Portsmouth Herald article on NH filmmaker

Here's another quick update on NH filmmaker Jim McCrackin. To promote its screening tomorrow night in Exeter, NH today's Portsmouth Herald features both Jim's new film The Other Side of Hell and the Ioka Theatre (going digital projection with Emerging Pictures) on the cover of their Spotlight section. Click here to read the article - Jim's controversial film has generated quite a bit of local press of late largely through the effort of he and his crew. They made a film they believe in and are doing all they can to make it as available to local audiences as possible.

As I've written here in the past, aggressive self-distribution is an extremely difficult path to take for the independent filmmaker as there are so many hurdles to overcome. However, due to the sheer volume of feature-length films currently being produced in the United States, the indie filmmaker faces absolutely overwhelming odds that their film will ever be accepted into a major film festival or be picked up by a legitimate distributor. So, unless indie filmmakers want few people people to see their film or to make no money, there is no other logical choice than a self-distribution strategy of some kind. With aggressive self-distribution, if done correctly, there's no more gratifying result or accomplishment for your film, both financially and artistically.

Keep fighting Jim.