MISSION
INDEWORKS develops and produces independent talent and creative content for distribution through independent and innovative media channels. To create a collaborative environment where producers, writers, directors, actors, musicians, cinematographers, and editors have access to tools, projects and creative community in an open and dynamic forum.
FILM AND THE DIGITAL WORLD
The ever-changing boundaries of marketing and entertainment has presented a re-invention of film industry and the new opportunities to tell a story. The viewer/consumer continues to alter their relationship to content while integrating a multitude of communication channels (internet, mobile, social media, WOM, etc…) which has changed every aspect of their everyday life. The future of the film industry will know how to deliver engaging content to reach the viewer/consumer where they are and how they live. The true synergy will be found between the industry's creative talent with the expertise to innovate and produce new ways to communicate and engage a viewer/consumer. Digital technology has eclipsed analog alternatives in all content creation and distribution markets. The power of entertainment, the understanding of emerging technology and the expertise of social media will lead the future of storytelling.
THE NEW CINEMA STORYTELLER
“The imaginative application of the narrative mode leads instead to good stories, gripping drama, believable (though not necessarily "true") historical accounts. It deals in human or human-like intention and action and the vicissitudes and consequences that mark their course. It strives to put its timeless miracles into the particulars of experience, and to locate the experience in time and place. James Joyce thought of the particularities of the story as epiphanies of the ordinary. ”
— Jerome Bruner, Actual Minds, Possible Worlds, Harvard University Press, Boston
Since independent filmmakers create lower-budget and limited-release movies they have adopted digital cinematography in a faster pace. Digital acquisition technology has become more efficient and higher quality with content delivery channels have become unlimited. This makes digital cinematography the key tool leading the next storytelling generation.
— Jerome Bruner, Actual Minds, Possible Worlds, Harvard University Press, Boston
Since independent filmmakers create lower-budget and limited-release movies they have adopted digital cinematography in a faster pace. Digital acquisition technology has become more efficient and higher quality with content delivery channels have become unlimited. This makes digital cinematography the key tool leading the next storytelling generation.
WHO WE ARE
INDEWORKS was founded by entertainment, technology, new media and marketing veterans, Michael Sander and Brett McCall. The team is comprised of seasoned veterans in the film, TV, advertising and new media industries. INDEWORKS brings together and develops independent talent and creative content for distribution through independent and innovative media outlets. It is a distributed environment where film producers, writers, directors, actors, musicians, cinematographers, and editors have access to projects and each other in an open and dynamic forum.
WHAT WE DO
Talent & Content Development and Acquisition
INDEWORKS represents producers, writers, directors, actors, musicians, cinematographers, and editors. Through its contacts in the film production industry, INDEWORKS is able to match these talented individuals with appropriate creative projects. INDEWORKS has the ability to compile complete production teams for its own in-house productions or outside productions in need of talent and support.
INDEWORKS supports and works with independent, creative people working on unique, innovative, and exciting projects. It is committed to working to develop and maintain alternative funding sources and distribution networks for independent films. At the same time, INDEWORKS actively looks for opportunities to sell content to, provide talent to, and establish working partnerships with established commercial production companies in order to help keep its talent partners busy.
By working with the commercial establishment as well as producing independent projects, by bridging the gap between the two often-opposing worlds, INDEWORKS is able to create an economically viable enterprise while at the same time encourage and support innovation and creativity in cinema.
Project Development
INDEWORKS maintains a Development Production Fund, and relationships with production companies and investors, to help fund independent film projects that do not fit the often narrow parameters of established production companies and studios. The Project Development Fund supports the acquisition and development of creative properties and provides core financing for in-house productions.
INDEWORKS acquires original screenplays and other creative work for development into finished scripts ready for sale or production. Submitted work is evaluated by an acquisition team and either rejected or accepted for development. If a work is accepted, it is assigned to one or more writers who work on it with the original author to make it ready for sale or production.
INDEWORKS represents producers, writers, directors, actors, musicians, cinematographers, and editors. Through its contacts in the film production industry, INDEWORKS is able to match these talented individuals with appropriate creative projects. INDEWORKS has the ability to compile complete production teams for its own in-house productions or outside productions in need of talent and support.
INDEWORKS supports and works with independent, creative people working on unique, innovative, and exciting projects. It is committed to working to develop and maintain alternative funding sources and distribution networks for independent films. At the same time, INDEWORKS actively looks for opportunities to sell content to, provide talent to, and establish working partnerships with established commercial production companies in order to help keep its talent partners busy.
By working with the commercial establishment as well as producing independent projects, by bridging the gap between the two often-opposing worlds, INDEWORKS is able to create an economically viable enterprise while at the same time encourage and support innovation and creativity in cinema.
Project Development
INDEWORKS maintains a Development Production Fund, and relationships with production companies and investors, to help fund independent film projects that do not fit the often narrow parameters of established production companies and studios. The Project Development Fund supports the acquisition and development of creative properties and provides core financing for in-house productions.
INDEWORKS acquires original screenplays and other creative work for development into finished scripts ready for sale or production. Submitted work is evaluated by an acquisition team and either rejected or accepted for development. If a work is accepted, it is assigned to one or more writers who work on it with the original author to make it ready for sale or production.
INDEWORKS PARTNERSHIP
INDEWORKS Partnership is a subsidiary of INDEWORKS LLC. Based on the experience of founders, Michael Sander and Brett McCall, the need for a new type of distribution for independent films is evident. Thousands of great independent films are made each year and never find an audience. They play at film festivals all over the world and are never discovered by the sales agents and distributors that frequent only the top tier festivals, such as Sundance and Cannes. These festivals used to be filled with fresh original voices from new talent, but now act as advertising vehicles for “classic divisions” of major studios or showcases for already established actors, directors and producers. Film markets, like AFM, are too costly and complex for most independent filmmakers.
INDEWORKS Partnership offers distribution services to filmmakers who have feature-length films that have not found an audience. We also arrange licensing of film content to qualified buyers.
Finding an audience for your independent films has never been easier. New digital distribution platforms exist that will allow you to benefit directly for your work. INDEWORKS Partnership was formed to help you find your audience. Much of the work can be done by you, but if you want or need help creating the materials necessary to distribute your film, we can help.
Distribution Services
If you own rights to a feature film and you need help with distribution, we offer the following distribution services:
• Film Marketing Strategy
• Website Design §Creation of Facebook Profile
• Creation of Press Kit
• Creation of a Festival Strategy
• Preparation of distribution deliverables
INDEWORKS Partnership offers distribution services to filmmakers who have feature-length films that have not found an audience. We also arrange licensing of film content to qualified buyers.
Finding an audience for your independent films has never been easier. New digital distribution platforms exist that will allow you to benefit directly for your work. INDEWORKS Partnership was formed to help you find your audience. Much of the work can be done by you, but if you want or need help creating the materials necessary to distribute your film, we can help.
Distribution Services
If you own rights to a feature film and you need help with distribution, we offer the following distribution services:
• Film Marketing Strategy
• Website Design §Creation of Facebook Profile
• Creation of Press Kit
• Creation of a Festival Strategy
• Preparation of distribution deliverables
COMING SOON
