite. 3c, New York, NY 10019)
Offices: New York
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
Jeremy Walker + Associates, Inc.
(www.jeremywalker.com, 171 W. 80th St., #1, New York, NY 10024)
Offices: New York
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 

Lisa Rinkus
LJPR
Boston, Mass.

http://www.ljpr.net

617 965 9847

lisa@ljpr.net

Recent films/projects/campaigns :

mPRm Public Relations
(www.mprm.com, 5670 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2500, Los Angeles, CA 90036)
Offices: Los Angeles
Partners: Mark Pogachefscky
Recent films/projects/campaigns : Life During Wartime
 
Murphy PR
(www.murphypr.com, 333 Seventh Avenue, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10001)
Offices: New York
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
PMG
(www.platformgrp.com, 8265 Sunset Blvd., Suite 106, W. Hollywood, CA 90046,
1359 Broadway, Suite 732, New York, NY 10018)
Office: Los Angeles, New York
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
PMK/HBH
(www.pmkhbh.com, 700 San Vicente Blvd., Suite G 910, West Hollywood, CA 90069,
622 Third Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10017)
Offices: New York, Los Angeles
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
Roberson Public Relations
7200 Franklin Ave., #501
Los Angeles, CA 90046
david@robersonpr.comcell 310-625-8786 tel 323-969-9014
http://pro.imdb.com/company/co0118962/
@H077y300d
 
Rogers & Cowan
(www.rogersandcowan.com, Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue, 7th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90069, 919 Third Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10022)
Offices: New York, Los Angeles, London, Beijing
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 
Sophie Gluck & Associates
(124 West 79th St., New York, NY 10024)
Offices: New York
Recent films/projects/campaigns :
 

Shotwell Media
(2721 2nd St. # 205, Santa Monica, CA 90405)
tel. 310-450-5571

Partners: Sasha Berman

Recent Films/Projects/ Campaigns:
 
Susan Norget Film Promotion
(www.norget.com, 198 Sixth Avenue, Suite 1, New York, NY 10013; susan@norget.com, 212-431-0090)
Offices: New York
Recent films/projects/campaigns : Cutie & The Boxer
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Wanted: List Of Film Clubs & Societies

We’ve been curating a regular screening series in conjunction with our friends at Goldcrest all year. It’s free and every screening has been filled to capacity. We send out 800 emails to “influential media types” here in NYC and have 60 seats. Makers Mark Bourbon gives us some fine sippin’ whiskey to share afterwards. The filmmakers always come and we do a Q&A afterwards. It’s a lot of fun, the films have been great, and the filmmakers have made important connections from it. Most importantly it builds word of mouth for these films that deserve more. My dream is to get some form of sponsorship so we could give the filmmakers a speaking fee and fly folks in from out of town.

Unfortunately, I don’t know of more. My friend Pericles Lewnes and his wife Lisa have a series down in Annapolis, Maryland called The Pretentious Film Society and they have gotten good press. And you can follow them on Twitter here. But there’s got to be a whole lot more of such clubs, right? Let’s find them.
Imagine if we had a list of 50 or so of these, that could be used to build advance buzz for your films so that when they eventually played in those markets you had supporters who would help promote your film to their social network. Wouldn’t that be great?
Imagine if all these societies actually had a little funding to bring filmmakers to town so that they could do advance publicity in anticipation of their release. Field publicity always helps but its expense makes it out of reach of most Truly Indie filmmakers, particularly those taking the DIY route. Finding a way to decrease this cost is crucial to indie film’s survival.
So let’s get started. Let’s build this list. You did a great job building the list of blogs that cover undistributed films (although Jake Abraham still gets the most gold stars for his contribution).
Do you know of any film clubs? How do we contact them? What do they like to show? Do they require filmmakers to be there? Can they pay anything? There is a spot in our Indie Film Hero list for whoever contributes the most information.
Subsequent notes:
Christophe Lepage pointed out on FB this great listing of over 92 Film Clubs world wide:
http://www.filmclub.com/film_festivals/action/?go=club_search
And finally, if you don’t know of a film club in your area, why not start one? We did. I am sure I can put a lot of indie filmmakers in touch with you who would love to screen their film.
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Cheat Sheet #5: More TFF Publicity Advice

Today’s post is again brought to you courtesy of Jon Dieringer, and is part of continuing series of cheat sheets from prior TFF posts.

-A good publicist might still be worthwhile (http://trulyfreefilm.blogspot.com/2008/10/film-festival-plan-still-need-to-hire.html)

-Postcards/business cards are good, can be cheaper than posters (http://trulyfreefilm.blogspot.com/2008/10/film-festival-plan-posters-postcards.html)
(http://trulyfreefilm.blogspot.com/2009/01/printing-posters-postcards.html)

-Target certain blogs and send DVDs of your film out in advance (http://trulyfreefilm.blogspot.com/2008/10/film-festival-plan-getting-word-out.html)

-Tech/Social networking/Web marketing things explained
(http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/Making+Media+Conference)
(http://mashable.com/2008/12/27/how-to-2008/)

-Link to article on web design trends:
(http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/09/movie-website-designs-examples-and-current-practices/)