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If you haven’t had the opportunity to look at Jon Reiss‘ film marketing guide “Think Outside the Box(Office),” well… you should right now.

Not only is the book a valuable guide, but Jon Reiss himself is pretty good at talking about film marketing, too. He’s hosting a variety of film workshops throughout America, so see if he’s coming anywhere near you! Read below for an update of dates from Jon Reiss, and learn more on his website.

NEW YORK
2-Day Workshop with Jon Reiss: A Live Step-by-Step Guide into the New World of Hybrid Distribution and Marketing in conjunction with IFP
June 5th from 9AM – 6PM. June 6th from 1 – 5PM.
The workshop will also include Lance Weiler (Workbook Project) who will give a practical “how to” design transmedia with a number of tangible examples. Film Sprout founder Caitlin Boyle will also join and talk about the power of community screening campaigns to seed grassroots support for your films and social change.  In addition, it includes a networking happy hour with reps from the industry and service providers as well as a CD Rom tool kit.

Feel free to check that you are an IFP member so as to get the member discounted price.

VANCOUVER:
2-Day Workshop: A Nuts and Bolts Guide to Distributing and Marketing Your Film presented by Biz Books, Vancouver, Canada
June 12th from 9AM – 5:30PM?.  June 13th from 9AM – 5:30PM.
You can choose either the Saturday Course or the full two day Weekend Option. Saturday will be a crash course on distribution and marketing.  On Sunday I will be working with only 20 filmmakers helping them to develop their distribution and marketing strategies in a seminar format with all 20 filmmakers participating.

SAN FRANCISCO:
TOTBO 2-Day Workshop presented by the San Francisco Film Society.
July 31st -1st from 10AM – 6PM.

SYDNEY and MELBOURNE:

Sign ups tbd. Stay tuned via AFTRS.
LOS ANGELES:
I collaborated with Film Independent to create Seize the Power: Marketing & (DIY)stribution Symposium as part of the Los Angeles Film Festival. I will be doing a bootcamp for competition filmmakers, but the public forum will have key players in the new marketing and distribution landscape, including: Scilla Andreen (Indieflix), Caitlin Boyle (Film Sprout), Ted Hope (This Is That Corporation), Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting), John Chang (Neoflix), Zak Forsman (Sabi Pictures), Nolan Gallagher (Gravitas Ventures), David Geertz (Biracy), Mynette Louie (Producer, Children of Invention), Bob Moczydlowsky (Topspin), Colleen Nystedt (MovieSet), Orly Ravid (The Film Collaborative), Lance Weiler (The Workbook Project), and many more.
June 19th from 1 – 5:30PM. June 20th from 10AM – 5PM.

ADELAIDE:
Presented by the South Australian Film Corporation, the Day 1 crash course will be followed by a screening of “Bomb It”. On Day 2 of the workshop, up to 10 participants can choose to have their projects used as a case study for alternative distribution.
July 19th from 9AM – 5PM followed by BOMB IT screening at 5PM. July 20th from 9AM – 1PM.

PERTH:
TOTBO Workshop at the Perth International Film Festival.
July 17th Crash course from 10AM – 5:30PM.

Festival de Cannes is one of the most anticipated and prestigious film festivals in the world. As the 2010 festival wraps up and the cleaning crews start sweeping up all the leftover mayhem, we thought we’d give a short list of our favorite Cannes films available on IndieFlix.

The following films screened at the Cannes Short Film Corner. You can view the entire list of Short Film Corner titles here, or our list of Cannes features, here.

The Snow Princess

Directed by Audrey Genevieve Holland, 7 minutes, stop-motion animation

Just released on IndieFlix, The Snow Princess is a dark fairy tale about a snow princess longs to live in the land of Spring. When she falls into the warm, lush world of Spring, she meets a new friend and embarks on a series of adventures… but at what price?

Bally Master

Directed by Gary Beeber, 22 minutes, cult documentary

This must-see award-winning film documents the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the bally stage at Coney Island’s “Sideshows by the Seashore” as he is shown, working the crowd, escaping from a straight jacket, swallowing razor blades, hammering a nail all the way up his nose and performing many other incredible magic feats.

Twitch

Directed by Leah Meyerhoff, 10 minutes, drama

‘Twitch’ portrays a girl stuck between two worlds: caring for her disabled mother and escaping in to the world of adolescence with her boyfriend.

For $9.95 a month, you can watch these three films, the rest of our Cannes selection and basically the entire IndieFlix library whenever you want. Ya, we’re kind of broken record when it comes to this whole “subscriber” thing, but it really is a good deal.

Our Roy Street feature this week has also debuted on Hulu! If you haven’t seen “This Is The Life,” now’s the time.

The documentary chronicles the rise of the legendary Good Life Emcees, started by a group of  Central LA teenagers in the 90s who rejected gang rap to explore the world of esoteric hip hop. The struggling youth taught each other how to eat better, live healthy and grow “like beautiful flowers out of dry ass dirt.”

This group of artists didn’t just empower their local communities – they went on to become some of the biggest names in rap and hip hop: Jurassic 5, Cut Chemist, Chali 2na, Pigeon John, Abstract Rude, CVE, Ellay Khule, 2Mex, Freestyle Fellowship, Medusa and many more. The choice to stay clean and stay out of the gang environment that dominated hip hop in the 90s greatly influenced their careers and what happens next.

“This Is The Life” is available for free streaming on Hulu, is playing at Roy Street Coffee & Tea tonight at 8 p.m., and is available for streaming and purchase at IndieFlix.