Folks,
Perhaps you have some ideas here.
Last year I convinced a shooter friend to help me create a short video portrait of a guy in my area who is a specialist in repairing player pianos. He's one of the last in the country. We watched work and followed him out on the road to repair a rare steinway player piano owned by a wacky and talkative old lady.
We shot a bit when he took her piano apart (around halloween) and another day when he returned it and got it playing again, just in time for some Christmas (with some xmas music rolls running through the machine.) Anyway, a nice piece.
The plan was to perhaps make a long piece about various craftsmen who are the last of their kind, or perhaps try and sell the short segment to a magazine format show.
Anyway, other work got in the way of trying to sell the piece. I wonder if anyone knows of a person specializing in sales of short self-contained pieces to regional and perhaps foreign TV? There used to be companies, like AtlanticTV in NYC that sold segments internationally, and companies like Ivanhoe currently sell medical breakthrough stories (that they produce).
Does anyone know how to find a market for these orphan pieces? I'd appreciate any suggestions.
DMCG
Perhaps you have some ideas here.
Last year I convinced a shooter friend to help me create a short video portrait of a guy in my area who is a specialist in repairing player pianos. He's one of the last in the country. We watched work and followed him out on the road to repair a rare steinway player piano owned by a wacky and talkative old lady.
We shot a bit when he took her piano apart (around halloween) and another day when he returned it and got it playing again, just in time for some Christmas (with some xmas music rolls running through the machine.) Anyway, a nice piece.
The plan was to perhaps make a long piece about various craftsmen who are the last of their kind, or perhaps try and sell the short segment to a magazine format show.
Anyway, other work got in the way of trying to sell the piece. I wonder if anyone knows of a person specializing in sales of short self-contained pieces to regional and perhaps foreign TV? There used to be companies, like AtlanticTV in NYC that sold segments internationally, and companies like Ivanhoe currently sell medical breakthrough stories (that they produce).
Does anyone know how to find a market for these orphan pieces? I'd appreciate any suggestions.
DMCG