My Spring & Summer Work Shops and Plagiarism

Hey Everybody,

I am booking my Spring and Summer Tours and I’ve just learned something interesting.  The work shops I teach are especially popular right now, aspiring filmmakers and film students really want to learn what I have to teach.  How do I know this?  Because my work has been plagiarized.

One of your colleagues sent me a note over the weekend telling me about a fellow who is advertising that he is teaching a Guerilla Marketing and Self-Distribution Work shop.   The description of his work shop was lifted word for word from the description I have been using for the last 3 years.

If someone else out there is teaching the same thing that I have been teaching for the last few years it must mean that this is a subject that students want to know about. 

What happens when your movie is finished?  It's not just about getting in to film festivals anymore, and hoping to find a distributor.   The marketplace is constantly changing and filmmakers have to keep up with it.   I have been self distributing my films for years.  I have watched all of these changes and had to adjust.  

Now we use MySpace and Facebook in our marketing, sites that didn't exist a few years ago.  What should you put up on YouTube or ifilm?  How do you drive traffic to a website?   Micro cinemas keep popping up (and disappearing), as do internet distributors.  What is a good deal and what isn't?  Should I try and release my film theatrically?

I love to talk to students and filmmakers about these changes and how to navigate the distribution mine field creatively.  Students love what I have to say, and most faculty agree with me after they've heard my work shops. 

So drop me a note (angryfilminfo@aol.com) and we can talk about content, my schedule and my reasonable rates. 

Wouldn't you want your students to learn from someone who is creative enough that he doesn't have to plagiarize someone else's work shop description?

Moses and I will see you out on the road.

Kelley

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