Looky Looky Pictures

10/10/2024

🎉 EXCITING NEWS 🎥✨ Calling all small documentary film teams!

📅 The Guided Campaign Accelerator scholarship is open for applications until October 17th with limited scholarship opportunities available!!

🚀 This 6-month program will help you ignite your film’s impact campaign and reach your audience with ease and joy 😊

⏰ Learn more and apply here now: https://lookylookypictures.lpages.co/guided-campaign/ -started

✨Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity! Apply now!

🦋 Please tag/share with a filmmaker friend who may find this helpful!

03/10/2024

🚀 Attention small doc teams! 📽️ Join us for a *FREE live webinar info session* about the Guided Campaign Accelerator** program on ***OCTOBER 8***!

(🙃We had one this week, but it didn’t record so we’re doing it again! This is your chance to join live if you missed the first one!)

🎬 If you’re looking to move forward with your film’s impact with clarity, ease, and joy, then this session is designed to help you succeed!

🗓️ Date: Tuesday **October 8th**
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM Eastern

✅ Learn how to craft your impact campaign
✅ Explore real-world success stories
✅ Get your questions answered LIVE!

➡️ Don’t miss this opportunity to take your doc to the next level! Link in bio to register. 🎥✨

👋🏽 Please help us spread the word about this helpful resource—share this with a filmmaker friend who may find it helpful! 🫶🏼 Thank you!!🙏🏽

30/09/2024

🚀 Attention small doc teams! 📽️ Join us for a *FREE live webinar info session* about the Guided Campaign Accelerator** program! 🎬 If you’re looking to move forward with your film’s impact with clarity, ease, and joy, then this session is designed to help you succeed!

🗓️ Date: Tuesday October 1st
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM Eastern

✅ Learn how to craft your impact campaign
✅ Explore real-world success stories
✅ Get your questions answered LIVE!

➡️ Don’t miss this opportunity to take your doc to the next level! Link in bio to register. 🎥✨

30/09/2024

🙌🏽 Get the *NEW* Impact Filmmaker Show Episodes!

🎥 Q&A with Filmmakers: Behind the Scenes of Successful Impact Campaigns

A special 2-part episode!

✨ You’ll learn from:

🥳Francisco Alcala, Producer and Second Camera

🥳 Emily Branham, BEING BEBE, Director and Producer

🥳Lance Kramer, THE FIRST STEP, Producer

🥳 Mae Thornton Mehra, BEING MICHELLE, Producer

➡️ Go to LookyLookyPictures.com/Show ⬅️

11/09/2024

🎉 EXCITING NEWS! Guided Campaign is now open, our premium 6-month program that helps small doc teams make a big impact!

📅 APPLICATION DEADLINE is October 17, 2024 at 5pm Eastern!

➡️ Apply here: https://lookylookypictures.lpages.co/guided-campaign (And you can join a free live webinar to learn more, see link for details) 🥳

🎓 This round we also have a limited number (4) scholarships available for select recipients. See application for details.

👋🏽 Tag/share with a doc filmmaker friend working on their finishing their film! Let them know you’re rooting for them!! 😇

17/07/2024

What would be most helpful to you? Vote here: https://looky-looky-pictures-b6309c.circle.so/c/show/what-would-be-most-helpful-to-you !

10/07/2024

🎉🎉 BIG NEWS! Impact Filmmaker is here!! We're thrilled to invite you to join our new free community--The Impact Filmmaker Lounge show chat-- and get the reply of Episode 1 of the show--The Impact Filmmaker Show--How to Screen Your Film in Prisons!!

➡️ Get the episode and join the community here: https://www.LookyLookyPictures.com/Show

📷 Photo courtesy of The First Step Thank you!!

🎙️ In this episode, you’ll go behind the scenes to learn how to screen your film in prisons from a Chaplain, a film participant, filmmaker, and campaign manager.

In this episode you'll learn from:

Maurice Clifton is a Chaplain with the United States Chaplaincy Corps (USCC), and served twenty three years of incarceration in Federal Prison. Since being home, Maurice served as a Chaplain with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Maurice is a loving father, husband and champion for his people.

Malika Kidd was released from the Ohio Department of Corrections, after serving 14 years for drug trafficking, in 2015. Upon her release she faced many obstacles, from employment to housing because of having a felony record. Because of the barriers she faced reentering society, she wants to make the road easier for those coming behind her than it was for her and her advocacy in higher education, housing discrimination, and employment barriers is doing just that.

