The Insider's Guide to Independent Film Distribution

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Self-Distribution and Other Alternatives to Traditional Distribution

Filmmaker Case Study: Tamar Halpern, in Her Own Words

A popular term, do-it-yourself, has become a concept so suddenly well known that it need only be used in its anacronymic form. Reams of magazines devoted to D.I.Y. lifestyles and fashion, television shows which depict D.I.Y. gardening and interior design, even the use in sentences such as “We’re promoting our band through D.I.Y. venues like MySpace” have elevated the concept from subculture to mainstream.

D.I.Y. also describes ...