Replay the October 27, 2011, Twitter interview between @DocSoupMan Tom Roston and #tweetmydoc twitter documentary pitch winner @YourName_MyName (Osato Dixon).
TAGS: albino, marketing, social media, twitter, zimbabweTom RostonTom Roston is a guest columnist for POV's documentary blog. He comes to us as a ten-year veteran of Premiere magazine, where he was a Senior Editor, and where he wrote the column, Notes from the Dream Factory. Tom was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Brown University and started his career in journalism at The Nation and then Vanity Fair. Tom has also written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, GQ, New York, Elle and other publications.
Tom's favorite documentaries are:
1. Koyanisqaatsi - Godfrey Reggio
2. Hoop Dreams - Steve James
3. The Up series - Michael Apted
4. Crumb - Terry Zwigoff
5. Capturing the Friedmans - Andrew Jarecki
Really happy to see more filmmakers embracing online film distribution. It seems like the list of tools grows monthly. I recently found out about watchfilm.tv that has a similar model to Distrify and Dynamo. Here’s a 101 on online film distribution. http://bit.ly/pgSw00
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I think this is the way forward for inde film and a model for selling other forms of creative media. I recently released my 40 min documentary about Street Photographers on Distrify and it has sold well. There customer service has been fantastic.
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Independent journalist Tom Roston checks in and writes about the world of documentaries in his column, 
