Eek! Where have I been? I hate to keep saying it but after Sundance, I was sick for a week and am still catching up. Leave the garden untended for two weeks and the weeds are uncontrollable! But, I know my filmmaker friends have all been there during production, so I won’t worry too much.
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I was just sent some information from a member of a MeetUp group I belong to here in New York dedicated to documentary, specifically nonfiction works without distribution. Based on the CurrentTV model, GroundReport TV is a news media outlet where people can file their stories, and make a bit of dough. Recently […]

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There’s yet another online social film marketplace (like virtual souks without having to deal with any funky smells) that “hit the stands” today. Based on the connecting-filmmakers-to-fans-to-sell-your-film model, IndieGoGo’s site already features projects by Irena Salina (her Flow: For Love of Water is Sundance-bound), Yung Chang (his Up the Yangtze is also Sundance-bound, and […]

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The re-launch of The Independent, the now-defunct AIVF print publication that I and many in the indie film world miss, is complete. This new incarnation is a website that looks like a lite version right now, but is nicely laid out and appears to have potential. However, Anthony Kaufman reports that he has received a […]

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Via TechCrunch, The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos, is a very interesting look into the techniques some folks are using to create hurricanes around online videos. You might read this and think it is kind of smarmy and way more underhanded than you want to be, but it strikes a cord as I think […]

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