What do you do when:
You make a film that plays at film festivals around the world.
You get a positive response and win a few awards.
Your film sells to over twenty countries around the world.
It gets released theatrically, on DVD and on Blu Ray.
But...
Your international sales agent simply refuses to pay you the money he owes, and stops taking your calls.
???
Obviously one way is through the courts, but this will be costly, lengthy, require fee advances to lawyers, and if the sales agent should go bankrupt, you're just going to be left with a lot of costs.
When the sales agent is a member of the IFTA, you can call for them to arbitrate.
But what if it turns out that the sales agent whose web page has always claimed that they were an IFTA member turns out not to be?
Basically, there is not much you can do.
Perhaps the only thing you can do is to publicise the story, so that other filmmakers might be able to avoid the same problems.
www.michaeltavernamontecristo.info
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Thank you.
Paul Spurrier
You make a film that plays at film festivals around the world.
You get a positive response and win a few awards.
Your film sells to over twenty countries around the world.
It gets released theatrically, on DVD and on Blu Ray.
But...
Your international sales agent simply refuses to pay you the money he owes, and stops taking your calls.
???
Obviously one way is through the courts, but this will be costly, lengthy, require fee advances to lawyers, and if the sales agent should go bankrupt, you're just going to be left with a lot of costs.
When the sales agent is a member of the IFTA, you can call for them to arbitrate.
But what if it turns out that the sales agent whose web page has always claimed that they were an IFTA member turns out not to be?
Basically, there is not much you can do.
Perhaps the only thing you can do is to publicise the story, so that other filmmakers might be able to avoid the same problems.
www.michaeltavernamontecristo.info
To read about it, visit:
Thank you.
Paul Spurrier