Jon Reiss is a filmmaker, author and media strategist who founded Hybrid Cinema upon the publication of his book Think Outside the Box Office and has since advised hundreds of films, film organizations and companies to help them navigate the ever changing world of film distribution and marketing.
 
He has worked with IFP, the Sundance Institute, Screen Australia, Film Independent, Creative Scotland and numerous film schools and festivals to devise ways to educate and help independent filmmakers in the new economic landscape.    He has conducted his distribution master classes over five continents and is the year-round distribution and marketing lab leader at the IFP Filmmaker Labs.  He co-wrote Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul and Selling Your Film in Europe with Sheri Candler and The Film Collaborative.  Reiss also contributes to Filmmaker Magazine, No Film School, Huffington Post, Indiewire, Screen Daily, Moviemaker Magazine and other publications.
 
Named one of “10 Digital Directors to Watch” by Daily Variety, Jon Reiss is a critically acclaimed filmmaker whose features include the global graffiti documentaries Bomb It and Bomb It 2, Better Living Through Circuitry and Cleopatra’s Second Husband.  Reiss has also directed music videos for Nine Inch Nails, The Black Crowes, Danzig and Slayer. His early credits also include four hour-long documentaries concerning the notorious performance group Survival Research Laboratories.  Reiss got his start in filmmaking at Target Video, a San Francisco based video collective where he covered much of the West Coast punk explosion.