Contacting the owner of a film’s screening rights is a problem every film society runs into sooner or later. If no one holds the rights, or the rights holder can’t be found to give permission, you can’t screen the film \u2014 so tracking them down is worth doing properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The people who own screening rights are usually the Australian distributor or the producer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you’re willing to spend around $250 a year, an IMDbPro<\/a> subscription gives you access to the producer of a film and who distributes it in each country \u2014 IMDbPro offers a 30-day free trial if you want to test it first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Make contact directly \u2014 see our Australian Film Distributors<\/a> list for contact details. They’ll send you an approval to screen the film, and from there you can start publicising it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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