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June 2, 2007 Film Industry, Follow Up, Resources, Video

Back in March, I was a panelist on a [Writers Guild Foundation](http://www.wgfoundation.org/) forum about publicity — specifically, how film and television writers should approach promoting themselves and their work through the media. As I [wrote at the time](http://johnaugust.com/archives/2007/publicity-101), it seemed to go pretty well.

This afternoon, I was ego-Googling and discovered that clips from the seminar are [available on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQsLCqho8_o):

The audio’s not terrific, and so you’ll probably need to turn your speakers up. This is the main section with me; there are two [other](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNu3rAlCUc) [parts](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV473Sbo2og) focusing on other panelists, which you can find if you click through to the main YouTube site.

Chris Day, the head of publicity for UTA, references a memo I wrote around the time of [Big Fish](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319061/). You can find a .pdf of that [here](http://johnaugust.com/Assets/pub_goals.pdf).

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