Retail Distribution for Your Film

With Film Distro your film can be made available to consumers on the following stores in the following territories:

iTunes: US and Canada
Netflix Watch Instantly: US and Canada
Amazon VOD: US only
Hulu: US only
Cable/Satellite/Telco VOD services: US only

Amazon VOD: Yes
iTunes: No
Hulu: No
Netflix Watch Instantly: No
Cable/Satellite/Telco VOD: No

If you are delivering just one standard definition (SD) film to iTunes, there is a one-time charge of $1,499, which covers all the encoding, chapter breaking, tagging, and general caretaking that we’ll do to usher your film to full iTunes compliance and placement in the iTunes store, Hulu, Amazon Video On Demand, Netflix and placement in a minimum of 80% of nationwide VOD households.

If you have multiple films, contact us for your discounted plan.

GENERAL

While there are some rare exceptions, your film must:

• Be no racier than an MPAA R rating (if you don’t have an actual rating, you know what an R means)
• Be longer than 60 minutes
• Be available on a high-resolution master (like DigiBeta) or as a Pro Res 422 HQ file (SD can be transferred via FTP).
• Have a trailer in the same aspect ratio as your master
• Have poster art available as a .jpeg or .tiff file without a credit block, URL, or pricing info on it
• Have some bragging rights (e.g. festival selection, awards, stars, name producers/directors, good reviews, timely subject matter)

Your film must NOT

• Be pornographic
• Be waiting to clear any licenses (music or any other)
• Be a home movie
• Be an instructional video

NETFLIX WATCH INSTANTLY

To receive an offer from Netflix for their Watch Instantly service, your film must already be available in Netflix’s database. That is, if you search for your title on www.netflix.com, it is either already available on DVD, or if not, it appears as available to “Save” for the future.

On average it takes about 90 days, if you have absolutely no QC issues. Most of this time occurs with the encoders, in the QC process. Once iTunes has your approved materials, the process moves very quickly. Please remember, Film Distro does not have control over when your film goes live — but this is an average.

We always discuss promotional strategies with the platform you are placed on. We push for prominent placement on the iTunes Independent Film and Documentaries homepages, and to tie-in with other iTunes properties (film and music) when relevant. We work with Hulu to help determine best placement. We and our VOD partners at Brainstorm media work with MSOs to pick favorable release dates and other opportunities. And of course we promote clients’ films through our social media networks and our mailing list.

Go Distro is pleased to offer your film exciting physical distribution options. Go Distro is constantly working hard to bring you new and innovative ways to get your DVDs out to the masses without forcing you to give up any of your rights. Our current partnerships include:

Film Baby

Film Baby is pleased to offer your film exciting physical distribution options. Film Baby is constantly working hard to bring you new and innovative ways to get your DVDs out to the masses without forcing you to give up any of your rights.

Super D

Super D is one of the country's largest one-stop and has the world's largest selection of music, movies and games. As the only worldwide wholesaler, they sell to thousands of independent retailers, major chains, online retailers, other wholesalers and specialty retailers.

What is a "one-stop" you might ask? It is a wholesaler that gets products from many different distributors, into one central ordering system for retail stores. Super D offers retail stores everything from the Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, and now, you. Retail stores order from Super D to save time and trouble over ordering from many different distributors.

NETFLIX

Netflix is the largest online DVD rental service, offering flat rate rental-by-mail and online streaming to customers in the United States. Established in 1997 it has amassed a collection of 100,000 titles and approximately 8.2 million subscribers. The company has more than 55 million discs and ships 1.9 million of them to customers each day, on average. (All films and all Submittals are Subject to approvals by the Netflix staff and the distribution company).