Today we have a guest post from Mynette Louie and Tze Chun, the producer director team behind CHILDREN OF INVENTION. The film opens this weekend in New York and their whole journey through DIY/DIWO distribution has been fascinating to watch and a learning experience for us all. They have been truly brave and really generous sharing a lot of information along the way. I really love this film and truly admire both of them. Please support their film.
Tomorrow they will share their Top 10 Reasons Why They Are Glad They Turned Down The Distribution Offers They Received. Stay Tuned.
Top 10 (alright, 11) Reasons Why We Turned Down 8 Distribution Offers
1. Couldn’t get straight answers about revenue projections, accounting and recoupment. Why this is bad is self-explanatory.
2. Term was too long. Yes, it’s a lot of time and hard work to self-distribute, but we could always choose not to exploit some distribution channel if we figure it’s not worth it. We can’t, however, choose to get out of a 10 to 25-year deal. And if we did a 25-year deal, we’d probably be in old-person diapers by the time the rights revert to us. And that’s just sad to think about.
