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Independent filmmakers bomb at live auction
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.
(AP) - Independent filmmakers drew
laughs and a few bids at the first live
movie auction but failed to sell a single
film.
Promoters are still holding out
hope that some bidders will follow
through and snap up some of the 15
films that included a tale of four 20
something sunbathers talking about
sex and a documentary starring live
rodents from the nation’s capital.
“It’s not like we threw a party and
no one came,” said Alfred Newman, an
event spokesman, who pointed to the
auction’s standing-room-only turnout.
The Films4Auction event Friday
night was touted as a new way for inde
pendent films to get distribution. Some
300 people gathered at a hotel ball
room for the public sale and watched
clips of the independent films, but only
an estimated 27 in the audience were
potential buyers, organizers said. A
few waved paddles to offer bids.
The entire lot failed to meet the
non-disclosed reserve prices set by the
organizers, the auction house and the
movies’ producers.
The screenwriter and director of a
romantic comedy dubbed “Killing
Cinderella” said festivals like
Sundance have become a showcase for
polished works, not for getting inde
pendent films distributed. Even if her
film didn’t get picked up at the auction,
Lisa Abbatiello, 29, thought it might be
good just to say she was part of the pre
miere event.
“I just decided to take the risk,” she
said.
Bidding for her film, a romantic
comedy about a young woman torn
between a sophisticated Prince
Charming and her bartending best
friend, was started at $ 175,000, but the
minimum price needed to sell the film
was not met.
Rudolf Van Den Berg of Holland
was trying to get distribution for his
sixth feature film, “For My Baby,”
about a troubled man who dresses up
like his dead sister as a way to remem
ber her. But the $750,000 minimum
bid passed with no interested buyers.
The director said before the auction
that a no-sale would make him sad but
said “it’s all in the game” of moviemak
ing.
Entrants had to pay $375 to get
their film in the auction. Fifty films
were submitted, and a panel whittled
them down to 15, said Hal “Corky”
Kessler, a lawyer and partner in the
group that staged the event. Many of
the works were first time projects.
Eleven had been at various film festi
vals.
Kessler said representatives from
reputable companies - he wouldn’t say
which ones - had approached him after
the auction and told him to let them
know which films were still available.
He said representatives from Miramax,
USA Films and Tristar had attended.
“The very fact that we had bids out
there tells us this works,” Kessler said.
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