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  • Killer Aced; sponsorship could help finance your indie film

    There are all kinds of schemes and innovations emerging in financing and marketing, and it’s no surprise that veteran producer Christine Vachon and her production company Killer Films are at the forefront. Vachon has teamed up with online film production network Massify and the uberhip NYC Ace Hotel (the Seattle and Portland locations are favourites of mine) to produce a series of short films- with sponsorship money from the hotel and the website but basic creative freedom (the films are set in a hotel, but that is hardly a constraint).

    At tonight’s IFP fete for

  • 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]

  • Caachi Vidget snags trailer sharing

    Snag Films has been out for a bit now, and I’m not sure how they are doing, though I have noticed Snag-related stories and promotion around the internets.  When they launched, I wrote to them to suggest using the technology for trailers as well as full-length films.  For me, the chance of making money in a scheme where revenues are tied to people watching the whole film (Snag monetizes the films with a series of interstitial ads, and the filmmaker gets something like $.10 if the viewer watches the whole film) and this is a streaming situation, even… [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]

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