Through Distributors
The best way to find a distributor for your film is to get the film shown at a film festival. This method will be costly but if you take the risk and manage to get a screening then there will be likely success to follow in finding a distributor. Coz Greenop managed to get a screening at Cannes Film Festival, and got the attention of some distributors there. He also tried to contact many distributors on social media. He managed to the his film on DVD in Walmart (USA) and Tescos (UK) which are the largest DVD distributors in USA and UK.The Top 10 distributors in 2017 (micro-budget films will most likely not be picked up by any of these distributors)
Self Distribution
Some people may chose to have full rights to the film and distribute themselves, which is a trickier process. The way this can be done is creating a website targeting the audience which the film is aimed for. The micro-budget indie can also be distributed through other platforms such as streaming websites (Netflix/Amazon Prime) which are much more open to indie and micro-budget films than VOD's such as iTunes. This method is a lot harder since you have to do all the marketing yourself but you keep a much large percentage of revenues.
Which Distributor?
There are many horror and low budget indie film distributors. You are probably not going to be picked up by any of the big 6, however there are many other good distributors as well.
Some of the distributors are:
- Terror Films
- Brain Damage films
- Hammer Film Productions
- Anthem Pictures
- Breaking Glass Pictures
Here is the website for Terror Films which also will help distribute your film onto streaming services
(Click on image or here to go to website)
We would use Terror Films to distribute our final cut.
