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My Top Ten Internet Marketing Tips

I’m not a PR person and I’m not a marketing expert but I’ve learnt a few things about internet marketing through the making and distributing of our own films.

And I  thought I would share what I’ve learnt. Pretty much all of these tips and tricks are FREE and they’re all very easy to do yourself.

I’m sure I’m teaching a grandmother to suck eggs and you might know this stuff already, but if you gleam one thing from this list, then it’s worthwhile!

I’ve learnt all this the hard way, from setting up and managing websites, blogs, fanpages, groups and emails. Between myself and my Alto Films partner Alex Wakeford, we have created and actively manage something crazy like:

5 websites (our company website ALTO FILMS, websites for our birth documentaries DOULA!, REAL BIRTH STORIES, a website for our psychological thriller feature film CREDO and another for our regular film training workshops BRIGHTON FILM WORKSHOPS)

3 Facebook Fan Pages: DOULA!, REAL BIRTH STORIES and have just set up 60 SECOND DOULAS

1 Facebook Group: BRIGHTON FILM-MAKERS

2 blogs: DOULA! & BRIGHTON FILM WORKSHOPS

1 Twitter: DOULAFILM

7 Email addresses (for Alto Films & personal email) – you can always contact us at info@altofilms.com

So before I give my top 10 tips – here’s a reminder that we’re doing a special Christmas offer:

DOULA! DVD on sale now for just £9.99 or $14.99!!! - BUY NOW

So here they are -  my top ten tips for Internet Marketing!

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Use Facebook / Myspace / Other Social Networking (tips 1-5)

You may hate Facebook or other social networking sites but it is a really good way to connect with people. And its free. So here are my five top tips:

No 1. – create a fan page for your business (go to the left hand side of your  Facebook home page, click on Adverts and Pages, click on Pages and make sure you set it up for a business – I can go more into this if anyone is interested)

2. – personalise your fanpage using special graphics and create a WELCOME LANDING PAGE (the place people go to when they first visit your fanpage (for examples, have a look at our DOULA! film fan page created through www.fanpageengine.com)

3. – create a facebook username for your fanpage (if you have over 100 members) so its easy for new people to find you -  for example, www.facebook.com/doulafilm – To create your own username, go to www.facebook.com/username and follow the instructions

4. – if you are doing a special event, screening or something special, create an EVENT on Facebook. You can also create Facebook ads – targeting a certain audience, this costs money but it can deliver results if you make your adverts very regional and specific.

5. – post regular messages, share things, write on other people’s walls, link to videos and generally be an active Facebook participant – the more you use Facebook, the more people hear about you and connect to you and it’s really lovely making lots of virtual new friends!!

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6. Create a Website with a blog

- just like this one! That way you can keep people up to date with what you’re up to! We use www.wordpress.com because it’s simple to use, free and you can update the website yourself without the need for a website designer. Here’s a frame-grab image from our website blog.

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7. Take the plunge and Twitter.

Personally, I’m not a huge fan of Twitter as I find it a little unsatisfying, but saying that, it can be quite effective if you build up a large audience. It’s very simple to use, free and can be very effective. Just open an account on www.twitter.com and start following people and then people start following you and before long, you have a bit of a community….

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8. Create a mailing list of email addresses.

Collect email addresses when people email you and put the emails in a database. Then once in a while, send out an email update or  just a simple newsletter format to keep people in the loop as to what’s happening with your business. But make sure people subscribe else your emails will be spam.

And always add links to your website / facebook fanpages at the end of all your emails to remind people where to find your sites.

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9. Use video if you can.

Video is a powerful medium and has the potential to go viral – which means you’ll get far more visitors and hits.

I’ve just started using my webcam to record personal messages but also, we’ve released 60 Second Doulas and we’re about to release a new video trailer for our next project. As an example of how successful video can be, our DOULA! film trailer has had nearly 90,000 views on Youtube since we launched it 6 months ago.

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10. Always use keywords and tags.

The key to internet marketing is to be high up in search engine listings. So a couple of tricks are tag everything and use keywords whenever you can – use the terms people will might put into a search engine like Google if they are trying to find you. And also use those keywords within your site, ideally within the title or within the first page.  And also link to other sites and encourage other sites to link to you.

There is a real art to search engine optimisation, but basically the more times you use key phrases and the more links you have to prominent websites (and the more people that link to your site), the higher up in the search engine listings your website will appear.  The more specific you are the better.

