The Slamdance Film Festival champions revolutionary films. Creative risks and a grassroots approach empower filmmakers to change our perspectives — and change the medium as we know it. 

On May 5, 2019, I moved my worldly belongings out of my Brooklyn apartment and moved a fraction of them, my husband, and super-talent documentary filmmaker Kiwi Callahan, into a rental RV. We embarked on The Joyful Vampire Tour of America — a 51 screening, 40-city, 3-month, 13,001-mile journey to release our indie feature film, Bite Me, a subversive romantic comedy about a real-life vampire and the IRS agent who audits her.

How do you get your content out there? That’s a conversation too big for one blog post, but I’d like to share some information that might be helpful if you’re dipping your toe into targeted digital advertising for your movie, more specifically your movie trailer. For a lot of people, the trailer is ground zero. It’s the first impression, and its value can’t be overstated. You might’ve built up a small audience beforehand, but getting to new people is always a challenge.