Florida Media Market

By Mallory Potosky
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/florida_media_market/
"Our aim is to eliminate the 'starving artist' mentality and emphasize the business aspect of moviemaking," explains Florida Media Market founder Maritza Guimet. Based in Southern Florida, the Florida Media Market is a non-profit organization meant to connect the independent film community with international financiers, distributors and other members of the business half of the moviemaking process. As a moviemaker herself, Guimet had often undergone the arduous process of appealing to outsiders for funding and attending international markets to do so. Finding a great many people interested in the Sunshine State's moviemaking community--particularly the growing Latino contingent--she brought together the Florida Media Market and it's annual Global Film and Media Market.