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Reelhouse Paves the Way for the Future of Self-Distribution

04.19.13 @ 7:33AM Tags : content, distribution, indiefilm, onlinevideo, platform, reelhouse, selfdistribution, streaming, sundance

Each new day that passes it seems the world of distribution for filmmakers is being turned on its head. With so many new content destinations popping up all the time, it’s hard to know what’s what. Reelhouse is a company who seems to be breaking through the mold, as a recent partnership with Sundance would suggest. Reelhouse is planning a big launch on April 22nd — read on for our interview with Bill Mainguy, CEO and Founder of Reelhouse and get to know the platform: More »

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Independent Films Have Received $100 Millon on Kickstarter So Far, Are We Just Getting Started?

01.7.13 @ 8:36PM Tags : crowdfunding, independentfilmmaking, indiefilm, kickstarter

Think about that for a second. Just a few years ago everyone was talking about how the bottom had fallen out of independent film funding. While that may be true to a certain extent, Kickstarter has completely changed the way smaller films are funded, and they’ve created a new golden age of film funding. Who knows if the funding on Kickstarter will ever dry up, but for now, it’s one of the best places to go if you’re trying to make a movie or web series. Check out some of the incredible statistics below: More »

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So You Want to Be an Indie Auteur? Raindance Film Festival Wants to Teach You How to Fake It

01.7.13 @ 11:55AM Tags : directing, filmmaking, independentfilmmaking, indiefilm

You’ve probably seen at least one of them if you’ve ever been to a film festival. Some of them are long, some are boring, some are downright brilliant, but one thing the biggest ones have in common is that they can launch an indie career. Suzanne Ballantyne, the Head of Programming over at the Raindance Film Festival, has put together some tips for budding amateurs from her experience watching over 500 potential festival feature films per year — and hopefully by the end you’ll have the knowledge to fake being an “Indie Auteur.” More »

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Aurasma: A Great Self-Promotion Tool and a Way to Get Your Film into Augmented Reality

07.26.12 @ 5:15PM Tags : alteredreality, android, app, indiefilm, ipad, iphone, promotion, selfpromotion, webvideo

Augmented Reality has been slowly making its way into our lives, mostly in the form of demo videos, games, and Google’s forthcoming Glass project. But Aurasma is a cool little app that puts the tools to create AR content into the hands of everyone, and has implications that could put an interesting twist in filmmaking for the web: More »

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Why are box office numbers public, but not VOD, DVD, and PPV? A call for indie analytics

05.8.10 @ 12:00PM Tags : bryannewman, indiefilm, revenue

Indie film consultant Brian Newman (@bnewman01) has posted a call for better analytics in order to figure out the future of independent film. To Bryan, “the biggest problem facing the indie film field is the lack of transparency around the numbers. Which numbers? All of them.” I wholeheartedly agree and this is exactly why I’m trying to share my own metrics — for now, it’s just blog revenue, but in the near future it will be video views/income as well.

Some salient questions from Bryan: More »