Maxyne Franklin with SXSW’s Janet Pierson Teddy Leifer, Jeremy Chilnick and Paul Taylor SnagFilm’s Andrew Mer with Jess Search Beadie Finzi introduces Larry Charles Jamie Campbell deep in conversation with Larry Charles AJ Schnack announces that Man On Wire has won the Best British Film prize at Britdoc The Britdoc gals and Larry: Katie Bradford, Jess Search, Larry Charles, Maxyne Franklin, Beadie Finzi Rebecca Lloyd-Evans and Beadie Finzi rocking out to Heavy Load Jess Search and Beadie Finzi get wigged…

Maxyne Franklin (Britdoc), Daniella Eversby (CPH:DOX) and Louise Platel (Channel 4) soak up the sun before a screening Jess Search gives Peter Dale a few pointers before the DocFest Debate: “The house believes docs should be more serious” Kurt Engfehr has his say at the debate Britdoc’s Charlotte Dale rocking her blue eyelashes at the Handlebar Moustache Disco Shooting People’s Tamsin Wright looking very glam Danielle DiGiacomo (IndiePix) and Sandra Whipham (More4) Current TV’s Emily Renshaw-Smith draped in Mardi Gras…

The sun came out yesterday afternoon for gin and tonics on the Quad while The Bollywood Brass Band marched around the college playing famous songs from Bollywood movies. Today it’s The Big Pitch in the Oxford Playhouse and screenings including Up the Yangtze, Thriller in Manila, At the Death House Door and Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Croquet on the Quad The Bollywood Brass Band Heather Croall, James Mullighan, Charlie Phillips and other peeps sipping G&Ts on the lawn Ryan Harrington…

I was up with the birds this morning to prepare for Britdoc which starts today. It’s so great to be back at Keble and there are so many really fantastic people attending this year. My Surgeries (nothing medical, just one-to-one meetings with industry experts) start with aplomb at noon today with Cara Mertes from Sundance. Followed my some of my favorite doc folk: Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Matt Dentler, Danielle DiGiacomo, Debra Zimmerman, Judith Helfand and Robert West. . .…

Big indie film news this morning as SnagFilms launches a Beta site with free streaming features including Super Size Me, Run Granny Run and Dig! – films that you can also embed as a widget which I am very excited about (I’m a big fan of widgets). I’m desperate to have a play with SnagFilms but am so snowed with work in London that I only have time to write this very brief blog post. So check out all the…

Hey Folks Current TV, From Here to Awesome and the Workbook Project are doing a FREE event on July 26th in Los Angeles that you should attend if you’re in town. DIY DAYS How do we sustain ourselves as filmmakers and storytellers in this day of shifting film distribution systems? How do we monetize our film and get the word out? Presented by From Here to Awesome the Workbook Project and Current TV – DIY DAYS aims to answer these…

John August, director of The Nines and also a screenwriter with a great blog, has written a really candid, useful post, partly in response to Mark Gill’s comments, about what he learned about distribution after his experiences with The Nines. Read his take on indiefreude and why acceptance to Sundance does not mean that you’ve made it and there’s money in the bank. He also makes the important point that there is much success to be found in Gill’s 99.9%…

Full Battle Rattle opens at Film Forum today and we have an interview with the directors Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber up on Shooting People. Read the interview and see the film. It’s surreal and powerful – the US military can’t control a simulation so how can they control a war?

The good people at the Center for Social Media have published a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. Here’s what they say about it: This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances. This is a guide to…

Have you had a look at the films in The YouTube Screening Room yet? Launched in June, the Screening Room is a curated space that allows you to watch 4 new films every second Friday – many of them films that have played at film festivals like I Met The Walrus. Brent Hoff from Wholphin explains why this is such a great thing, as the Screening Room facilitates “an explosion of community. . . based solely on what people love.”…