All posts tagged "VOD"
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those...
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Surrounded By Wolves: Jeremy Saulnier Teamed up with Netflix to Adapt His Latest Atmospheric Thriller Hold the Dark
Since Jeremy Saulnier’s second feature, the slow-burn revenge tale Blue Ruin premiered to rave reviews at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Saulnier has quickly become one...
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Total Transparency: My Film Bread and Butter Has Almost Recouped Its Expenses—With These Revenue Streams
I am 32 years old. I am 32 years old. I am 32 years old! I avoid disclosing my age. All the time. And I’ve...
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How They Did It: Burning Annie Arrived at Distribution After a Long, Long Decade Of Catastrophes
If an indie film is lucky enough to get distribution at all, the release is its one shot, a match you can’t strike twice. Yet...
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Deliverance! A Distribution Checklist of Deliverables
Production wraps, post-production is completed, and a film finally plays to the public… a moviemaker’s proudest moments. In between these peaks, though, is the long...
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Reflections on 16 Years of Horror Festing: Screamfest’s Founder and Director Shares Veteran Insights
Congratulations! Your film has been accepted into a film festival. Now what? For starters, absolutely rally, promote, attend the festival and support your fellow filmmakers’...
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Moviemaker’s Third Annual Guide to Digital Distribution
Congratulations. Count yourself among the generation of moviemakers for whom Video on Demand (VOD) has progressed from novelty act to main attraction—an essential component to...
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The Great Wiseman Travesty Finally Ends: At 84, Documentarian Breaks On Through to VOD Side
Few would argue if you called Frederick Wiseman one of the world’s greatest living documentarians. And few would also be the approximate number of people...
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Turning Fans Into Programmers: Customizable Digital YEKRA Theater Launches
VOD platform YEKRA announced today the launch of the customizable digital YEKRA theater, which, in keeping with the company’s previous single-film YEKRA player, can be...
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Film Independent Forum 2013: Interview with Film Independent President Josh Welsh
The ninth edition of the Film Independent Forum, put on by Los Angeles-based nonprofit Film Independent, took place October 25-27, 2013 at the Director’s Guild...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...