AUDIENCE TAKES CONTROL

03.11 2008

An opportunity for the audience to ask questions to M dot Strange, Timo Vuorensola, Jamie King, Lance Weiler & Arin Crumley.

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ARIN CRUMLEY: Collaboration – A Case Study

03.11 2008

This session gives an overview of modern filmmaking for the independent. How can technology enhance the creative process? What are the new ways to create collaborative films? What does it mean to be a director immersed in a reality where everyone has a camera and is their own director? What is the potential for two-way filmmaking conversations between creators and audiences? How does this new media landscape affect the timing of how content is ideally released, democratic availability to all and sustainability for the creative teams that play a role in making these new films?

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ADAM ERLEBACHER – The New Cross-platform Financiers: Audiences, Sponsors and Brands

03.11 2008

Presentation by Adam Erlebacher, Co-founder PlaceVine.

Presales, MGs and advances are becoming a thing of the past for independent films. Who will the new financiers of independent films be? This session looks at the power of the audience in crowd-sourcing, the power of brands and of sponsors in financing new work.

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SLAVA RUBIN – The New Cross-platform Financiers: Audiences, Sponsors and Brands

03.11 2008

Presentation by Slava Rubin, Co-founder of IndieGoGo.

Presales, MGs and advances are becoming a thing of the past for independent films. Who will the new financiers of independent films be? This session looks at the power of the audience in crowd-sourcing, the power of brands and of sponsors in financing new work.

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THE NEW CROSS-PLATFORM FINANCIERS: AUDIENCES, SPONSORS AND BRANDS

03.11 2008

Presentations and roundtable with Slava Rubin of IndieGoGo and Adam Erlebacher of PlaceVine.

Presales, MGs and advances are becoming a thing of the past for independent films. Who will the new financiers of independent films be? This session looks at the power of the audience in crowd-sourcing, the power of brands and of sponsors in financing new work.

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LANCE WEILER – A New Model For Distribution and Discovery: From Here to Awesome

03.11 2008

For years, the independent film industry has created an unspoken competitive spirit among filmmakers. Competition for festival slots and buyers’ attention has left many filmmakers bitter at the success of others. As the traditional deals fade away, filmmakers now find themselves at a crossroads as new collaborative models emerge. The production side of filmmaking has been democratised, now it is time to open the discovery and distribution processes. A step in that direction is From Here to Awesome. FHTA is an R&D lab of sorts, an open source project that is focused on experimenting with new business models, creating open tools and standards and making recommendations for best practices.

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JAMIE KING – Distribution Case Study: Steal This Film

03.11 2008

Director Jamie King describes how he built a huge audience for his film by giving it away for free. Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against the concept of intellectual property and certainly practices what it preaches, being released via BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol through sites such as Pirate Bay, asking for donations from viewers. The series has been viewed approximately 5 million times.

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TIMO VUORENSOLA – Distribution Case Study: Starwreck in the Pirkinning

02.11 2008


Timo Vuorensola explains how he and his team fully embraced the concept of crowd-sourcing. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning was a huge collaborative effort made by a core group of 5 people in Finland, and a community of about 3,000 volunteers from around the world. The film was a major online hit and has been downloaded over 8 million times.

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M DOT STRANGE – Distribution Case Study: We Are the Strange

02.11 2008

M dot Strange describes the journey he took with his animated feature film We are the Strange, from his bedroom to Sundance and beyond, and back to his little studio again. After turning down Hollywood deals he decided to self distribute and make his films totally independent.

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FABIO LIMA – The New Exhibitors

02.11 2008

Presenthation by Fabio Lima, Co-founder of MovieMobz.

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