Advisor Studio: Matt McCormick (BUZZ ONE FOUR) & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck (WHEN SHE RUNS) on Distributing Your Short
About this Advisor Studio
In Advisor Studio sessions, Sundance Collab Advisors share field experiences and insights into their specific areas of craft, including writing, directing and producing for TV and film.
Great news, you’ve made a short film...now what? The short film market continues to be an evolving space full of opportunities, but equally, full of its challenges. Join us as filmmakers and professors Matt McCormick and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck guide us through today's distribution landscape for short films. We'll discuss the importance of having a clear vision before creating your work, how to prep and strategize a distribution plan, and explore the avenues available for getting your projects out to audiences. We'll also examine how the distribution of short films has changed over the years — and hear their perspective on what to expect moving forward. This conversation will give you practical advice and recommended resources to help you set goals and navigate the highs and lows of distributing your short film.
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Matt McCormick
Advisor
Matt McCormick is a filmmaker and artist whose work blurs genre distinctions to construct witty, lyrical observations of history, culture, and geography. Working at the intersection of documentary and artistic production, McCormick investigates forgotten histories while exploring experimental cinematic formalism. His films, which include THE SUBCONSCIOUS ART OF GRAFFITI REMOVAL, SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS, THE GREAT NORTHWEST, and BUZZ ONE FOUR, have screened in venues ranging from the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art, and have received favorable reviews from The New York Times, Art Forum, and many other media outlets.
Beyond filmmaking, McCormick led programming for the PDX Film Festival and Boathouse Microcinema and served as a guest curator for the Venice International Film Festival and the Portland Art Museum. He has also directed music videos for The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, Broken Bells, and more. Based in the Pacific Northwest where he is an assistant-professor of Art and Integrated Media at Gonzaga University, Matt received a BA in Moving Image Arts from the College of Santa Fe and an MFA in Media Study from the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
More information about his work can be found at www.mattmccormick.art
Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck
Advisor
Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck is an award-winning filmmaker, who’s work spans across the narrative and documentary spectrum. His films have screened at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Locarno and CPH:DOX. He currently is teaching film at California State University Monterey Bay.