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Program Coordinator, Maine Humanities Council

The Maine Humanities Council is seeking someone exceptional to join our team!  The MHC is in the process of aligning our work with diversity and equity-based principles in order to acknowledge and address the marginalization that exists in our culture and within the humanities. As we grow our staff, the MHC is committed to enhancing our connections in the most rural parts of Maine. While our offices are located in Portland, most of the job will be remote work, and we invite candidates from all parts of Maine – particularly from rural areas – to apply. 

For more information, please visit their website.

Applications due November 19, 2021. Please submit cover letter and resume with contact information for references to info@humanities.org.

Negotiations to prevent a strike that could bring the film and television production business to its knees are going down to the wire.

Matthew Loeb, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, said early Wednesday that unless an agreement is reached, 60,000 union members will begin a nationwide strike against the major studios on Oct. 18 at 12:01 a.m. Such a work stoppage would be catastrophic, halting production across the U.S.

This Stage 32 Blog comes from Martin Gooch, a director and screenwriter based in London, England. 

When should you first start talking to distributors to sell your film? Unless you’re an industry veteran, I bet you’ll be surprised to find out the answer. In this article, I’m covering Stage 32’s Film Finance Summit 2021 – the distribution portion.

In the first portion of this article, we go over where distributors look for films, when to talk to them, and what’s in demand. In the second portion, I share wisdom from the panelists about backing into your budget, what films are going to theaters, what contracts look like in streaming vs. all rights distribution deals, and predictions for the future of the entertainment industry.

This Stage 32 Blog comes from Martin Gooch, a director and screenwriter based in London, England. 

Most people making TV and film want to know what types of shows financiers and buyers are investing in right now. Here you go…

I came up with this list based on what financiers and distributors said during the Stage 32 Film Finance Summit. Note that most of them are focused on independent films, but a few people did TV and studio films. I’ve listed the biographies of each person mentioned in this article at the bottom of this article.

This Stage 32 Blog comes from Martin Gooch, a director and screenwriter based in London, England. 

Stage 32’s Film Finance Summit rocked. The panelists were “unfiltered and unhinged,” said one of the Stage 32 moderators, Amanda Toney. Another Stage 32 moderator, Harrison Glaser called them, “unvarnished,” and personally, I loved the speaker’s honesty and transparency.

With three panels on producing, finance, and distribution, the Summit took a complex and open look at the state of the film and TV industry in 2021. I’ve remixed the wisdom from all three panels together in a 3-part blog series of articles under the following sections:

1. This intro and what audiences want
2. Attracting talent, investors, and buyers/distributors
3. What finance and distribution deals look like today