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		<title>The Best Payoff of All</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the release of The Sensation of Sight we’ve received countless comments and reviews from what appear to be ordinary movie lovers around the globe.  Here’s an example that posted last week on IMDb at the start of 2011:
“Well, this is kind of an odd movie. A group of people, all in some kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pitching our next film at Film-Com</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/pitching-our-next-film-at-film-com.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 16:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My producing partner Aaron Wiederspahn and I recently had the privilege of attending a rather unique film event in Nashville, narrowly missing the devastating floods that have inundated Music City, USA in recent days.
Unique is a good word to describe this three-day gathering—as far as I know, something that has never been attempted before.  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Patience and filmmaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I&#8217;ve learned as a producer of low budget features is the degree of patience it all takes.  A patience that allows one to keep his or her sanity as a project creeps along at a snail&#8217;s pace even though you keep pushing as hard as you can on a daily [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Netflix dilemma for filmmakers</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/the-netflix-dilemma-for-filmmakers.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/the-netflix-dilemma-for-filmmakers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Filmmaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVD movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In following all that’s been transpiring regarding current distribution paradigm shifts and the like, the most perplexing aspect for me is what is being said or, more accurately, not being said about Netflix as it affects filmmakers’ bottom line.
It’s pretty much a given that Netflix some time ago won control of the rent-by-mail DVD business [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the ideal future scenario for filmmakers?</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/whats-the-ideal-future-scenario-for-filmmakers.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/whats-the-ideal-future-scenario-for-filmmakers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Filmmaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thesensationofsight.com/?p=842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As our company struggles to raise the financing for our next feature, we’re spending a lot of time and effort asking ourselves—and lot of others who are following the rapid changes in our segment of the industry—just what might be the ideal set up for us in the future from the development phase of a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>What history can teach filmmakers</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/what-history-can-teach-filmmakers.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/what-history-can-teach-filmmakers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thesensationofsight.com/?p=726</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Part 24: Musings on the future of independent film distribution</title>
		<link>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-24-musings-on-the-future-of-independent-film-distribution.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-24-musings-on-the-future-of-independent-film-distribution.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Independent Film]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thesensationofsight.com/?p=677</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[art film house]]></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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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Strathairn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elisabeth Waterston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film distribution]]></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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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.thesensationofsight.com/part-21-our-diy-release-begins.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buzz McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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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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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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