Ep 54 | How Filmmakers Are Using Collective Power to Beat Distribution Delays

The old rules of film distribution are breaking - and the smartest indie filmmakers are building something better. Lela Meadow-Conner( Arthouse Convergence) and Kathy Susca (The Film Collaborative) explain how the Popcorn List and its Digital Pop-Up are creating real momentum for festival films that deserve a wider audience.  In this episode we cover: Why the Popcorn List is intentionally not a traditional curation play How festival programmers identify films audiences will actually show up for Why the Pop-Up model leans on shared marketing, shared revenue, and a Filmmaker Solidarity Fund How Product of Culture is training filmmakers to build platform-specific vertical content that actually performs Why “social capital” may matter more than financial capital for indie film teams right now Learn more at thepopcornlist.com