Liz Rosenthal has always been an advocate of all things digital and was the Programme Director of Digimart’s Global Digital Distribution Summit, in Montréal. Last Friday she organized Power To The Pixel, an industry forum running alongside the London Film Festival. Speakers included: Ira Deutchman (President & CEO Emerging Pictures), David Straus & Joe Neulight (Co-founders, Withoutabox), Kelly De Vine (Content Consultant, Renew Media), Robert Greenwald (Director, Iraq For Sale, Walmart, Outfoxed), Susan Buice & Arin Crumley (Directors, Four Eyed…

Interesting post I just stumbled upon (and I mean this literally, I wasn’t using StumpleUpon!) on Chris Anderson’s Long Tail blog. He has posted an email he received from a filmmaker who is finding it very difficult to make a living in long tail land and who argues that it benefits big companies and consumers but that small producers are still struggling to survive: Your Long Tail theory is a basic and profound truth that I happily embrace AS A…

I mentioned Lance Weiler’s Workbook Project in an earlier post but I forgot to put a link to this article from the Winter 2007 edition of Filmmaker Magazine. It has lots of tips from Weiler on setting up websites, syndicating content, increasing your Google rating and links to some useful sites you may not already know about. It’s an inspiring article because as Weiler says: “In the end, there is no one right way to distribute or market your film.…

I was having a browse on the always interesting London-based bigshinything website and rediscovered this video about Web 2.0 – I know it’s been around for a while and the music is just a tad irritating but it’s a nifty little examination of what is happening online. Bigshinything also have a post which talks about a possible MySpace/Facebook class divide that is very interesting although the whole “hegemonic/subaltern” vocabulary is bringing back my academia-rash! The issue of how divisions and…

For some reason I read Wired magazine virtually from cover to cover yesterday. I came across an article about Luis von Ahn, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon who has invented a game called Matchin’ where two players compete to accurately describe a series of random pictures found on the web in a given space of time. It doesn’t sound like the most fun you can have with your clothes on to me but apparently it’s very addictive. The…

If you haven’t checked out Lance Weiler’s Workbook Project yet then go there now because it is fast becoming an invaluable toolbox for indie filmmakers. The Workbook Project describes itself as “a social open source experiment for content creators” and Wired Magazine have called Weiler “One of twenty-five people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.” Here’s more about it from the site: Our goal is to create a free resource for content creators that will become…