Lance Kramer is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures. Lance produced THE FIRST STEP The First Step (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); CITY OF TREES (Full Frame, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning documentary series THE MESSY TRUTH.

Lillie Fleshler is the Films and Series Campaign Manager for Represent Justice , an organization that turns stories into action by building narrative power within system-impacted communities and mobilizing audiences to transform the legal system.

➡️ Get the episode and join the community here: https://www.LookyLookyPictures.com/Show

22/05/2024

Do you hope to screen your film in prisons? Join us for a free live webinar where you will gain insights on how to screen your film in-facilities.

Go to www.LookyLookyPictures.com/Show to RSVP or to get the free replay.

Share this with filmmakers who may find it helpful!

15/05/2024

Have you ever been to the ER because of your film?

A doc filmmaker shared with me recently that they were working themselves to the point where they had to go to the ER for stress and anxiety.

Please build in your self-care into your impact strategy and plans.

The very first thing our filmmakers do is build a self-care plan into their impact strategy. This is an essential part of the work. Really.

If you're a small doc team that wants to make a big impact, with clarity, easy, and joy along the way, then you may learn more and apply to our Guided Campaign Accelerator--DEADLINE MAY 30--here: https://lookylookypictures.lpages.co/guided-campaign/ -started

07/02/2024

🥳EXCITING NEWS! You’re invited to join our new Impact Filmmaker newsletter + podcast + community!

✨Discover a new way to run your film’s impact campaign with step-by-step guidance!

🎥 Resources designed specifically for small doc teams that want to make a big impact!

🎉 Get upcoming announcements (and free resources!) when you join our Impact Filmmaker newsletter! See link in bio!

💌 And it has a helpful 1-2-3 format:
* Care: 1 self-care reminder
* Community: 2 insights from our NEW podcast
* Connection: 3 ways to connect with us/our community

➡️ Go to LookyLookyPictures.com or click the link in bio

30/11/2023

⏰ Your last chance to join the Masterclass specifically for small doc teams ends today—click here now: https://lookylookypictures.lpages.co/strategy-workshop/

YOU: What if I can't make it live?

ME: You'll still get the replay and this is your only chance to get this Early Bird Bonus rate! If you want to have a clear impact strategy for your film that you're excited about and confident in, then this is a wonderful opportunity!

🥳This Masterclass is specially designed for small doc teams (or 1-person teams) at any stage--idea, development, production, post.

🥰If you want to create your film’s impact campaign strategy with clarity, ease, and joy, then this is for you!

😎Within the next two weeks, you will have:

➡️Clear Impact Strategic Plan that you're excited about!
➡️Templates that will make creating your film's impact strategy super easy and fun!
➡️Effectively involve your film participant(s) with care and while managing expectations
➡️Identify effective impact opportunities for your film regardless of where you are in production now, or how long it takes to make and release your film
➡️Examples from small doc teams that have been where you are and were able to help create meaningful change with their film!
➡️Early Bird Bonuses! Join the LIVE Masterclass and LIVE Q&As, 4 months access to the replays

🚨 Masterclass Early Bird Bonuses Ends soon—click here now: https://lookylookypictures.lpages.co/strategy-workshop/

27/11/2023

Woo hoo!! 🥳 Watch the FREE replay and get the Masterclass Early Bird Bonuses now!!! They end this week!

Free Workshop: “How to Create your Film’s Impact Strategy in 4 Simple Steps”

Click here: https://lookylookypictures.lpages.co/strategy-workshop/

16/11/2023

🎉 Have you RSVP’d to save your spot for Monday’s free workshop?!

Join me on Live on Nov 20th, or RSVP to get the replay at the LINK IN BIO.

❤️‍🔥Free Workshop: How to Create Your Doc Film's Impact Strategy in 4 Simple Steps

🎥 Designed specifically for small do
Save your spot at the LINK IN BIO 😎

Tag/share with a friend!! 👀

28/09/2023

🚨 DEADLINE TO APPLY OCTOBER 18th!

👀 Have filmmaker friends who’ve been thinking about impact for their film? Tell/tag/share this with then now!

➡️➡️ Apply now at www.LookyLookyPictures.com (link in bio)

🎉Seeing our Guided Campaign Accelerator clients get super clear and focused so they confidently make moves with their film’s impact campaigns sets my heart on fire! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 😍😍😍

It’s absolutely magical! 🫶🏼😌✨

➡️➡️If you’re a small doc film team (or 1-person lone wolf filmmaker! ~40% of our clients are!) that wants your film to make a big impact, then apply to our Guided Campaign Accelerator at our website, link in bio— www.LookyLookyPictures.com

Guided Campaign is the only place you can get:

✨Our Care-Centered impact strategy for filmmakers and film participants

✨Community: of filmmakers just like you! So you’re not alone anymore!

