Film Festival Flix: Moving Festivals Into the Virtual Space, Securely
Benjamin Oberman knew where film festivals were headed, even when the industry didn’t. An experienced distributor, producer, and festival director, Oberman repeatedly encountered the same shark in every indie sea: never enough time to see all the films during the run of a festival, rarely an opportunity to see them again after.
“I knew that a lot of these films were great — really great — but that the cost to promote them would never balance with their potential box office return, and they woul