You’ve spent months or even years completing your documentary, so what to do next ? And how to make money from your project? Whether you are working on a distribution deal, or on the festival circuit - or still in your pre production phase - this could be helpful to think about.

Join Documentary filmmakers Chris Everett and Anjanette Levert for a conversation on how they have monetized their documentary films using a DIY (do it yourself) approach.

With your RSVP, you will receive a zoom link 2 days before the event. 

Christopher Everett is an independent film director, producer and curator, based in Wilmington, North Carolina. Christopher is the Artistic Director at the Southern Documentary Fund and is the founder of Speller Street Films. He's a recent Firelight Media Doc Lab Fellow. His debut feature documentary WILMINGTON ON FIRE, chronicles the 1898 Wilmington Massacre. He’s currently in post-production on WILMINGTON ON FIRE: CHAPTER II and also GRANDMASTER: THE VIC MOORE STORY which looks at the life and teachings of martial arts pioneer Victor Moore. Christopher recently launched a new content creation company + festival called 3 Chambers which aims to elevate hip-hop, anime, and martial arts culture.

Anjanette Levert is a filmmaker who recently produced THE ONLY DOCTOR (Dir: Mathew Hashiguchi). She is an alumna of the Southern Producers Lab by the New Orleans Film Society and the Sundance Producers Intensive as well as an invited panelist to the Sundance Producers Lab. Levert is also a Professor and the Director of Spelman College’s Documentary Filmmaking Program. In 2022 she was the recipient of the college’s Presidential Teaching Award. She is a CCNY alumna and former coordinator of the Documentary Forum at CCNY.

A Documentary Forum at CCNY and Third World Newsreel event. 

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