HOW DO WE OPERATE

MARKETS:
Although we increasingly release films via Sundance, IDFA, Berlin and Toronto, our main release push takes place 2 times a year around the big TV markets, which most of our clients attend. Around 10 to 15 films will be selected each time.

• Each April: MIP TV in Cannes
• Each October: MIP COM in Cannes.

These are hardcore TV markets for all broadcast programming genres. The creative documentary is only a small part of these events. Aside from these hard markets there are 3 softer markets, primarily for the creative documentary. They are smaller and therefore easier to work.

• In April/May, Hot Docs in Toronto
• In June, Sunny Side of the Doc in La Rochelle
• In November, IDFA in Amsterdam

For films that have a theatrical potential we organize Market screenings in Cinemas:

• In February in Berlin during the film festival
• In May in Cannes during the film festival

We place our films in video libraries so the buyers can watch them:

• In April, MIP Doc in Cannes
• In June, Sunny Side in La Rochelle
• In November, Docs for Sale at IDFA in Amsterdam

Our website will give you precise information WHERE we go and WHAT we bring to these festivals and markets.

OFFICE MEETINGS
In between these periods we are following up by phone, e-mail, and in personal meetings to be sure that all our clients have paid attention to our films. We also travel at least once a year to London, Paris, Mainz, Cologne. Our New York office is in very regular touch with the American buyers. We find the personal approach and one to one meetings result in better sales.

FESTIVALS:
We strongly believe that festivals are wonderful tools to create interest from other festival programmers and theatrical distributors and video distributors as well as TV buyers and are also crucial for gaining prestige, reviews, buzz, and contact with audiences and other filmmakers. The higher a profile a film can obtain, and the more good press it gets, and the more awards it garners, the better the chances are that it will be shown at many festivals and have higher sales.

Films Transit International creates together with the filmmakers the filmís Festival Strategy and work on the LAUNCH festivals (World premiere, International premiere, European premiere, North-American, US premiere). Films Transit films have won awards at all the prestigious festivals. To give you an idea, on our website you can find information on which films have won where.

FILMS TRANSIT INTERNATIONAL attends: SUNDANCE, ROTTERDAM, BERLIN, AIDC Australia, SXSW, FULL FRAME, HOTDOCS, TRIBECA, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC, BRITDOC, MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL, TORONTO INTERNATIONAL, IFP NY, SHEFFIELD, IDFA-AMSTERDAM, and many more.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:
We are invited around the world to moderate and participate in panels (for example IDFA, Sundance, SXSW, Hot Docs, Sunny Side, AIDC); moderate pitching forums (for example IDFA, Hot Docs, Britdoc); Give Workshops; (Pitching Workshops, Who is Whoís etc.) Tutorshipís (Sundance Institute, Discovery Campus, Vertical Strategies, Eurodoc).