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Marketing can be fun. Coming up with new ideas to get the word out there is exciting. If you feel passionate about something then there’s nothing better than coming up with a fun idea to harness the power of the internet to tell other people what you’re doing or to find other people who share your passion. So it could be a competition or a link sharing idea on forums or whatever you like!

And if you have other marketing ideas, I would love to hear them!!!

To contact me, email info@altofilms.com

Toni

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Toni Harman, Producer, DOULA! THE ULTIMATE BIRTH COMPANION

Visit our website: http://doulafilm.com

Join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/doulafilm

Email me: info@altofilms.com

Posted by  |  December 13, 2010 | Categories: doula film | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

Christmas Bonus!

Doula DVDUp until now, Alex and I (the film-makers behind the DOULA! film) have bankrolled the DOULA! film. We had no outside funding. We paid for everything ourselves from hiring the cameras to editing then all the manufacture of the DVDs.

Then we had to pay for the creation of the DVD in two formats – PAL for UK, Europe and Australia and NTSC format for the North American market. We spent just about every penny we had to make the film as we 100% believed in the project. But to be honest, it’s been a struggle financially speaking.

It was a risk making the DOULA! film, as we had no guarantee that we would sell enough DVD copies to break even let alone go into profit. But we felt that it was a risk worth taking. For us, it wasn’t about the money, it was about making a film that would make a difference.

The reason I’m telling you this is that we have some exciting news.

Exactly six months after we launched the film, we’ve finally gone into profit for the NTSC version. Hip hip hooray! (We’re still trying to recoup our costs for the UK / Europe / Australian PAL version.)

So to celebrate our North American success, we’re offering a massive Christmas bonus!

Doula DVD special Christmas offer

For the festive period only, we’re offering the DOULA! DVD for half-price if you live in the US, Canada, Japan and other NTSC countries. So for a limited time only, the DVD will cost just $14.99 (USD)! So an amazing 50% off.

But we’re not forgetting people who live in the UK, Europe, Australia or New Zealand or other PAL countries. Over the festive period, we’re offering the DVD at just £9.99 – that’s 33% off!

These offers are only available from the http://doulafilm.com website. Click HERE to buy the DVD now!

Any profits from now on will be put into making our next film project, a feature-length documentary about the problems with birth today – to raise awareness and to make birth better and safer for every single woman.

So hope you take advantage of our Christmas bonus (the DVD will make a great Christmas present!). And what would be amazing is if you could tell other people about this offer!

Most importantly, thank you so much for supporting the DOULA! film. We couldn’t have done it without yours and the whole of the birth community’s support.

Very best seasons wishes and lots of ho ho ho’s,

Toni Harman, Producer, DOULA! THE ULTIMATE BIRTH COMPANION

 

To contact us, email info@altofilms.com or leave a message on our Facebook fan page:

http://www.facebook.com/doulafilm

Posted by  |  December 8, 2010 | Categories: doula film | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

Raising Money

My biggest flaw (but possibly my biggest strength) is my impatience. I want things to happen now. Right now. This very second.

I hate reading manuals as I get frustrated and try to rush through to the page where it says “How To Turn On” .

About a month ago I was asked to sit on a panel talking about how to get a documentary film funded.

The lovely documentary film-maker I was sitting next to was talking about how it’s taken her two years to finally get the first little bit of funding for her next documentary film (about bears) and she’s hoping to shoot her project at the end of next year or even the year after. That means she’ll begin filming three or four years after she had her orginal idea to make the film.

I’m the opposite. I can’t wait to get going. I use the energy of my own impatience to drive the project forward. For me,  a project starts with an idea then I develop the idea and come up with a plan, put together a budget, schedule and then I start filming.

Quite honestly, it might be that I haven’t raised all the money I need when I start filming – but it’s this blind faith and courage of conviction that I’ll be able to raise the money somehow because I believe in the project so much.

That’s how I feel about my next project (a global feature-length documentary on the problems with birth today). I’ve been applying to all the various national and international documentary film funds where you wait 4 -6 months for an answer and then you are one of literally thousands of applicants with a very small chance of success (the film fund I applied for yesterday had 1,600 fund applications fighting for less than 10 fund awards.)

I can’t wait that long. In 6 months time, I want to be half-way through shooting, perhaps filming a wonderful home birth in Australia, or filming at Ina May Gaskin’s The Farm in Tennessee or wherever my filming journey takes me!

