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- INTERVIEW- Karin Chien- dGeneration
As digital distribution evolves, it seems likely that smaller operations will benefit from serving niche markets- both to concentrate sales efforts and to become more attractive to advertisers.dGenerate is a new distribution project set to launch this summer that partners American indie producers, Chinese filmmakers, and Tribeca Film Institute and TFI’s Amazon digital distribution partnership Reframe. dGenerate head Karin Chien was kind enough to share some information about this exciting new venture.(ICI): How did you come up with the idea for dGenerate?Karin: Honestly, the idea came… [more]
- Crash Course
As we’ve moved increasingly into mobile technologies, English teachers have been aghast at the trend of shorter, even micro communiques with questionable spelling and grammar that have all but made the elegant postal letter obsolete.Cinema studies grads may be the next to gasp. If When the Internet and Film Collide is the guide to the new film ouvre, ‘mobile cinema’ looks a lot like what we formerly called a “promo clip”. On mobile, attention spans are short and pixels are few. Even on laptops with giant 14″ screens, on services such as MySpace or YouTube, viewers… [more]
- Online on Online
I’ll be heading to the Where Film and Internet Collide event tonight at IFC Center and to the follow-up at the Apple Store SoHo on Sunday 6/8. In anticipation, or in case you can’t make it, here’s a survey of some recent panels and discussions on the topic:The Future of Cinema panel at Cannes 08, May 21, 2008Gaurav Dhillon (Jaman Founder), Wayne Clarkson (Telefilm Canada Executive Director), Elliot Kotek (Moving Pictures Magazine), Marc Halperins: (Magic Lamp Releasing CEO Founder), Git Scheynius: (Director Stockholm Film Festival), Ana Serrano: (Director of CFC Media Lab… [more]
- News Round-Up 6/5/08
Updates from around the nets:Time Warner Cable has created tiered broadband pricing. After 40G of downloads, you will pay extra. An alternative perhaps to net-favouritism strategies like slowing traffic, the plan may impinge the flow of BitTorrent and other piracy-laden file sharing methods. On the other hand, coming just at a time when the market for media online is about to break, the strategy could have retarding consequences. But won’t some other company just come along and offer unlimited access and grab TW’s customer base? I guess they aren’t worried.Netflix expects… [more]
- Oh. Canada?
Apple announced today that its iTunes store would finally be reaching the key market of Canada, to go along with its other recent conquests in the U.K.. Meanwhile, debate rages on in my homeland about Bell and Rogers’ attempts to throttle P2P sharing of copyrighted files, while the legality of such sharing remains ambiguous. And Hollywood, who can no longer tolerate Canada even for service work now that the loony is so strong, blames Canadians for up to 50% of feature film internet piracy (the worst offenders are in Montreal, naturally- those… [more]
- Goin’ Mobile
Though statistics might suggest that Americans are just not terribly interested in watching movies on their telephones (Nielsen put the numbers for mobile video penetration at 3% in 2007), there may be some rather drastic changes on the horizon. Not only are more companies creating content specifically for mobile devices, more, like Sony, are targeting the full-length movie audience.What’s more, on June 9, Steve Jobs is set to announce a new iPhone- and if rumours prove true, this one will be a significant step up from the first model as well as a lot cheaper… [more]
- You gotta give for what you take
Wired has published 6,000 words of editor and Long Tail author Chris Anderson’s new book Free on its site. Anderson, who has been busy promoting the economics of Free around the internet, also gives an interesting interview to EconTalk host Russ Roberts over at the Library of Economics and Liberty, who challenges Anderson on several things. The Long Tail is a semi-genius approach to the new socioeconomic order of internet culture. Free seems to be a little less considered. There are definitely things that seem “free” like Wikipedia, or blogger for that matter… [more]
