Distribution Advocates
Distribution Advocates, Karin Chien, Abby Sun, Amy Hobby, Kelly Thomas, Avril Speaks, Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Samantha CurleyA movement to reclaim the means of distribution for independent storytellers
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El cine no está en crisis. Es la industria.
Proyección al aire libre de Valentina o la serenidad, de Ángeles Cruz, durante su gira itinerante de 2025 organizada por OaxacaCine. Foto: Jalil Olmedo. Cortesía: OaxacaCine
The Crisis Isn’t Cinema. It’s the Industry.
Outdoor screening of Ángeles Cruz’s Valentina, or the Serenity during its 2025 traveling tour organized by OaxacaCine. Photo: Jalil Olmedo Courtesy: OaxacaCine
Taking Off: How we grew ideas from an in-person retreat, before our next one.
Collage of notes from Distribution Advocates 2022 retreat.
Authors
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Distribution Advocates works to collectively reclaim power for independent storytellers in the current systems of distribution and exhibition.
Karin Chien is a producer & distributor. Current roles include Art & Action, dGenerate Films, Distribution Advocates, and Nevada City Filmmaker Residency.
Film producer and Co-Founder of Distribution Advocates.
Kelly Thomas is a producer, writer and educator. Her documentary, Louder Than You Think, premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival where it won an Audience Award.
Producer/Director
Carlos A. Gutiérrez is co-founding director of Cinema Tropical, a New York-based non-profit organization that has become the leading promoter of Latin American cinema in the US.
Samantha Curley is an award-winning documentary film producer based in Los Angeles. She is the Co-Founder of Level Ground, which is both a 501(c)3 nonprofit artist collective and the production company behind UNION (2024) and Framing Agnes (2022).
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