The start of the Global Peace Film Festival film festival is just around the corner— but there is already plenty to watch on their YouTube channel: interviews and panels are now live that give depth and context to the program. Check it out and consider subscribing to the GPFF YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/eRtwFrw #filmfestival #peace
Tickets are on sale now (peacefilmfest.org)
Global Peace Film Festival has had an impactful relationship with the distributor, Bullfrog Films Inc, over the years. Bullfrog is one of the longest lasting non-theatrical distributors. Its clients used to be libraries, universities and schools but they now include all sorts of special interest groups. The company has evolved from 16mm delivery to streaming.
The Global Peace Film Fest’s Nina Streich and her second-in-command, Kelly DeVine interviewed John Hoskyns-Abrahall, Winifred Scherrer and Alex Hoskyns-Abrahall at Bullfrog about their long, fruitful and continuing work to support documentary film, filmmakers and audiences. Check out the interview
50 years old, what began as natural foods, health consciousness-in-US-made-films…made five films…then published a magazine because film distribution was too difficult, so John Hoskyns-Abrahall, Winifred Scherrer and Alex Hoskyns-Abrahall began making and distributing; making films proved too difficult, so they started distribtuion company Bullfrog Films to distribute other environmental films which was not in school curriculum. As it caught on, more and more films were produced on the environment.
Wini: The focus has changed Nuclear Power, then Nuclear Weapons, then librarians were buyers…we always look for connections between issues. We are interested in films that cross barriers of issues. Libraries had non fiction film collectons. Then we went to colleges, connecting with different disciplines. Pandemic made more shifts in what librarians and colleges wanted to deliver.
We now have a community screening site, Bullfrog Community, to enhance public performance of films, provide posters, questions, etc. The is a very big change for us.
Festivals/ Distributors have editorial eye and conversations with users and filmmakers…delivery was dependent on their needs. Originally if someone want to buy a 16mm film it would cost $850. Now with streaming, libraries still want DVDs for their collections.
Schools no longer require 20 minute films to enable questions and lessons around the one hour class session. Sundance Film Festival’s docs changed this. Now with streaming, the teacher assigns watching at home and discusses it in class.
Industry and audience changes have changed formats of films many times over. Social issue documentaries were standard fare in public librariees. K-12 became centralized around certain disrtributors with very curtailed budgets for buying. Universities and Colleges were more stable but are now also instable.
The exchange of films between Bullfrog and the Global Peace Film Festival also highlights changes in the “educational film market” and distributors’ place within the festival film circuit.
On a final note, in marking Ukraine Independence, please consider seeking out conversations with Ukrainians such as the Global Peace Film Festivalconversation with filmmaker Katya Soldak: https://lnkd.in/eWA5f9WW#GPFF2022
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