WELCOME TO MARKETING YOUR MOVIE

MARKETING: The process of identifying and reaching specific segments of a population for the purposes of selling them a product or service

The hardest part of being a film maker is getting the world (or your neighborhood) to see your film. We understand your pain and are here to help you. On these pages, you will find useful ideas, brainstorms and ramblings to help you market your movie and draw attention to it. All of the tips come from professional movie marketers who have been there, so you know what you read is coming from the trenches and have worked. People ask Film Baby all the time why their film is not selling. That is the million dollar question and the reason we went out and put together this page. The thing to remember is there is no short cuts, making a movie means you are in it for the long haul and ready to do whatever it takes to get your end result.

Consider making a film like making a pie. The ingredients: 1/3 cup making the film, 1/3 cup releasing the film, and 1/3 cup marketing your film. Leaving out 1/3 of the ingredients will leave you with a pie that no one wants. When all the the ingredients are mixed together in a perfect balance, you have a film that people will want to see and will want to purchase.

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." -Hunter S. Thompson