✨Curriculum: Masterclass with clarifying guidance, examples, checklists for your impact events, templates and personal reviews of your impact materials—website, partnership kit, strategy doc, etc.

✨Calls: Our incredible weekly group call is the highlight of our week! We share and celebrate your wins, what we’re all grateful for, and, of course, answer your personal questions about your film’s impact. You also get 1:1 gamifyed calls, impact celebration parties, and more! 🥰

➡️➡️ Learn more and apply at www.LookyLookyPictures.com (link in bio).

DM us with any questions or to share a bit about your film. I’d love to hear from you! You’ll get a response directly from me! 😊

-Ani Mercedes (Founder/Impact Producer, )

19/09/2023

🎉Seeing our Guided Campaign Accelerator clients get super clear and focused so they confidently make moves with their film’s impact campaigns sets my heart on fire! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 😍😍😍

It’s absolutely magical! 🫶🏼😌✨

➡️➡️If you’re a small doc film team (or 1-person lone wolf filmmaker! ~40% of our clients are!) that wants your film to make a big impact, then check out how to join our Guided Campaign Accelerator at our website, link in bio— LookyLookyPictures.com

Guided Campaign is the only place you can get all of this: Content review, Community, Calls, and Curriculum…

✨Content review: Personal review of your impact materials—partnership kit, strategy doc, website, etc.

✨Community: with filmmakers just like you! So you don’t feel alone anymore!

✨Calls: Our incredible weekly group call is the highlight of our week! We share and celebrate your wins, what we’re all grateful for, and, of course, answer your personal questions about your film’s impact. (And even if you can’t make it live we record it and timestamp all of your questions. We’re super organized and can help you get your campaign organized too. 🤓)

✨Curriculum: You get a masterclass designed around our 3-part impact framework, specifically for small doc teams—90% of lessons are under 15 mins to fit into your busy schedule—and include inspiring film impact lessons grounded in 7+ years of experience leading national film campaigns, include templates, tech tutorials, and center your personal self-care and that of your film participants. 🫶🏼

➡️➡️ Learn more and see how you can join at LookyLookyPictures.com or click the link in bio.

DM us with any questions or to share a bit about your film. I’d love to hear from you! You’ll get a response directly from me! 😊

-Ani Mercedes (Founder/Impact Producer, )

23/08/2023

Let us know in the comments or DM us! I can’t wait to hear from you!

03/08/2023

Sending so much love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love right now.

And deepest deepest condolences to Beadie Finzi and her family, everyone at , and everyone feeling love for Jess right now.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Jess, thank you so much for being a titan in our industry, for believing in the impact of films, and the impact of people, for your care, your mentorship, your laughter, your dance moves. Sending so much gratitude and love to you.

Forever a big fan of your work (To quote Kahlil Gibran, “Work is love made visible.” You, and Doc Society, exemplify that.). Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

- Ani Mercedes
(Impact Producer and Founder of , in large part because of what Jess Search and Doc Society created ❤️❤️❤️)

Photos: Good Pitch USA 2019 for its 44th edition, and the last in-person global Good Pitch before the pandemic. What a blessed moment. Photos taken by Lauren Colchamiro.

26/06/2023

Did you ever want to learn how your film’s impact can also help your distribution opportunities?

Join us and .film this Thursday for a free webinar—RSVP at the link in bio!!

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Reaching your film’s widest possible audience won’t necessarily lead to meaningful impact. Your distribution and impact goals are different, but they can complement and reinforce each other.

Thursday, June 29th @ 1pm PT, Ani Mercedes of Looky Looky Pictures joins us to discuss how you can activate your audience in powerful ways while releasing your film and generating revenue.

Save a seat in this public webinar at the link in our profile.

31/05/2023

ITVS' Diversity Development Fund gives directors of color up to $35,000 in research and development funding to develop a documentary for public media. The documentary can be on any subject, viewpoint, or style as long as it is in development or pre-production. The application closes June 16th.

Apply here:

ITVS Diversity Development Fund gives producers of color up to $15,000 in research and development funding to develop a documentary film for public media. | ITVS

11/04/2023

🎉 WOO HOO! That was SO much fun!!

Thank you everyone who joined us LIVE from all around the world for our Masterclass: Film Impact for Small Teams!! It was incredible to hear about your films!

