Now that the drama is over about whether the Academy would disqualify Andrea Riseborough for her rules-skirting DIY Oscar campaign for To Leslie, we can now return to the question every indie filmmaker wants to know. Just how do you run a DIY Oscar campaign on an indie film that grossed less than $30,000? I don’t know exactly how she did it, but I can tell you how I did it with my recent Watergate thriller/comedy 18½ that grossed about the same (though with slightly different results). In short, the road to getting an Oscar nomination (much less an award) […]
The post How To Run a DIY Oscar Campaign first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post How To Run a DIY Oscar Campaign first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/10/2023
- by Dan Mirvish
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Now that the drama is over about whether the Academy would disqualify Andrea Riseborough for her rules-skirting DIY Oscar campaign for To Leslie, we can now return to the question every indie filmmaker wants to know. Just how do you run a DIY Oscar campaign on an indie film that grossed less than $30,000? I don’t know exactly how she did it, but I can tell you how I did it with my recent Watergate thriller/comedy 18½ that grossed about the same (though with slightly different results). In short, the road to getting an Oscar nomination (much less an award) […]
The post How To Run a DIY Oscar Campaign first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post How To Run a DIY Oscar Campaign first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/10/2023
- by Dan Mirvish
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
At a time when big-budget Hollywood films have no guarantees of being seen by audiences at all, it’s gratifying that independent films can still find unique ways to connect with the public, largely by controlling their own destinies. I’m happy to say that after playing 25 festivals on four continents, touring with a 60-city theatrical release this summer and releasing on VOD in four countries, my Watergate thriller/comedy 18½ will also start “airing” this September on JetBlue Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Air New Zealand, Qatar Airways, Emirates and Singapore Airlines, among others. For the next several months, there’s a good chance […]
The post With Airline Sales, Watergate Film 18 1/2 Soars Into the Mile-High Club first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post With Airline Sales, Watergate Film 18 1/2 Soars Into the Mile-High Club first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 8/30/2022
- by Dan Mirvish
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Dan Mirvish’s film centres a transcriber caught up in the infamous scandal.
UK-based sales outfiit 101 Films International has acquired worldwide rights to Dan Mirvish’s Watergate drama 18 ½.
The completed film is inspired by the Watergate scandal, in which the administration of US president Richard Nixon attempted to cover up its involvement in the 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Office Building in Washington D.C.
The film centres on a transcriber who is thrust to the forefront of events when she obtains the only copy of the 18 ½-minute gap in the president’s tapes.
UK-based sales outfiit 101 Films International has acquired worldwide rights to Dan Mirvish’s Watergate drama 18 ½.
The completed film is inspired by the Watergate scandal, in which the administration of US president Richard Nixon attempted to cover up its involvement in the 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Office Building in Washington D.C.
The film centres on a transcriber who is thrust to the forefront of events when she obtains the only copy of the 18 ½-minute gap in the president’s tapes.
- 2/21/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Andrea Martin (Great News), Robert Ri’chard (Empire), Juani Feliz (Blue Bloods), Kate Rockwell (Mean Girls: The Musical) and Sullivan Jones (The Surrogate) are set for recurring roles on Amazon’s Harlem, the comedy series from Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions and Universal TV. They’ll join previously announced Whoopi Goldberg and Jasmine Guy, who also recur.
Created, written and executive produced by Oliver, Harlem, formerly the Untitled Tracy Oliver Project, is a single-camera comedy following the lives of four black women, friends from their college days at NYU, as they navigate sex, relationships and chasing their dreams.
Martin will play Robin, Camille’s passionate feminist mentor at Columbia University. Ri’chard portrays Shawn, Quinn’s sexy, stripper one-night stand who sticks around much longer than she planned. Feliz is Isabela, a local politician on track to beating AOCs record as the youngest member of Congress...
Created, written and executive produced by Oliver, Harlem, formerly the Untitled Tracy Oliver Project, is a single-camera comedy following the lives of four black women, friends from their college days at NYU, as they navigate sex, relationships and chasing their dreams.
Martin will play Robin, Camille’s passionate feminist mentor at Columbia University. Ri’chard portrays Shawn, Quinn’s sexy, stripper one-night stand who sticks around much longer than she planned. Feliz is Isabela, a local politician on track to beating AOCs record as the youngest member of Congress...
- 3/4/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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