HOW IT WORKS
FILMMAKERS:
- Register with Cinesouq
- Create your own FREE unique Profile page, with your
bio, resume, and awards (public) and contact info (private)
- Submit and upload your film's information: trailer, synopsis, cast and crew, key art and stills, reviews, and festival selections ($9.99 per month)
- Enter all available rights and pricing per territory for your title
- Pay related fees
- Instantly publish your title to go live for buyers/distributors, sales agents, and producer's reps to see
- If you choose to have your full length screener available, please send a DVD screener of your film to our offices (Recommended)
- Cinesouq will encode, watermark, and upload your film to our servers ($199 one-time charge)
- Your entire film will be available for private screening purposes within 72 hours of receipt
- Cinesouq will give you an additional 20 Screening Tokens monthly - you may issue those to sales agents, producer's reps for representation, and for licensing to buyers/distributors, who are not registered with Cinesouq, and invite them to screen your film
- You are now ready to market your film to anyone you desire, utilizing Cinesouq's unique platform and extensive community
- Cinesouq markets your film in a weekly newsletter to Distributors, Sales Agents, and producer's reps worldwide
- Cinesouq offers you relevant information on film distribution, and film delivery
- We provide with you extensive contact information for distributors, sales agents, and producers' reps
- Use your private chatbox to communicate and negotiate directly with all interested parties
- If you receive an offer from a distributor, you can utiliuze our sample contracts and delivery checklists to help you close the deal
- All of the tools are now in your hands to market and distribute your program globally
What else?
When closing a deal, you may choose to have Cinesouq act on your behalf to draft the contracts, collect the license fees, deliver the picture to the buyer, and get you paid. A flat fee of $500 applies, for this service per contract, excluding bank wire transfer fees or credit card processing fees.
Note: A 10% transaction fee is applied for each sale to a distributor achieved through Cinesouq.
BUYERS:
- Register, and list your company for FREE
- Cinesouq processes your
application to grant you accreditation
- You gain full access to Cinesouq
- Check available rights for
titles that interest you
- Review title info, watch
trailers and screen full-length programs instantly
- View pricing info for
titles and make offers
- Deal with the seller directly, or have the Filmmaker bring in Cinesouq to be the liaison
- Seller or Cinesouq drafts and execute contract
- You submit license fees
- Seller or Cinesouq manufactures deliverables, and
forwards all required materials to you
- You have a 30 day
inspection period to approve the video masters
AGENTS:
- Register, and list your company for FREE
- Gain access to viewing any and all of the titles on Cinesouq
- To watch full-length screeners, and make offers for acquisitions, you need to contact the filmmaker to be invited to screen their title
- Find new clients and films to represent
- If you choose to have a client's work placed on Cinesouq, set up a Filmmaker page.
- Upload your client's title information, trailer, cast and crew, key art and stills and for each title ($9.99 monthly per title)
- If you choose to have your full length screener available, please send a
DVD screener of your film to our offices (Recommended)
- Cinesouq will capture, encode, watermark, and upload your full-length screener ($199 one-time charge)
- Any registered and accredited buyer/distributor on Cinesouq can screen your clients' films on an unlimited basis and make offers
- Cinesouq will issue you an additional 20 views per month, included in the "Filmmaker plan"
Note: A 10% transaction fee is applied for each sale to a distributor
achieved through Cinesouq.