

How To Create an Indie Film Marketing Plan
When I set out to create a marketing plan for The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop, I quickly discovered that there are not a lot of online materials related to creating a marketing plan for an indie film. People are understandably protective of their intellectual property, making it difficult to find good examples to refer to when creating this plan. While I already had experience marking one indie film, we made most decisions for that project on the fly. With The Ext


The Story Behind Cecily Blinkstop
I wrote The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop during my first semester at graduate school and, from the moment I completed the first draft, I knew that this would be the first feature film I would tackle as a director. While creating Cecily's world, I pulled from my own life experiences to develop the characters and basic plot, but then something truly magical happened: my characters came to life. They took over and told the story for me. The Extraordinary World of Ceci


Meet Our Producer of Marketing Spencer Cohen!
I am Spencer Cohen and I am the Producer of Marketing & Distribution. While I never had an imaginary friend, in college I did play an imaginary sport! I always thought I would play baseball in college and even get into the MLB. I had some lofty dreams! Every day I was outside throwing the ball through a small target in backyard. Tee-ing the ball up and swinging endlessly. Early on in high school that dream began to fade and transform into my love and passion for filmmaking. H


Meet Our Editor Luisa Piña!
I am Luisa Piña and I am part of the Marketing Team, the Editor, and Assistant Director. I never had an imaginary friend. With 3 siblings I never needed more distractions. But I have memories of myself as a child, hiding in the closet of my room directing a Teddy Bear to conduct interviews on me about my success as a singer -I always thought Gloria Estefan was going to “discover” me-. In my teens, the dreams of becoming a young Shakira faded. I decided to go to college with t


Meet Production Manager Victoria Hersey!
Hi my name is Victoria Hersey and I am an Associate Producer on the production team of The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop. I grew up in Michigan playing cops and robbers and football with the neighbor hood kids. I was surrounded by creativity. One time we attached remote control cars to a blow up chair and paraded each other around…until we reached the stairs. I didn’t say we had the best ideas, but we had fun! I wish we had had a camera back then. When I moved to Ne


Meet Visual Artist Mike delGiudice!
I'm the Visual Artist for the film creating the poster and doing visual work in in post-production. I've been working with Jen for 9 years and I'm so excited to be working on her newest production! One of my hobbies in my spare time is jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. You haven't seen the world unless you've seen free falling two miles above the Earth. And hey look at it this way - it's lethal one you're above 100 feet so why not got to 13,000? #mikedelgiudice #artist


Meet Our Director Jennifer Potts!
Hello! I am Jen Potts, writer and director of The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop. I was born in 1970 in a little town in Western Maryland called Hagerstown. To date, I have lived in six states in the US and in London, England, and have attended 13 schools. I worked as a theatre director for the first half of my career, directing more than 10 productions before returning to school at age 41 to study film production with kids less than half my age. As a child, I had an