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- Brian Newman at DIY Days on Free
Missed Brian’s presentation at DIY Days so it’s great that our new online video technology can bring it to us on demand… [more]
- Is the DVD Dead or Just Resting? Kino’s Brian Shirey on Independent DVDs
What is the future of the DVD format and what is working now? I spoke to Brian Shirey, Director of Media Production at Kino International, about the DVD and where it’s headed.
INFINICINE: In the last 2 years in DVD production, have you noticed any changes? Have you had to make more DVDs to stay at the same revenue levels?
BRIAN SHIREY: There hasn’t been much change in actual DVD production, other than trying to get HD materials as our source when it comes to new films. For Blu-Ray, HD masters are a given. For DVD, if you… [more]
- I Interview Slava Rubin of IndieGoGo.com
IndieGoGo.com offers online fundraising and promotional tools to independent filmmakers… [more]
- Crowdsourcing’s Jeff Howe explains the concept
Useful to think about in terms of reaching communities and audiences… [more]
- Why are the big three fests so important?
Speaking with my distribution hat on, we often receive calls from filmmakers who express bitterness that we tend to look primarily at films that come out of major festivals, the big three being Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto, and for us, also Berlin, Venice, and Rotterdam.
They usually act as though it was an affront that we were trying to be ‘exclusive’ and keep their populist movie out of the distribution game. Then there are industry analysts who suggest that these festivals are essential because the programmers weed out the dross and show us “an initial signal of a film’s
- Tease and Screen is a new funding idea
Today, IndieGoGo and Sausalito Film Festival will launch a new event called the Tease and Screen. The idea is to give filmmakers an opportunity to show clips from works-in-progress and invite audience members to participate as funders, crew, or publicity-generators. The work is featured at the Festival and on IndieGoGo.com.
The inaugural Tease and Screen showcases a number of projects:
o The Harvest – by Robin Romano (produced by Eva Longoria and the producers of War Dance) – A documentary about the children who work to feed America.o Time to… [more]
- Pick a Panel for SXSW
The SXSW Panel Picker went live today and there are many intriguing options. One I hope you’ll give the thumbs up to is mine, “The Main Event: Finding an Audience for Your Film.” The idea of the panel is to learn from awesome experts how to create event screenings, i.e. screenings with more excitement, interactivity and singularity than just your typical 7PM showing. Just as rock bands have used live shows to pick up the slack financially now that CD sales are slumping, independent filmmakers can create event screenings to bring more people in to see… [more]
- Top 5 places to post your trailer
You’ve laboured to make the the perfect, taut, compelling trailer- now you need people to see it. Where are the places that will get your film to your audience?
1. Youtube
2. Apple trailers- if you can get on here, it is the gold standard, but they’re selective.
3. Facebook- A fan page is good, but the advanced user may want to consider a video sharing widget ala Brightcove
4. Hulu – trailers are in MPEG2 format and you should contact trailers@hulu.com
5. Specialty sites- no matter what the topic of your film, chances are there is a video-hosting… [more]
- Creatasphere presents an equipment demo
From the mailbag:
Emerging Technologies Workshop Summer ’09: High Performance, Cost-Efficient New Systems
Createasphere/CONNECT Event @ Abel Cine Tech
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 – 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
(light refreshments will be served)
Session 1 4pm – 4:50pm JVC GY-HM700L17 ProHD Solid-State Camcorder
Session 2 5pm – 5:50pm… [more]
- Power to the Pixel deadline nears
From the Power to the Pixel site:
We are looking for stories that can span film, TV, online, mobile and gaming to be presented to a select group of financiers, commissioners, tech companies, online portals and media companies in front of an audience of PttP participants.
The selected project teams will compete for the
BABELGUM PIXEL PITCH AWARD of £6,000.Teams will benefit from significant international publicity and be introduced to new international business and partnership opportunities as well as one-to-one consultancies.
1. Projects must have a Producer attached and be submitted through a production company
2. Submissions must be made by the Producer
3. Producer(s)… [more]
