MARKETS:
Although we try to release films as much as we can via what we call the ‘launch-pad festivals’ such as Sundance, IDFA, Berlin and Toronto, our main release push takes place 2 times a year around the big TV markets, which most of our clients attend.


• Each April: MIP TV in Cannes (includes the very well attended documentary video library Mipdoc)

• Each October: MIP COM in Cannes.

These are the hardcore TV markets for all broadcast programming genres. The creative documentary is only a very small part of these events, but all the buyers are there and the market gives us the opportunity of quality time with them, which is hard to obtain during the flurry of film festivals. Aside from these hard markets there are 3 softer markets for the creative documentary. They are smaller and therefore easier to work. These markets have video libraries, where our new releases can be viewed.

• In April/May, Hot Docs in Toronto
• In June, Sunny Side of the Doc in La Rochelle
• In November, IDFA in Amsterdam

For films that have a theatrical potential we may consider organizing Market screenings in on the big screen:

• In February in Berlin during the film festival
• In May in Cannes during the film festival

We place our films in video libraries so the buyers can watch them:

• In April, MIP Doc in Cannes
• In June, Sunny Side in La Rochelle
• In November, Docs for Sale at IDFA in Amsterdam

We also make available our new releases in the video libraries of  Thessaloniki, Sheffield, Nyon and Leipzig.

OFFICE MEETINGS
In between these periods we are following up by phone, e-mail, and in personal meetings to be sure that all our clients have paid attention to our films and actually seen all of them.  It is our intention in the years to come to spend more time on personal visits to the buyers we work with in the cities where their offices are. Our New York office is in very regular touch with the American buyers. We find the personal approach and one to one meetings result in better sales.

FESTIVALS:
We believe that festivals are important tools to create interest from other festival programmers and theatrical distributors and video distributors as well as TV buyers and are also crucial for gaining prestige, reviews, buzz, and contact with audiences and other filmmakers. The higher a profile a film can obtain, and the more good press it gets, and the more awards it garners, the better the chances are that it will be shown at many other festivals and have higher sales.

Films Transit International creates for the filmmakers we work with a yearly INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ROADMAP, outlining the important festivals all our films should be entered in and we get actively involved in the placement of our films at the LAUNCHPAD festivals. (World premiere, International premiere, European premiere, North-American, US premiere). Films Transit films have won awards at all the prestigious festivals.

We attend: SUNDANCE, BERLIN, AIDC Australia, SXSW, THESSALONIKI, HOTDOCS, TRIBECA, SUNNY SIDE OF THE DOC, TORONTO INTERNATIONAL, IFP NY, SHEFFIELD, IDFA-AMSTERDAM, and many more.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:
We are invited around the world to moderate and participate in panels (for example IDFA, Sundance, SXSW, Hot Docs, Sunny Side, AIDC); moderate pitching forums (for example IDFA, Hot Docs, Britdoc); Give Workshops; (Pitching Workshops, Who is Whoís etc.) Tutorshipís (Sundance Institute, Discovery Campus, Vertical Strategies, Eurodoc).