Adventures in Self Distribution at the Power to the Pixel Forum in London
2 Comments Published by Liz Rosenthal February 26th, 2008 in DIY Distribution, Power to the Pixel London Videos
The final Power to the Pixel session brings together five pioneering filmmakers who are reinventing the way that films reach audiences and audiences reach films. Lance Weiler, Arin Crumley, Susan Buice, Matt Hanson, Jeremy Nathan explain why they chose the DIY path. Moderated by myself.
Matt Hanson at the Power to the Pixel Forum in London
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Visionary filmmaker and futurist Matt Hanson’s talks about A Swarm of Angels, his groundbreaking, collaborative project to create a £1 million film using a swarm of 25,000 people to collaborate in the development, production, finance and distribution of a feature film.
Lance Weiler at the Power to the Pixel Forum in London
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Lance Weiler, visionary filmmaker and DIY distribution expert, gives an overview of his highly inventive and cutting-edge distribution strategy for second feature Head Trauma. Lance reveals how he used no cost online tools to create huge buzz around the movie and how he expanded the audience for his film through multimedia remix cinema events and Alternate Reality Games
Jeremy Nathan at the Power to the Pixel Forum in London
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Digital pioneer and producer Jeremy Nathan from DV8 describes South Africa’s potential to embrace new technologies without the burden that the Western World has with the transition from traditional infrastructure.
Robert Greenwald introduced by Liz Rosenthal at The Power to the Pixel Forum in London
0 Comments Published by Liz Rosenthal February 25th, 2008 in DIY Distribution, Power to the Pixel London Videos
Award-winning documentary filmmaker and activist Robert Greenwald, describes how he and his team at Brave New Films promote, distribute and finance their films independently of mainstream media and corporate America. In a video message filmed especially for Power to the Pixel, he explains how he uses his online fanbase, his extensive email list and a community of people who are actively engaged in financing, marketing and distributing his films, to reach an audience of millions.
Arin Crumley & Susan Buice at Power to the Pixel in London
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Arin & Susan present a candid and illuminating journey into the self-distribution of their first feature Four Eyed Monsters. Hear how they pioneered every online tool they could lay their hands on to turn their award-winning feature and podcast series into a cult phenomenon that has been viewed by millions online, in theatres and on DVD.
Kelly DeVine at the Power to the Pixel Forum in London
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Kelly DeVine describes how Renew Media’s new project Reframe enables content-holders to digitize, disseminate and make available their content to a vast potential audience via a powerful online resource. Reframe have already done a deal with Amazon that gives a much better deal than working directly with Amazon as a standalone rights holder. They also hope to carve out preferential deals with other aggregation portals.
Paula Le Dieu at The Power to the Pixel Forum in London
0 Comments Published by Liz Rosenthal February 25th, 2008 in Intellectual Property, Power to the Pixel London Videos
Paula Le Dieu, MD of Magic Lantern Productions talks about how passion and personal storytelling are key tools for any filmmaker. She goes on to explain how Creative Commons works, how it can empower you and your audience and that the biggest threat to any filmmaker is obscurity. Paula also goes onto explain how DRM - Digital Rights Management - can prevent films from reaching their audiences.
Sara Pollack from YouTube at The Power to the Pixel Forum
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Sara Pollack, Film Manager at YouTube talks about the power of connecting with online communities and the hunger of online audiences to promote and distribute films. She mentions about the new revenue sharing schemes that YouTube are introducing now with content creators. Hear YouTube Co-founder Chad Hurley talk about this at The World Economic Forum in Davos in January in a story posted by NewTeeVee.
David Straus & Joe Neulight at the Power to the Pixel Forum in London
0 Comments Published by Liz Rosenthal February 8th, 2008 in Intellectual Property, Power to the Pixel London Videos
David Straus & Joe Neulight describe how Withoutabox is working to ‘unbox’ the traditional practices of film distribution to create a company based on monetisation services for filmmakers and rights holders, in contrast to a traditional distribution service based on exploiting rights. They describe how the next 100 years of film distribution will be about setting loose libraries instead of dealing in exclusivity and about finding alternative ways of monetising content.Withoutabox has just been acquired by the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), an Amazon.com subsidiary. It will be interesting to watch how they develop synergy between their 100,000 filmmaker members and the 50 million film lovers who visit IMDb each month.