The Business
Funding 'Citizen Koch'; Creative Indie Film Marketing
Citizen Koch filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal on why their deal with public television fell apart; Jenny Radelet tells a tale of a film that found a marketing partnership through potatoes.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenDocumentary filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal were thrilled when Independent Television Service said they would fund and distribute their document Citizen Koch. But when the money was suddenly revoked, Lessin and Deal tell Kim Masters how corporate interests seemed to censor their public media project. And KCRW's Jenny Radelet brings us the story of another team of filmmakers' attempt to fund their independent movie through a marketing partnership based on potato chips.
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Kim Masters is joined by Michael Schneider, Executive Editor of TV Guide Magazine.
Read the story7 min'Citizen Koch'
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmakers of Trouble The Water, were thrilled when they were promised money and a public broadcast audience from ITVS for their new film, Citizen Koch. The movie follows corporate spending in elections following the US Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case.
Read the story14 minMarketing ‘Beneath the Harvest Sky’
When husband and wife team Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly were preparing to make their second film, Beneath the Harvest Sky, they came up with an unusual plan to distribute and market the movie before one frame was even shot. Their idea involved squeezing money, in this case, out of potatoes. KCRW producer Jenny Radelet has the story.
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