Building Your Audience and Distributing Your Indie Film

Big Apple Film Festival

Producer Josh Folan discusses building your audience and distributing your indie film. Josh Folan is a writer/director/editor/producer/actor that began making films in 2005, prior to which he studied finance at The Ohio State University. Filmmaking highlights since founding NYEH Entertainment in 2008 include 2018 Hamptons/Woodstock/Napa selection and Big Apple Film Festival award winner Ask For Jane, 2017 SXSW audience award winner The Light of the Moon, 2017 Tribeca best actor award winner Nobody’s Watching, 2015 Slamdance selection BODY, 2015 Raindance selection The Lives of Hamilton Fish, 2016 SOHO Int’l selection and 2017 Queens World best screenplay nominee catch 22: based on the unwritten story by seanie sugrue, 2011 Hoboken Int’l best screenplay nominee All God’s Creatures, Love Is Dead! and Amazon nostalgia doc series Batteries Not Included. Also an author and contributor to the independent filmmaking blog community, he penned the low-budget indie case study Filmmaking, the Hard Way. You can follow him (@joshfolan) and NYEH (@nyehentertains) on twitter and facebook if you’d like to keep up with his coming soons. There is also the NYEH Entertainment mailing list if you like things that make your phone vibrate.