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 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, 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, 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 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.
