Film Festivals: Pitch TV
“It’s a home for people within the industry to view interesting work,” explains Linda Walsh, describing Pitch TV, a new…
Film Festivals
Point of No Return: On-line Film Festivals, Showcases & Distributors
The Bit Screen www.thebitscreen.com Launched: July 1998 Plug-ins required: RealPlayer Audience (per month): 100,000 page views, download totals unavailable. Contact:…
Film Festivals: The Bit Screen
“It’s really not about distributing films over the Internet,” says Bit Screen creator Nora Barry. “To me, it’s a completely…
Film Festivals: iFilm Network
“If the consumer thinks ‘films’, we want them to come to iFilm as their first point of entry,” says iFilm…
Film Festivals: AtomFilms
“Shorts are cool and we want to make them a viable part of the entertainment spectrum,” says Mika Salmi, founder…
Film Festivals: Always Independent Films
“We accept all formats,” explained Always Independent Films (AIF) president Gary Zeidenstein. “We do have a screening process, [but] as…
Mark Borchardt: The (Other) Indie Prototype
During the Q&A after the first screening of American Movie at Sundance, director Chris Smith hailed his subject Mark Borchardt…
Film Festivals: How To…
My desk is festooned with the fruits of two previous Independent Feature Film Markets: a cupful of pens, buttons, a…
Off the Beaten Track: the Blair Witch Project
We’re kind of a garage band of filmmaking," says Dan Myrick of his collaborators, an Orlando, Florida-based film collective called…