Sure, if I hear in 6 months that the film has been allocated some funds then this would really help fund the next stage of the film (editing & finalising the film and securing distribution).

The traditional film-making manual is to wait until you are fully financed before you start shooting. But for me life is too short to sit back and wait. You’ve got to take the plunge, you’ve got to take risks. If it’s something you truly honestly believe in then you have to find a way to raise the money yourself and use your own initiative.

So that’s what I am going to do. I will raise the money I need to make this next documentary film because I have to. I believe in this so much that I need to make it happen so I will make it happen (is it power of positive thinking or just my refusal to take no for an answer!!!)

Very soon we’re going to be launching the campaign fund-raising website and it would be fantastic if you could help me raise the money I need to get this film going – because together we can help change the world and make birth better.

Thanks for listening!

If you want to contact me, then email me at info@altofilms.com

Toni Harman, Producer, Alto Films

 

 

 

Posted by  |  December 1, 2010 | Categories: doula film | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

Countdown to Launch

Been a busy couple of weeks here at DOULA! film towers.

We’re getting ready to launch our next (as yet untitled) project, a worldwide feature-length documentary looking at the problems with birth today (too many over-medicalised births, too many inductions, too many caesareans, too few midwives, too few doulas, too little ante-natal education, too many women losing faith in their bodies) and also and most importantly, what the possible solutions might be to make birth better!

We want this film to help change the world – really, that’s what we are aiming to do.

We don’t want to make the film for just the birth community, we want to make the film appeal to a mainstream audience. Our plan is to use shock tactics and humour and outrageousness – so that we get people talking about the issues, so that we stimulate some lively debate, so that Governments and Health Authorities and the medical profession and ordinary people take notice – because we honestly do really want to help change the world!!

So we’ve been busy:

- editing the interviews we shot at the Midwifery Today conference in Strasbourg in September into a short hard-hitting world-changing trailer featuring Ina May Gaskin, Michel Odent, Elizabeth Davis, Debra-Pascali-Bonaro etc

- designing graphics for the website and all marketing materials

- coming up with hundreds of possible titles then rejecting 99.9% of them

- having lots of (admittedly some wine-fuelled) meetings about our master-plan, marketing strategies, scheduling, financing

- writing documentary synopses / outlines / treatments / funding proposals

- number crunching budgets and cashflow forecasts (so they’re market-ready to approach financiers / broadcasters / distributors etc)

- researching and reading and watching everything birth related!

Our plan is to launch the website in a couple of weeks, exact domain name and launch date TBC (I’ll announce as soon as I can!)

The website will be the cornerstone to the campaign – so if you want to help, please tell everyone to go to the website once it’s launched!

But before then, the countdown has begun. Here at DOULA! Film HQ, the pressure is on to get it all ready in time. Tick tock tick tock…..

Toni

To contact us, please email info@altofilms.com

Or join our Facebook fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/doulafilm

 

 

Posted by  |  November 22, 2010 | Categories: doula film | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

Yesterday I Made A Mistake

Yesterday, I hosted a screening of REAL BIRTH STORIES and DOULA! at the University of York’s lovely  Midwifery Department (fantastic facilities and brilliant staff!) and I had a bit of a reality check.

The actual screening went well and the audience seemed to really enjoy watching the films.

But then in the Q&A afterwards, I was asked about my next project, a feature-length cinematic documentary which is a global look at the rise of non-natural births in the Western world. The film will look at the record levels of caesareans, the high maternal and neonatal death rates with the underlying theme that  if we don’t change, according to Michel Odent, “the future of humanity is at stake”.

I got on a little bit of a soap-box and said that with this next film, “I wanted to change the world”.

Quite rightly, I was fired with some tough questions from the audience mainly comprised of midwives / student midwives / midwifery lecturers  and some doulas. Here’s a summary of the Q&A exchange:

Audience: How exactly are you going to change the world?

Toni: I want to make a feature length documentary that plays in cinemas right around the world about the problems with birth in the Western world with record induction and caesarean rates, high maternal and neonatal mortality rates and that most women now fear giving birth. The film will also offer possible global solutions to these problems. My goal would be to make a film that raises birth and breastfeeding issues in the public consiousness  just like Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth did for climate change.

Audience: What exactly do you want to achieve?

