Filmmaker Toolkit
We’re hooking you up with the tools you need to make your films, build your audiences and get them into the world. These incredible partners have special offers for YOU!
BUILD YOUR AUDIENCE WITH GREEN INBOX
This is one of the most exciting additions to the crowdfunding space in a while. Green Inbox helps you turn your social media following ( from whom you might on a good day expect a 1% conversion rate ) into an effective personal email list ( from whom you might get a 20% conversion rate! ). We have seen Green Inbox totally turn around flailing campaigns as it really help organize effective outreach. Sign up with Green Inbox with a money-back guarantee offer on Green Inbox’s Facebook Package.
PROTECT YOUR DATA WITH G-TECHNOLOGY
They make the most reliable storage in the world. G-Tech is the principal sponsor of the #StayIndieTour and offer educational materials, panels and outreach about workflow, as well as apps to help you calculate your storage needs and the best hard drives to support them.
Exclusive Offers For Seed&Spark Filmmakers
Filmmaking Grant
Starting in October 2015, G-Technology will #BeAHero for campaigns participating in their sponsored WishList program. Filmmakers can receive up to $1,000 towards their campaign when G-Tech pushed the “Be A Hero” button on your campaign and take you across the finish line. Learn all about it here!
GET YOUR GEAR WITH FILMTOOLS
A family run business based in Los Angeles, Film Tools has pretty much everything you need, and has sweetened the deal on a few items just for filmmakers.
Exclusive Offers For Seed&Spark Filmmakers
Product Discount
Filmmakers who list any of the FilmTools sponsored packages and reach the GreenLight will receive a discount code to make their purchases on Filmtools.
GET THE MUSIC YOU WANT WITH SYNKIO
Synkio is a global hand-picked network of music professionals who are ready to make the right music for your next project. Synkio is the platform designed to massively simplify music licensing and help you get access to better quality music, for less effort and cost.
Using Synkio, film-makers can set up a project, complete with required rights, budget and a brief description of creative needs. Thousands of professional songwriters, composers, producers, music supervisors and labels will receive your project and consider it carefully, before they respond with some audio. Once you've selected somebody to work with, you can continue the conversation, finish any amends and the platform manages your payment and the contracts, so you can be sure that you have the rights you need, without having to spend time in negotiation.
Exclusive Offers For Seed&Spark Filmmakers
Free One-Year Membership
Seed&Spark users get ONE FREE YEAR of Synkio. That’s a $540 value. Sign up here!
BUILD MOBILE APPS WITH THROWING FRUIT
Throwing Fruit is a platform to easily create mobile apps from your content at no upfront cost. Built by artists, for artists ( like us! ), they've ensured you don't need to be a developer to use the service. Upload your video content, including the feature and bonus clips and price that content individually so you can be rewarded for your hard work. Upload set and production stills and cast and crew information. Link to your social media accounts, IMDB page and iTunes soundtrack. It's as easy as a few drag and drops. Then submit that project to TF and they take care of the rest. Seed&Spark offer: Waived monthly fee..
PUT YOUR FILM IN THEATERS WITH TUGG
Tugg is a web platform that enables you to bring your film to your fans' local theaters or community venues. Through Tugg, individuals are empowered to select a film, time, and nearby theater, and then spread the word to their immediate and online community. Once a necessary amount of people commit to attending, the event will be confirmed; and Tugg will reserve the theater, manage ticketing, and ensure delivery of the film, allowing the audience to sit back and enjoy the show. Tugg has partnered with over 85% of the screens in the country and has a growing library of hundreds of studio and independent films.
Tugg's Community / Educational Screenings offering provides individuals and organizations access to purchase a film's public performance rights to screen at the non-theatrical venue of their choice, e.g. a church, university, baseball stadium, community center, and beyond.
Tugg's Educational Sales team also conducts proactive outreach to universities, K-12 schools, media librarians, acquisitions librarians, and all relevant conferences / publications to make Tugg's selection of titles available to the educational and non-theatrical market. Tugg will also conduct customized marketing and outreach campaigns for top tier titles. Please contact us at communityscreenings@tugginc.com for more info.
COLLABORATE WITH FRAME.IO
Collaboration is a major part of filmmaking, but sometimes it seems as though technology hasn't quite caught up with the increasingly mobile and online workflows. That's why we're big fans of Frame.io. This collaboration platform allows users to upload, review, and share videos privately with collaborators anywhere in the world with a single application.
Exclusive Offers For Seed&Spark Filmmakers
S&S Filmmakers have access to a Frame.io "Starter Plan" FREE for 3 Months.
S&S Filmmakers who reach 1,000 followers have access to a Frame.io "Professional Plan" FREE for 3 Months
MASTER YOUR FILM WITH SIMPLE DCP
Simple DCP creates Digital Cinema Package ( DCPs ) for theatrical exhibition. Whether you're planning a film festival run or distribtuting your film to theaters nationwide, Simple DCP provides you with the tools and expertise to master your film with confidence.
Exclusive Offers For Seed&Spark Filmmakers
S&S feature films that reach 1,000 followers on the site have the opportunity to have their feature film and trailer mastered to DCP and deployed to 10 theaters for an all-in price of $500. For short films that reach 1,000 followers we will handle delivery of their DCP to festivals for a year-long period.
FINISH YOUR MOVIE WITH ENDCRAWL
Remember all of those people that helped you make your movie? Give them the credit they deserve without sacrificing time. Endcrawl untangles your workflow with online end credit collaboration. All with a speedy, 24/7 cloud render engine at your fingertips.
