Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes
You Made the Film. Now What?
This 90 minute workshop covers the back half of a film's life: legal, distribution, and marketing.
By the time you picture lock, much of what a distributor needs should already be in place. Releases are signed. Licenses are secured. Archival footage is cleared. Hopefully. What's usually missing is having all of it organized in a form a buyer's legal and delivery teams can accept, so we go through what to track from development onward and how to make delivery a handoff rather than a scramble.
Then we cover the distribution landscape, starting with the premiere and how it shapes the festival run, the press, and the offers that follow. We work through what aggregators and streamers provide and how long each kind of deal ties up your film. Most independent films never get an offer at all, so we look at what filmmakers have actually done to get their work seen on their own.
None of that works without an audience already paying attention, which is why marketing starts long before the film is finished. We get into the assets worth building during production and how a film reaches people before anyone hands you a budget.
Attendees leave with a legal binder template and a database of 85+ festivals, streamers, aggregators, and distributors, sorted by the kind of deal each one does.
You did the hard part. Let’s get it seen.
What We'll Cover
Clear It: The legal binder and why no buyer takes an uncleared film
Show It: Premiere tiers and a festival strategy that builds press
Sell It: Buy out vs. exclusive license and how long each one ties up your film
Deliver It: Aggregators and the delivery specs that stall a release
Do It Yourself: Self and hybrid distribution when nobody comes knocking
Market It: EPK, sizzle reel, key art, and running your own press
Expand It: Transmedia and how films build worlds beyond the screen
Who Should Attend
Independent and documentary filmmakers, producers, and anyone who wants to understand how a film gets released.
About GreenHause
GreenHause is a grassroots community built to give emerging filmmakers real access to the industry. We're building a network of producers in NYC through in person meetups, a Discord community, an email newsletter, and virtual and in person events, all designed to help filmmakers grow their craft and their network together.
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Instructor
Gautam Singhani is a NYC based Line Producer & Post Production Supervisor with 10+ years of experience across development, production, post, and distribution for features, series, and documentaries. He serves as Co-Chair of the Post Production Committee at the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and is an active member of the Post New York Alliance (PNYA). Through his consulting practice, Gotoma, he partners one on one with filmmakers to make projects investor ready: crafting budgets and schedules, advising on packaging and distribution, and supervising post production.
His credits include THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK (Oscar nominee), ALLEN V. FARROW (Emmy nominee), BECOMING COUSTEAU (BAFTA nominee), and LIL NAS X: LONG LIVE MONTERO (GLAAD nominee). Most recently at RadicalMedia, he delivered BONO: STORIES OF SURRENDER, the Emmy nominated immersive film created for Apple Vision Pro. He produced BLACK AS U R (dir. Michael Rice) with Billy Porter and D.J. Gugenheim, securing support from Gilead Sciences and the U.S. Embassy.