Toni: I want to see more midwives, more one-to-one midwifery care, more birth centres, more doulas, better antenatal education, a reduction in global induction and caesarean rates and most importantly, to help women regain faith in their own bodies’ ability to give birth naturally.

Audience: But where’s the money going to come from for the additional maternity services you want? (This question referred particularly to the UK’s NHS – National Health Service – system)

Toni: Part of the film’s strategy is to persuade the Government to award more resources to maternity services…(In hindsight, what I could maybe have said is that by reducing the number of caesareans, this will reduce costs  (our local hospital is paid £2500 for each caesarean they perform by the hospital funding body, £3,500 for a caesarean with complications – so reduce caesareans = reduce costs = more money in other areas!)

There were a few more questions about how it would be difficult to change people’s ingrained attitudes but you get the general picture. To be fair, although I was challenged on my plans, it was good to be put through my paces on something that I really care about.

But last night on the 7 hour train journey home, I realised I had made a mistake.

To avoid putting people’s backs up, I should have been a bit more humble.  What I should have said was that I wanted to help change the world. I should have acknowledged that there are lots of other people and organisations that have been trying for years to make their voices heard, but it’s proving really hard to make the mainstream population listen.

Most birth experts agree that the  subject needs to be higher up in the public consciousness, so that everyone talks about it – so that it’s a global conversation for the conservation of natural birth!

I know I’m just one tiny voice and it takes millions of voices to make change happen.

The only difference with me is that I’m a film-maker. And this is my passion project.

I have the tools  to make a film that features the likes of Michel Odent, Ina May Gaskin, Elizabeth Davis, Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Jan Tritten plus leading midwives, doulas, obstetricans, parents and other birth experts from all corners of the planet.

All of us,  wherever we are in the world, if we really want to make change happen, we all have to create and contribute to a global debate, that isn’t just about a single country, or county, or primary health care trust or even about individual care, it’s about our survival as a human race.

But yesterday really brought home to me that I’ve set myself a really difficult challenge. There’s going to be many obstacles in my way and many people that I have to win over , but I also know the hardest things in life to achieve are the things that are most worth fighting for.

But I’m committed to making this film. Now I just have to raise the money to make it!

Next month I’m going to be launching the film’s campaigning / fundraising website, the first step to helping change the world – so I’ll be announcing details about how you can sign up and how to join the campaign very soon.

Then together, all of us, can help change the world!

If anyone has any comments or thoughts or wants to tell me what else I can do to help change the world- please email me at info@altofilms.com

Or post a message on the DOULA! film’s facebook fan page wall.

Thank you. xx

Toni Harman, DOULA! film-maker

Posted by  |  November 11, 2010 | Categories: doula film | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments »

Together we can change the world!

The DOULA! film UK tour has begun!

After a really good screening of the DOULA! film and REAL BIRTH STORIES in Brighton on Tuesday night, I have just returned from a brilliant screening last night at the Midwifery School at the University of the West of England in Bristol.

The audience was made up of midwifery Lecturers (many of whom made delicious cakes sold to raise money for the White Ribbon Alliance charity), midwifery students, local doulas and members of the public.

Here’s a photo – that’s me the tiny figure in the bottom left introducing the film – on the right is Sheena Payne, Senior Lecturer in Midwifery who came into her own as “Ricki Lake” style audience-facilitator!

DOULA! film screening in Bristol

Then in the lively Q&A afterwards, we had a panel of myself, two wonderful local doulas and two amazing midwives – with questions on the relationship between doulas and midwives, doula and midwife training, if doulas can attend births without midwives, how long doulas stay at births, about postnatal doulas and other questions about why I made the film and how I really want to change the world with my next project, a feature-length documentary about the problems with birth  in the Western world featuring Ina May Gaskin, Michel Odent, Elizabeth Davis, Debra Pascali- Bonaro etc.

Wow. The whole night was fantastic. Really positive, energising and exhilerating. Amazing feedback. I had a real feeling that everyone wants the same thing, that we all want to make birth better!

Next week on the 10th November I’m off to York University for a screening at their Midwifery school which I’m really excited about (public tickets are still available if anyone wants to come – CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS!) – and I’m sure the feeling will be the same.

Then the plan is to have more screenings around the UK in January -  then to head to the US, Canada, Australia later in the Spring for screenings and for filming our next film! (please email me at info@altofilms.com if you think you know where I should hold a screening!)

