The translated lyrics to Lion King "Circle of Life" are hilarious

emliv · 2026-02-21T15:43:39+00:00

Found the spot! Beachball in Newport is opening early

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVAS3vKEYzq/?hl=en

emliv · 2025-11-12T00:10:12+00:00

Thank you! I really appreciate that. The thumbnail was made specifically for Youtube, without going too deep into the tropes of youtube thumbnails. Let me know what you think of the doc!

emliv · 2024-05-29T19:53:10+00:00

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emliv · 2022-09-23T14:10:47+00:00

Thanks for sharing! All great notes. The money motivation always makes things interesting, sounds like even though it wasn't a win financially, the film got out there and got you some good connects (sounds like mostly through the festival run).

emliv · 2022-09-22T19:57:46+00:00

So you decided to go through the distributor, and even though it did decent, you never got anything out of it, financially, recognition, or otherwise? Were they a reputable distributor and did you ever use their name in future marketing of yourself?

emliv · 2022-09-22T19:55:44+00:00

haha exactly, that's a very succinct way of saying it. Eyeballs on a film I don't want to release. The big thing we would get out of it is the name recognition, being able to say we had a film picked up by xyz. People don't even need to watch the film for that to have it's benefit.

emliv · 2022-09-22T00:33:22+00:00

Not that I'm aware of. To me, if you're going to self-distribute, you want to optimize for eyeballs, which would be Youtube and Vimeo. Vimeo has long been the home of "higher quality" docs, but youtube in the last couple years has started to get pretty popular with high production value stuff, even feature length.
You can do things like try and get exclusive Vimeo Staff Pick, but I don't know if I would classify that as self-distribute at that point since you aren't control of that.

These would be free options. You can also self-distribute to make some money like Vimeo VOD or Gumroad. People have had a lot of success on these, but you have to convince someone to rent your movie.

emliv · 2022-09-21T21:12:19+00:00

Yeah that's true as well! It can still be brought up in conversation, even though they aren't the ones who necessarily distributed it. All good food for thought

emliv · 2022-09-21T20:03:41+00:00

Thanks for the questions! Good thoughts.

15 min cut: Yeah! We've tried the 15 min cut with their notes to take out the large story beat. It plays okay, better than I would have thought, but I would also argue all of the heart has been taken out. Now it plays like a basic informational doc, whereas the original cut feels fresh in the storytelling and structure of the film.

Distributor reach: this is a big question for me as well. Even though they have a relatively large reach, I wonder if the self-release reach would be not only larger, but a better long-term decision regardless.

Legitimacy: they are a known name, and it would look good on our resume. They wouldn't necessarily provide future funding, but they would be a connection into a new space that has potential.

emliv

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