On Finding An Audience

‘And You Films’  promoting and screening Flashback at Magic City Comic Con in Miami, FL (January, 2016)

So you’ve made a movie! Or you’ve made ten! Or you’re sitting around thinking about writing the catchy tagline to a rough-draft outline that may one day become a screenplay that may sometime eventually be turned into a movie!

Any which way, possibly the most important thing you’re going to need (in addition to everything else that’s of immense importance) is an audience. See, here’s the thing: you could have made the best movie of all time, but if no one knows (or worse: if no one cares) then it simply won’t matter. It won’t win you applause or accolades; it won’t gain you attention or fame; it won’t make you money, and it might not even bring you satisfaction – because, like most things in this world, what’s the damn point if you don’t have anyone to share it with?

So how do you find an audience? There’s no simple answer – but there are some frames of reference to help get you on the right track.
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