Just a quick note from the Sundance Film Festival, currently underway in Park City, Utah, that the festival is making 10 shorts from the fest available for free on iTunes. From the home page of the festival (here), click on the banner on the right and you will be transported to their iTunes home. I’m [...]

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An interesting article by John Jurgensen about the recent online-only film releases:
Independent filmmakers are known for taking risks with their art, but many are wary of digital distribution. Now, as perceptions shift, they’re going online in growing numbers. Thursday, “Haze,” a film making its debut at the Hamptons International Film Festival in New York, also [...]

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It still surprises me that there are filmmakers unfamiliar with Withoutabox.com, the film festival submission site. You enter all of the information about your project and it allows you to select the festival you wish to submit to, you pay your entry fee and the festival gets access to all of that information you entered. [...]

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Technically, this is a call for entries, but I’m really psyched to announce this new festival/distribution model that is the brainchild of three forward-thinking, very cool film-slash-new media guys, Lance Weiler, Arin Crumley and M Dot Strange. They call From Here to Awesome a “discovery and distribution festival.” I’m still wrapping my mind around how [...]

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