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Checking In!... with 2024's The Popcorn List's Films

A great new idea let's you know where it is headed.

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Barbara Twist and Lela Meadow-Conner @mamafilm
Feb 08, 2025
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You might recall that last year we revealed the Popcorn List, a great new initiative to solicit from festival programmers some of the best undistributed films; think BlackLst but for completed movies. You might have been wondering what became of the films that made the first edition; I know I was. The cinema gods were no doubt smiling down upon us, beca…

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Former @FilmFestivalAlliance, current @FutureFilmCoalition, always @TwistFilms. These days, I'm thinking about our marketing crisis, anti-trust remedies, and how to get kids into movie theaters.
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Lela connects stories to audiences, and storytellers to opportunities. She’s a curator, creative producer and distribution consultant, the CEO of mamafilm, President of Art House Convergence and co-founder of The Popcorn List and rePROFilm.
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