So yes, if these screenings are anything to go by, with doulas and midwives working side by side to support women, step by step, film by film, screening by screening,  I know deep in my heart that together we really can change the world. And that will be amazing.

Toni Harman, Producer, DOULA! THE ULTIMATE BIRTH COMPANION

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Any comments, suggestions, feedback, please email me: info@altofilms.com

Visit the website: http://www.doulafilm.com

Become a fan: http://www.facebook.com/doulafilm

Help me change the world: new website and campaign coming soon!!!! – or email info@altofilms.com

Posted by  |  November 4, 2010 | Categories: doula film | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

DOULA! Film UK Tour – Starts this week!

For more info about the Doula! Film Tour, visit

http://doulafilm.com/doula-film-soon-to-be-launched/doulatour/

Or email: info@altofilms.com

Or post a message on the Doula! Film Fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/doulafilm


Posted by  |  October 30, 2010 | Categories: doula film | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

Who likes the DOULA! film?

Since we launched the DOULA! documentary film in June this year, we’ve been lucky enough to have made sales and had screenings in lots of different countries; UK, USA, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Japan to name a few.

We know we’ve made sales to these countries because when orders come through the www.doulafilm.com website, it’s actually us here at DOULA! film towers (myself and my partner Alex Wakeford) that fulfills the orders, seals the DVDs in the envelopes and puts them in the post.

But up until now, I haven’t really known who likes our film, where they are, how old they are and even what gender they are.

And then I found the “insight” statistics on our Facebook fan page and I thought I would share them. I think they’re really interesting in terms of the geographic and demographic spread and also, I thought that maybe you can find yourself in the statistcs!

So here is a description of our nearly 1600 fans and I sincerely thank every single one of you for liking our film.

If you want to contact me, either post a message on the wall of our Facebook fan page or email info@altofilms.com

Gender and age
Female93% 0.38% 6.5% 41% 30% 10% 4.3%
13-17 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55+
Male4.1% 0.31% 0.88% 1.8% 0.75% 0.38%
  • Countries
    883 United States
    268 United Kingdom
    113 Canada
    103 Australia
    21 Argentina
    17 Germany
    17 Spain
    17 Italy
    11 Switzerland
    9 France
    7 United Arab Emirates
    7 Austria
    7 Bulgaria
    7 Mexico
    6 Israel
    6 Chile
    6 South Africa
    6 Netherlands
    5 Indonesia
    5 India
    MoreLess
  • Cities
    40 London
    39 Sydney
    29 Denver
    28 Brighton
    27 Manchester
    22 Phoenix
    21 Seattle
    19 New York
    17 Los Angeles
    16 Melbourne
    15 Brentford
    15 Milton Keynes
    14 Livingston
    14 Atlanta
    14 Buenos Aires
    13 Madrid
    13 Tampa
    12 Brisbane
    11 Birmingham
    MoreLess
  • Language
    1,173 English (US)
    277 English (UK)
    42 Spanish
    29 German
    16 Italian
    11 French (France)
    8 Bulgarian
    6 Spanish (Spain)
    4 Catalan
    4 Indonesian
    4 Portuguese (Brazil)
    3 French (Canada)
    3 Hebrew
    2 Czech
    2 Hungarian
    2 Icelandic
    2 Portuguese (Portugal)
    1 Finnish
    1 Norwegian (bokmal)
    MoreLess

Posted by  |  October 27, 2010 | Categories: doula film | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Doulas And Midwives

I’m as proud as punch that our film “A Gentle Birth” won this year’s Midwifery Today Short Video Award.

The film is an edited 8 minute extract from the DOULA! film and shows a beautiful, really positive home waterbirth where the mother is supported by a doula and two lovely midwives. The film shows just how wonderful, emotional and powerful birth can be! **

This week also saw the DOULA! film receiving a generally positive review from the UK’s Royal College of Midwives “Midwives” magazine – below is a quote (CLICK HERE for the full review)

“The doulas were good and definitely fulfilled a need. The first birth (a home waterbirth) was lovely and I would consider showing it as an educational piece to women and their partners.  The calm reassurance being given by the doulas and the practical support, which freed up the partners to be more physically and emotionally involved, was wonderful. The support being provided postnatally was fantastic and it was good to hear the voices of the couples who employed the doulas about how they felt about the support they received and showed the service in a positive light.”

