For $12,000, your feature film can qualify for the Academy Awards. The "Oscar Qualification Package" is just one of the many options provided by Cinemaflix Distribution, a new company founded by former Quad Cinemas president Elliott Kanbar and David Rabinovitch. Rather than being yet another distribution company, Cinemaflix is an all-in-one distribution team. For a flat fee (should your film be accepted), Cinemaflix's in-house publicists and producers will market your film, represent it at festivals, help you secure multi-platform streaming deals and a theatrical release at a theater in New York or Los Angeles. You retain the rights to your film and whatever additional income it generates. During his tenure at Quad Cinemas, Kanbar founded QuadFlix Select, a similar program that, for a flat fee, helps filmmakers screen (at Greenwich Village's historic Quad Cinemas) and market their work, sell DVDs and find VOD contracts. QuadFlix Select also offers an "Oscar.
- 1/12/2015
- by Elizabeth Logan
- Indiewire
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