Video and Film Distributors
Editor's Note: I've tried to make this a list of real distributors as opposed to resellers or catalog companies, but the line sometimes blurs. I've excluded some companies that in my experience are not reputable. I'd appreciate your feedback to help make this list useful to producers. -
Hal Landen
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411 Video Information PO Box 1223, Pebble Beach, CA 93953, Call (831) 656-0553
CONTACT Leslie McClure Marketing, consulting, and publicity for independent producers of special interest video. Over 15 years of experience. Product exposure through varied distribution channels, domestic and international.
Agency for Instructional Technology
Box A, Bloomington, IN 47402-0120 CONTACT Chuck Wilson 800.457.4509
AIT is a nonprofit education organization established in 1962. Currently, AIT offers 150 learning resource products, containing nearly 2,500 separate titles. AIT resources are used in six continents and reach nearly 34 million students in North America each year via electronic distribution and audiovisual use.
AIMS Multimedia
9710 DeSoto Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 818.773.4300
AIMS Multimedia is a worldwide distributor of multimedia to the institutional market. Market areas include education, health, business and industry, law enforcement agencies, and public libraries. AIMS is a division of Discovery Education.
Allied Video Corporation - educational
videos, software, and CD-ROMs in math, science, music, and sports.
Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc.
145 W.45th Street -Suite 1115, New York, NY 10036 800.526.4663
Ambrose Video Publishing distributes documentary, educational, science, social study, and public issues videos.
Amish Country Videos
- Akron, Ohio - An Amish Country Adventure, Amish Values & Virtues,
An Amish Barn Raising, A Train Ride thru Amish Country, Amanda's Amish
Kitchen
Appalshop Film & Video
306 Madison Street, Whitesburg, KY 41858 606.633.0108
A nonprofit media cooperative located in the coalfields of Southeastern Kentucky dedicated to the preservation of Appalachian lifestyles and culture.
Aquarius Health Care Videos,18 North Main Street, Sherborn, MA 01770 Phone 888-440-2963
Aquarius is looking for award-winning videos in the health and healing fields. Specific topics of interest include disabilities, mental health, humor, and stress reduction.
Arab Film DistributionArab feature films and documentaries. 4022 Stone Way N. Seattle, WA 98103 Phone 206.547.4687
Ark Media Group, Ltd. 425 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone 415.863.7200 CONTACT Allan Kessler
Ark Media Group is a distributor of visual music, nature, wellness videos, and CD-ROMs to the gift trade.
Art Metropole 788 King Street West, Toronto CANADA M5V IN6 Phone 416.703.4400 CONTACT dave dyment. Art Metropole publishes and retails artist's videos in VHS format to a home and library market.
Bay
Area Graffiti - graffiti videos.
Bennett Marine Video supplier of marine and outdoor instructional
videos for recreational enthusiasts featuring more than 1,000 programs on boating,
sailing, GPS, navigation, cruising and fishing.
Big World Media Videos and training tools cross-cultural, diversity and international business topics for businesses, universities and
schools.
Bullfrog Films - sales, rental,
public performance, televison, closed-circuit, duplication licenses available.
California Newsreeel Films and Videos for socail change including many African-American titles. Non-Profit organization, 500 Third Street #505,
San Francisco, CA 94107, Phone 415-284-7800, Fax 415-284-7801
Choices, Inc specialty distributor of quality documentaries, educational programming, and feature films. Choices, Inc., 3740 Overland Ave. Ste. F, Los Angeles CA 90034 Phone: (310) 839-1500, Fax: (310) 839-1511
Contemporary Arts Media Pty Ltd We supply to thousands of schools, universities and other educational and professional training institutions from all over the world in the following categories:Theater, Dance, Visula Arts, Media, Photography, Language and Literature, Commuication and Culture, Music, Healing Arts. Contemporary Arts Media,
PO Box 245, South Fremantle, Western Australia 6162
Children's Christian Videos - Collegeville, Pa - Guiding Light Video Markets Children's Christian Videos
Christy Lane Enterprises
- Palm Springs, CA
- Produce and Distribute Dance Instructional Videos
The Cinema Guild
New York, NY We are glad to consider film or video programs, of any type or length from a ten-minute animated or liveaction short, a half-hour educational film, a one-hour documentary, a feature-length narrative or documentary film, or a TV series.
Do It Yourself, Inc - produces
and sells how-to videos for home improvement, house building, wood working,
real estate, bicycling, crafts, and more.
Documentary Educational Resources Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse Street, Watertown, MA 02472. One of the oldest documentary distributors in the US. Over 700 titles, non-profit. They also offer low-cost workshops in documentary film and funding strategies for independent filmmakers.
Educational Special Interest Videos
- history, sports, safety, travel, and entertainment videos for schools,
libraries, and individuals.
Ergo Media Inc.
Jewish Video and Films. Over 300 titles including children's videos, documentaries, "how-to" videos, Israeli and Yiddish film classics, educational programs and music/art videos. All films are either in English or subtitled in English.
Ethnoscope Film & Video
- I'm looking for excellent"multicultural" videos on traditional music and culture - broadly defined! PO Box 92353
Rochester, NY 14692
Fanlight ProductionsHarriman, NY Distributes films and videos on social issues including health care, mental health, professional ethics, aging and gerontology, the workplace, gender and family issues.
