Case Study · August – October 2023
Two weeks. Ten studios. One distribution offer secured, for an African impact film at the world's largest public film festival. Made possible by combining personal industry knowledge, filmmaker relationships, and AI-assisted research.
The Work
The Doka Film Team arrived at the engagement with their film screening at TIFF in two weeks and no distribution campaign underway. For an African impact feature film, finding the right buyers requires knowing which studios are genuinely invested, and how to reach them at the world's most competitive festival window.
Personal industry knowledge of the African film ecosystem was combined with filmmaker relationships and AI-assisted deep research, compressing what typically takes several days into three. Every outreach letter was then written specifically to that studio's acquisition history, positioning Doka's film as aligned with what each buyer was already looking for.
How It Unfolded
"I brought her back twice after that for additional work on DOKA and my own personal project, because when you find someone who changes how you think about a problem and then solves it, you just don't let them go."Nnegest Likké, Filmmaker
Impact