Sheri Candler is a successful marketing and publicity specialist who is putting her skills and expertise into helping independent filmmakers gather an audience for their work. While working as the Marketing and Sponsorship Manager for the Santa Clarita Valley Film Festival, she encountered numerous talented filmmakers who possessed expert knowledge in storytelling and film production, yet lacked the knowledge of how to promote and distribute their films. As a fan of independent films, it was painful to see how opportunities were being missed and she now uses her marketing experience to help independent filmmakers devise successful marketing and promotional strategies. Recently, she has worked with the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Los Angeles International Shorts Fest (LA Shorts) and is a contributing writer to Microfilmmaker Magazine covering film marketing for microbudget films.

Current and past projects include promoting 2009 NFB Cannes Short Film Corner winner “Sebastian’s Voodoo”; “Butterflies,” one of the first films to utilize the YouTube rental program; 2010 Slamdance official selection “YELLOWBRICKROAD.” I collaborate with Jon Reiss, author of “Think Outside the Box Office,” and participate in his TOTBO workshop series; consult with non profit film distribution, marketing & filmmaker education organization The Film Collaborative; currently working with a transmedia project called THE WORLD OF DEPLETED; and I am a featured expert in the new Guerilla Filmmakers Pocketbook by Chris Jones, Genevieve Jolliffe & Andrew Zinnes

In addition to her interest in films and marketing them, Sheri is obligated to disclose she also held stints as an amateur ballet dancer, a Russian radio personality (Moscow, Radio 7), a world traveler and a London based Marketing Manager for a Japanese broadcast equipment manufacturer. In 1993, she witnessed first-hand the attempted coup in Moscow and has the pictures to prove it.

She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Broadcasting and Film from the University of Alabama (Roll Tide Roll) and International Studies Certificate in Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations from the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI).

You can send her a private message on info (at) shericandler (dot) com