About
Founded in 2017, Aspect Ratio is a boutique agency building alliances between producers, specialty distributors and institutions.
Services
For Producers with Films in Development
- Aspect Ratio advises on best practices for contract negotiation, legal documentation and rights management.
- Aspect Ratio aligns funding materials with financing targets and creates a tailored distribution plan that can be included for funding and co-production applications.
- Aspect Ratio attaches select sponsors to films in development, building a targeted audience for your project through partners’ established networks.
- Aspect Ratio advises on visual approach, pacing and structure of concepts, to ensure final scripts align with market expectations and distribution targets.
For Producers with Finished Films
- Aspect Ratio represents finished films at major international markets year round, pitching films to distribution companies worldwide, and tailors distribution outreach according to pre-planned audience engagement goals.
- Aspect Ratio pitches finished films to film festival programmers at major international festivals and negotiates territory by territory premiere status, screening fees and talkbacks with talent.
- For producers interested in self-distributing,Aspect Ratio directly distributes to platforms in both the retail and educational market.
For Film Festivals, Cultural Organizations
- Aspect Ratio produces industry events for film festivals and cultural organizations, reaching out to industry members for involvement in panel discussions, one to one consultations, and market-driven seminars for festival audiences.
- Aspect Ratio curates a selection of films at various levels of development for select programming strands: works-in-progress, country spotlights, and first time directors.
Special Projects
TQFF
The Toronto Queer Film Festival is an activist-run event dedicated to increasing the visibility of films made by queer indigenous artists. Each year Aspect Ratio works with the TQFF programming team to identify radical new works by the international queer community, and offers one to one industry consultations to participating filmmakers interested in learning more about how to distribute their films worldwide.
Cinemarket
Developed with blockchain lawyer Florian Glatz and filmmaker Adrian Lugol at the 2017 Berlinale Talents market studio, Aspect Ratio co-founded Cinemarket as part of an initiative to give independent filmmakers free access to costly major film markets and greater insight into intellectual property management. After producers create profiles for films and identify what rights are available for licensing, registered distribution companies can request screeners, send an offer, and make payments to rights owners all within the Cinemarket environment.Cinemarket.io is designed to take the place of physical film markets and serve as a vital tool for artists actively interested in exploring the monetization of their work.
Venice Critic’s Week
Aspect Ratio served as the US scout for Giona Nazzarro’s Venice Critic’s Week, the section of the Venice Film Festival curated by the Italian Association of Film Critics. Aspect Ratio scouts for first time North American filmmakers with exciting, provocative works that could be introduced as World Premieres to Venetian audiences each fall.