From Slamdance to Watergate with Dan Mirvish
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Today I bring you my conversation with Dan Mirvish. Many of you may know Dan as one of the co-founders of the Slamdance Film Festival, founded in 1995, as an alternative to Sundance for first-time filmmakers. Dan’s first feature was entirely self-distributed, but since then Dan has made several more films, including his most recent 18 1/2, a thriller/comedy about a White House transcriber who stumbles upon the missing 18 1/2 minutes of tape from the Nixon/Watergate affair, which she tries to leak to a reporter. While Dan has found distribution for most of his films, as he points out in the interview, the line between self-distribution and traditional distribution isn’t always so clear cut. Dan brings a wealth of experience to the table, and has some great things to say about how things work in and out of the industry, and also about his own personal experiences promoting his films in both theatrical and ancillary markets.
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