HealthCare Planet - African Series

Watch the Preview of Health Care Planet, an independent Documentary Series about Health Care Systems all over the world. We are Filming the African Series

See other HealthCare programs at; www.healthcareplanet.org

Muslims are not terrorists

Our Documentary Film, 'Muslims are not terrorists', A documentary on Islam and terrorism in Nigeria, a boko haram context was selected and premiered in the United States at the 2017 New York Peace Film Festival. Watch the Trailer below

See the Official Selection list here; https://www.nypeacefilmfest.com/films-for-2017-1

10 Things Every Filmmaker Should Know From John Sloss's Hot Docs Master Class

1. On how to utilize the current state of distribution as a filmmaker: "Our general feeling at Cinetic -- and we say this on a daily basis -- is that all good films have one community in common: Cinephiles. Which are people who just love good films. But if you push through that and go beyond it, every film has other identifiable communities. What the promise of infinite storage in cyberspace brings -- together with the ability to market directly to the core community for your film -- is this idea that you can now go out and monetize. You can go find the eyeballs that we meant to see your film even if you don't get the interest of the various distributors that usually pay money to pick up all the rights and release films theatrically."

2. On the importance of a theatrical release (or lack thereof): "If you want the most amount of people to see your film, it isn't something you'll necessarily accomplish by insisting on that it go through a theatrical release. There are films that lend themselves to theatrical release because of their spectacle or subject matter. But if you go to New York there are 22 films released every weekend and 18 of them just die a painful death. And I think those films actually get damaged in the after-market from having been released theatrically."

3. On handing over transactional rights to broadcasters: "The short answer is that you should be mindful of this as a filmmaker. The default position of any broadcaster is to take all the rights, but most of them will get off that position if they really want your film."

4. On what to look out for with digital aggregation: "I'm sick of the opaqueness of Hollywood accounting. Of distributors who basically tell you you are on a need-to-know basis. There are different components to aggregation. There's optimizing the film and being smart enough to know what the sequence of windowing and where the film should be so you can optimize the revenue. I'll give this example. I sold two films at the same time. One was "Freakonomics" and one was "Client 9." "Freakonomics" did huge business on iTunes and no business on cable/VOD. "Client 9" did huge business on cable/VOD and almost no business on iTunes. There's a lot of accumulated knowledge that comes with putting those films out and knowing what the sequence is. Can you do a stunt on Hulu for a day that functions as a word-of-mouth for transactional? It's sort of the wild west now... There's so many ways you can stunt and sequence a film to optimize it. And I think an aggregator should know that."