Jon Reiss

Jon Reiss is filmmaker (Bomb It, Better Living Through Circuitry), author (Think Outside the Box Office) and consultant whose most recent book is Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul which he co-wrote with The Film Collaborative and Sheri Candler. He works with numerous film organizations, film schools and festivals to bring a variety of distribution labs and workshops around the world. His upcoming books concern new models of artistic entrepreneurship and the concept Producer of Marketing and Distribution.

What Jon will be doing at DIY DAYS

Artistic Entrepreneurship

Jon Reiss guides you through the new principles of artistic entrepreneurship – creating long term relationships with fans through engagement, live events, merchandise and digital releases. Half the time will be alloted for presentation, half the time will be devoted to workshopping audience projects/artistic brands.

DIY DAYS asks Jon

What are you currently working on that you’re excited about?

I’m excited about the book that I just co-wrotet with Sheri Candler and The Film Collaborative Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul. I’m very excited about the two new books that I am working on: one concerns the concept of the PMD or Producer of Marketing and Distribution. The second book essentially take the concept of Think Outside the Box Office and relates it to all the art forms/media creation – film, theater, books, games, photography, music, art etc. All the arts are converging in how they connect with audiences, yet most don’t know what other artists are doing that they could apply to their work – hence the book.

What are some of your favorite sites and / or mobile apps and brief why?

Techdirt.com – I’m a big fan of Mike Masnick and CWF+RTB=$
http://www.henryjenkins.org/
Hope for Film blog

What’s are you currently watching, reading or playing?

I’ve been affected by a few live events recently:
Got a chance to see Tich Nhat Hanh – a Buddhist monk and teacher – blew me away – reading some of his books. This summer I was blown away by “Sleep No More” an immersive theater production in NYC. On the lighter side – I got see a film noir water ballet in Baltimore “Mobtown Murder Mystery”
I’m reading a lot of historical biographies, just finished long tomes on Washington, Jefferson and Franklin. Fascinating to see that the frustrating dynamics of contemporary American politics were going on at inception.

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www.jonreiss.com
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