Uncover the Mysterious Power of the Ladybug Effect with Greg Porper – SYS Podcast Episode 535 Exclusive!
Ashley
Gotcha. And who did you end up settling on for distribution?
Greg Porper
So we’re with a level 33 entertainment. There’s a lot of great companies we met with in the case. And first of all, I want to also promise by saying as this was all going on, I was getting to a point where I was thinking like, should I self-distribute? And I know that’s like, that’s, that in its own right is so much work. But even we’re working with a full distributor, a full-time distributor and level 33, so far my experience with them has been great. There’s still so much work I’m doing constantly regardless of the fact that I have a distributor because of course in my gospel, now that you bring on a distributor, the revenue gets cut, but then they also have the ability to get to a bigger reach, it helps legitimize it. So, there was that conversation first. So, once we then decided we’re going to go with a distributor, when we’re meeting with different companies, what I really liked about level 33 was they don’t take on as many films as some of these other movies with bigger libraries so that when they’re going to film markets, it’s maybe four or five movies that they’re pitching out, not hundreds. I was connecting directly with the CEO, Andreas, who, great guy, and as opposed to some of these other companies, I was speaking to someone who was like three or four levels down and there were times where I wanted to meet the CEO or the head of the company before signing with them and magically I can never actually meet with that CEO because they were in a meeting or even when I went in person to an office. And so I wanted to really get to meet like the face of the company that I’d be working with and then with level 33, I had that ability. And there’s very few, I don’t think I can go into too many specifics, but there was a minimum guarantee also, which helped, and then they also were open to a theatrical component. And I think those two elements helped just make their offer stand out from the rest.
