Filmmaker Paul Devlin has been spending time sharing his experiences with his most recent project BLAST!. I mentioned his article on festival strategy and I had a chance to also catch up with his article on ArtistShare, an alternative funding model that he experimented with on the project.
The concept behind ArtistShare actually started with musicians. [...]

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I noticed on Lifehacker today that Netflix is now streaming to TiVo, and while I wasn’t watching, they also added Watch It Now for Macs (the option was only available to PC users for a long while). From their website:
Instantly watch movies (some new releases) & TV episodes (including current season) from over 12,000 choices [...]

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I’m happy that this discussion (“The Sky is Falling” for independent film, which began in June at the LA Film Festival) is still going on many months later. The more we hash out all of the complicated intricacies of how the production and distribution of film is changing, the more we all benefit from greater [...]

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The FCC ruled last month that Comcast is unlawfully interfering with its customers web traffic, specifically peer-to-peer file sharing. Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Associated Press did file sharing tests and noticed that they were being reset; the internet provider was in effect, blocking the file sharing, which violates the FCC’s 2005 policy statement to “enforce an open ‘Net, [...]

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