🎥 Did you join us (or watch the replay)? Tell us in the comments what was most helpful!

💌 Did you miss it? Get the replay at www.LookyLookyPictures.com/Workshops

Did you make the group pic, or joined us live? Drop a line about your film in the comments so you can re-connect with new film friends!

06/04/2023

✨ Meet Francisco Alcala !

Francisco is the Producer/ Second Camera of The Big Heart Foundation and will be sharing a behind-the-scenes look at their film’s impact campaign at our Virtual Masterclass: Film Impact for Small Teams (link in bio or go to https://lookylookypictures.com)!

More about Francisco Alcala:
Francisco Alcala not only is he the proud father of Alejandra Alcala, the talented director of The Neighborhood Storyteller, but he is also deeply involved in the project as a producer, second camera, still photographer, and co-impact producer. In 2013, he made a bold decision to leave his well-paid job as VP of Kellogg's Latin-America Supply Chain to co-found and the non-profit HOME Storytellers. Although some may consider his decision crazy, Francisco believes that money isn't everything, and he has gained invaluable experiences that he wouldn't trade for anything. Despite living in different countries, Francisco and Alejandra talk every day and work closely together. Above all, Francisco feels privileged to be making a positive impact on the lives of refugees, women, and girls in vulnerable situations, which brings him immense happiness.

🎉 During our Masterclass: Film Impact for Small Teams, filmmakers will share a behind-the-scenes look at running their film impact campaigns as a small team, and more (we’re announcing some new very special guests in the coming days! 🥁!) We. Can’t. Wait!

✨ Join us live! Get your ticket at the link in bio or at https://lookylookypictures.com🎉

06/04/2023

🥁🥁🥁 Speaker spotlight continued (see previous post)!
Francisco Alcala is the Producer/ Second Camera of The Neighborhood Storyteller and will be sharing a behind-the-scenes look at their film’s impact campaign at our Virtual Masterclass: Film Impact for Small Teams (link in bio or go to https://lookylookypictures.com)!

The Neighborhood Storyteller () is the inspiring and heroic story of Asmaa, a determined young Syrian mother of four living as a refugee in Zaatari camp, Jordan, who for the last seven years has been using the art of reading aloud for pleasure to children as a bridge to tackle issues within her community. Trained by Jordanian nonprofit, We Love Reading, Asmaa uses the skills she learned, her creativity and resourcefulness to embark on a new reading project that contributes to building a conscious generation of strong and empowered women.

🎉 During our Masterclass: Film Impact for Small Teams, filmmakers will share a behind-the-scenes look at running their film impact campaigns as a small team, and more (we’re announcing some new very special guests in the coming days! 🥁!) We. Can’t. Wait!

✨ Join us live! Get your ticket at the link in bio or at https://lookylookypictures.com🎉

21/10/2021

Check out this powerful and timely spot on ABC News for And So I Stayed this morning.

The award-winning documentary “And So I Stayed” follows three survivors of domestic violence who were incarcerated for fighting back against their abusers.

07/10/2021

✨ It's half time at our Film Impact-in-a-Day Conference! 100+ filmmakers are joining us worldwide! Were you there? Tag yourself! Are you attending? Share an ah-ha moment in the comments! Missed it? Today = last chance to get your ticket for the replay: https://lookylookypictures.lpages.co/impact

05/10/2021

The impact you have in the world is daily, in every moment. It is not when your film is released. It's starts the moment you decide to make the film, follow a dream of creating something out of nothing, a dream to serve others in pursuing theirs.

I envisioned a world where every human being can see their story with the love, dignity, and respect each of us deserves. I believe storytelling is a human right, not a luxury or a privilege. A human right. The stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves and the world, are the most powerful tools we have.

The storytelling journey is one of leads to healing, comfort, and self-actualization. I truly believe it makes the world a better place, and have seen it make it so.

I am creating a world where my company, Looky Looky Pictures, is leading filmmakers to a whole new world of possibility that fully empowers them to own their film’s life, connect deeply with their audience, and build independence (not dependence on distribution). I am proud of this journey, and grateful to everyone who’s part of it—our clients, audience, film protagonist, our team, and beyond.

In our 5th (!) year, I decide to host a virtual conference to celebrate. I don’t often talk about this, but going forward, I will unapologetically step into my role as a leader and my dream of what’s possible because and I truly am trying to be the change I hope to see in the world.

I can not wait to share these two workshops of completely new, transformational insights for with nearly 100 filmmakers joining us from around the world for our virtual conference this week! Join us. Celebrate with us.

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