If you're hoping to get theater play, you're going to be disappointed. That's a lottery game and shouldn't be your goal. Netflix, Hulu, On Demand, Red Box, etc might be a good fit. We'll see if we can get some visibility.
I imagine you start with film festivals that might cater to the comedy genre. Get exposure from that and hopefully work that into some type of distribution based on interest after screenings. I've never directed (kudos to you), but that's the way it has worked for the couple movies I have acted in.
Yeah, already submitted to a bunch of festivals but it can also get pretty pricey. Would be nice to bypass the process and not have to wait forever since the festival process is so long.
Understand completely. If you can find distribution while bypassing the festival circuit, then more power to you. I know some of my film maker friends take festival submission costs into account when allocating a budget for the filming process. It isn't a production cost per se, but it should be accounted for ahead of time if possible (I know we are all not made out of money). Congrats on getting this done. It can be quite the daunting prospect.
It may not get a lot of traction but it can't hurt. Unless you don't want to risk a few assholes saying negative things about it, which happens pretty often on reddit even when things are good. I'd post it to www.reddit.com/r/movies and I guess www.reddit.com/r/trailers
Good looking out, dude! I'll be sure to do that. Do I need to register and all that? It's sad how technology has moved on without me.
Netflix doesn't pay much for indie projects from what I hear but from an exposure standpoint, it would be my first choice. I had Netflix in mind when I came up with the project. I think it would do really well there. Adam Sandler is still Adam Sandler. He's a name and he's safe. I hope to one day be paid like him to create good content.
