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		<title>What history can teach filmmakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As is hinted at by the comments attached to my last post (Musings on the future of independent film distribution), all of us in the “indie” filmmaking arena are alert to the fact that everything is changing, and that this is especially the case at the distribution end of the pipeline.
A myriad of good ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 24: Musings on the future of independent film distribution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film production]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the release of The Sensation of Sight in the summer of 2008, the independent film industry has been pretty much turned on its head.
And this is especially true regarding distribution.  It comes as no surprise to anyone who has been following the independent film business that the last couple of years have seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 23, From DIY to distributor to domestic release</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-23-from-diy-to-distributor-to-domestic-release.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-23-from-diy-to-distributor-to-domestic-release.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art film house]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIY film distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independent feature film]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Monterey Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the sensation of sight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Six months after our DIY release ended, our newly signed distributor Monterey Media began a limited theatrical release, commencing in the late summer of 2008 in several cities throughout the country.
We had traveled to California that spring to meet with the Monterey Media staff, spending the better part of a day at their offices in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 22, Our DIY release leads to a distributor</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-22-our-diy-release-leads-to-a-distributor.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-22-our-diy-release-leads-to-a-distributor.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Strathairn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth Waterston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film distribution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ian Somerhalder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As described in my last post, our theatrical world premiere opening night at The Colonial Theatre in Keene, NH was a big success.
We sold out the nearly 1000-seat house and turned hundreds away.  We were fortunate to have our congressman Paul Hodes join us along with the state’s first lady Susan Lynch, Keene’s mayor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 21, Our DIY release begins</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-21-our-diy-release-begins.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Strathairn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Waterston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film distribution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ian Somerhalder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peterborough NH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Colonial Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the beginning of this project we were fairly certain that one way or another we going to have a special premiere for the film here in New Hampshire.
After all, the film was entirely shot in Peterborough—the same town Thornton Wilder used as his model for his wonderful play &#8220;Our Town&#8221;—and we raised roughly 90% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 20, On the road to distribution</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-20-on-the-road-to-distribution.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-20-on-the-road-to-distribution.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film distributors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our festival run got underway with San Sebastian, we were already thinking in terms of finding a distributor.
I have to say at the outset of sharing this part of our journey that the timing for us with this film in terms of what was beginning to happen in the industry in general for indie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 19, Taking our film to Eastern Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-19-taking-our-film-to-eastern-europe.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-19-taking-our-film-to-eastern-europe.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edvinus Puksta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Somerhalder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the sensation of sight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vilnius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vilnius International Film Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After our American premiere at the Starz Denver Film Festival we continued to tour the festival circuit for well over another year. The entire list of seventeen festivals can be found on this website&#8217;s film festival page.
It was quite an adventuresome time for us as we always had at least two more festivals looming as another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 18, Playing the film festival game</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-18-playing-the-film-festival-game.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-18-playing-the-film-festival-game.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie filmmakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Sebastian International Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sao Paolo International Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starz Denver Film Festival]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you’re just starting out with your first feature film, playing the festival game can be a bit daunting.
The dilemma, of course, is to know—especially at the front end of a film’s festival run—which invites to accept.  Everyone told us to be careful and strategize how we wanted to play this.  The premiere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 17, Hanging out at the San Sebastian Film Fest</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-17-hanging-out-at-the-san-sebastian-film-fest.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-17-hanging-out-at-the-san-sebastian-film-fest.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Somerhalder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indie filmmakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kursaal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once our opening night was over all of us breathed a sigh of relief and set about having a good time at the festival in one of most beautiful cities in Europe.  The festival itself helped out in numerous ways by supplying us with great hotel rooms with ocean views, passes to everything, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 16, How we almost missed our world premiere</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-16-how-we-almost-missed-our-world-premiere.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-16-how-we-almost-missed-our-world-premiere.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Somerhalder]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zalbategi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron and his wife Keri and me and my wife Kris flew from Boston to Paris, then took a connecting flight to Berlitz in the far southwest corner of France. Picking up a rental car, we drove into Spain from there, arriving in San Sebastian about an hour later.
Ian Somerhalder and fellow &#8220;Lost&#8221; star Maggie [...]]]></description>
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