Films Media Group Distributes educational video and multimedia programs for schools, colleges, libraries, the medical community, and other institutions. Owned by media giant PRIMEDIA. They also own the domain "films.com"
Guerilla Films, dictionary definition: "an irregular body of men acting independently". This best describes Guerilla Films except we are also women. Independent UK producer/distributor of indy features.
Illuminare Entertainment Inc
Illuminare is looking for music videos and short films.
Impact Video Distributors
Extreme Sports Videos
Instructional Video - distributes
special interest and "how-to" videos to public libraries. We
offer public performance rights for nearly 4,000 titles.
Janson Associates Television & Video
- documentaries, children's and special interest programs.
Kultur & White Star Video
- opera, classical, comedy, documentary, jazz, ballet, art and many more.
Landmark Media Inc.FALLS CHURCH, VA Wide Variety of Educational Titles
Latin American Video Archives
In their own words "As the leading educational video distributor of Latin American and Latino video,
our catalogue includes seminal works by award-winning producers that aptly represent the diversity
of Latin American and Latino culture."
Moving Images Distribution
- social issues, Canadian history, environment, native culture, fine arts.
National Film Network A new company formed by Du Art Film Labs, a long-time friend of indie docs and features, and the Rowan & Littlefield Publishing Group. Look for the filmmaker section of their web site.
NEST Family Entertainment - Duncanville, TX - NEST Entertainment. Christian animated videos.
New Day Films
- a cooperative of more than 50 filmmakers offering independent films and videos on social issues.
On With Learning - over 250 video training
courses on computer programs.
Penn State Media Sales - specializes in psychology, anthropology, and
education videos.
Quality Books Inc. (Not to be confused with another web site with nearly identical web address)
1003 W. Pines Road, Oregon, IL 61061-9680 Phone 815-732-4450 Contact Carolyn Dawson. They specialize in distributing NEW non-fiction books AND videos to libraries. They did a nice job distributing my book Marketing With Digital Video. Currently seeking videos on these topics: Kids, Spanish, and travel. At their web site is also an "Information For Publishers" which explains what they want in a book or
video.
Richter Productions
- 330 West 42nd Street, New York NY 10036
Richter Productions is a small independent distributor of documentaries
encompassing the work of Robert Richter and others. Included are Academy
Award nominated documentaries, others cited by the Academy as among the
"best documentaries" of the year of their release, duPont Columbia
Broadcast Journalism Award winning documentaries
Salt City Home Video
- low-budget horror movies and special interest videos.
Schoolhouse Videos &
CDs - Wholesome, educational videos and CDs for learning on hundreds
of subjects.
Solid Entertainment - They started with eight natural history documentaries produced
for The Discovery Channel. Now they include all genres of documentaries: current affairs,
historical, military, social, human adventure, science,
technology, and wildlife. They specialize is selling documentaries to the worlwide broadcast markets.
Chip Taylor Communications
Derry, NH Wide variety of educational titles.
THA Media Video Distributors - full-service
video distributor serving the television, educational and home video markets.
ThinkFilm Distributors represents specialized cinema including theatrical documentaries as well as fictional feature films. THINKFilm won its first Best Documentary Academy Award in 2004 with "Born Into Brothels" and also received nominations for "The Story of the Weeping Camel" and "Spellbound." Also distributes "Murderball"
TMW Media Group Educational programs for schools. 2321 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Suite 101
Venice, CA, 90291, 310 577 8581
United Learning (formerly AGC Educational Media) 1560 Sherman Avenue, Suite 100, Evanston, IL 60201 Phone Susan Levenhagen, Director of Product Development 800.323.9084 Featuring a collection of over 2,000 titles for the K-12 curriculum and health education areas. They are an exclusive distributor, employ twenty full-time sales representatives, and have an in-house marketing team.
Unique Books Contact: Richard Capps, Product Mgr. 4230 Grove Ave, Gurneey, IL 60031, Phone 708-623-9171. They specialize in distributing non-fiction books AND videos to libraries. They did a nice job with my book Marketing With Digial Video.
Vas Entertainment Vas Entertainment,211 Tank Farm Road, San Luis Obispo ., CA 93401. Action Sports Video skateboarding to skiing, baseball to bicycling, yoga to moto, climbing, paddle, fitness.
Victorian Video Productions.
Crafts videos.
The Video Project
We are the exclusive or primary distributor for most of the programs in our collection, as well as a major distributor for the productions of national environmental organization such as the National Wildlife Federation, Marine Mammal Fund, League of Women Voters, Union of Concerned Scientist and Zero Population Growth, among others.
Whitehorse Press
More than 1,500 motorcycling books, videos, maps,
t-shirts, posters, tools & accessories.
P.O. Box 60, North Conway, NH
03860-0060
Women Make Movies
nation's largest distributor of films and videotapes by and about
women. The site contains their catalogue of almost 500 films and a comprehensive listing of links on women and film and resources for women filmmakers.
The Really Big Time Distributors
(Even if you're not ready for the big time, there's some great eye-candy here.)
Disney Studios, Hollywood
MGM/UA, MGM / United Artists
Miramax, Hollywood
NBC Universal Hollywood
New Line, Major Hollywood distributor
Paramount, Hollywood
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., including CNN interactive
Twentieth Century Fox, We're looking for your outrageous home videos to air on our specials! Hollywood
Universal Pictures, Hollywood
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