What is fantastic is that these two esteemed midwifery journals, “Midwifery Today” and the RCM’s “Midwives”, have demonstrated they recognise the value of doulas working alongside midwives to support the parents to achieve the best possible birth. And that’s a huge result, isn’t it??

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**Just so you know, we’ve now made the award-winning (!!) 8 min short film “A Gentle Birth” private on Youtube out of respect for the parents wishes who, although very proud of the film, didn’t want their birth readily available on the internet after the Midwifery Today Awards were announced. I’m currently looking into other possibilities for distributing the film to those that are interested. Will keep you posted.

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A reminder that for people in the UK, we are kicking off our DOULA! FILM UK TOUR with three screenings of the DOULA! film and our other birth film REAL BIRTH STORIES.

We want to do lots more screenings up and down the country so it would be brilliant if you could help make these screenings a success by telling anyone you think might interested about the screenings!

Tickets cost £7.00 with a 20% earlybird discount if tickets are booked before 19/10/2010.

For more info about the DOULA! film UK tour, CLICK HERE.

Posted by  |  October 15, 2010 | Categories: doula film | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Update On Latest DOULA! Film News

Lots has happened since we launched the DOULA! film in June and I thought I’d post an update with all our news.

1. Many thanks to our 1500 Facebook fans!

Here at DOULA! film towers (that’s myself and my Alto Films partner Alex Wakeford), we are hugely grateful, honoured and pleased that we’re building a really fantastic supportive community on Facebook. So please keep sharing and please tell us what you like (and what you don’t like), so we can continue to grow and develop as a fully inclusive fun informative interactive community based fan page!

 

2. The DOULA! film launch has gone global!

The DOULA! film has been sold, seen and screened around the world including the UK, France, Germany, Norway, Holland, Spain, USA, Canada, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Wow. So excited, grateful and honoured that so many people have taken the DOULA! film into their hearts.

DOULA! DVD

3. AWARD WINNERS!!!

Our film “A Gentle Birth”, which featured an edited extract from the DOULA! film has just won the Midwifery Today short video competition! Ooooooh!!!

 

4. In the UK – the DOULA! film is going on tour!

We’re having a series of screenings around the UK featuring a Q&A with the director and local parents, doulas & midwives. Tickets are priced £7.00 and are on sale now (cut and paste these links)! Confirmed dates are as follows with more dates to be announced soon.

DOULA! Film Tour

BRIGHTON – Tues 2nd Nov 6pm http://www.eventelephant.com/doulafilmuktourbrighton

BRISTOL – Wed 3rd Nov – 6pm http://www.eventelephant.com/doulafilmuktourbristol

YORK -Wed 10th Nov – 1.30pm http://www.eventelephant.com/doulafilmyork

 

5. USA & CANADA DOULA! film tour in the Spring 2011!

We’re planning to do a series of screenings in the US and Canada early next year, combining this with doing some filming for our next documentary – if you would like us to do a screening in your town, let us know!

 

5. 60 SECOND DOULAS:

If you haven’t seen these, we’re releasing a series of short mini-clips where 3 doulas have just 60 seconds to answer one of the 100 most frequently asked questions about birth. The idea is to create a fun, informative series of clips, ok, that do promote the Doula! film, but that can be enjoyed by all. Mostly, the response to these has been fantastic so thank you for watching and sharing. And continue to watch out for them!

60 Second Doulas

6. OUR NEXT FILM!

As you may know, we’ve just returned from the Midwifery Today conference in Strasbourg where we filmed some amazing interviews with our all-time birth heroes for our next project, a global documentary about birth. We were lucky enough to interview Ina May Gaskin, Michel Odent, Elizabeth Davis, Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Eneyda Spradlin-Ramos, Carol Gautschi and the mother of Midwifery Today, Jan Tritten. We’re developing the documentary right now and raising funds – but we’re hoping to post some snippets over the next few weeks as the project comes together. So watch this space!

 

If you have any comments or feedback or just want to get in touch, either post something on the Facebook fan page wall on http://www.facebook.com/doulafilm or email us at info@altofilms.com

 

Thanks again for your support and warmest wishes,

 

Toni

 

Toni Harman, Director & Producer, Alto Films

Visit our website: http://doulafilm.com

Become a fan: http://www.facebook.com/doulafilm

Follow us on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/doulafilm

Posted by  |  October 11, 2010 | Categories: doula film | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

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