I went to the Where Internet and Film Collide event at the IFC Center last night, presented as part of Internet Week New York and hosted by IndieGoGo and Filmmaker Magazine. You can read more about the event on The Film Panel Notetaker but I wanted to link to some of the cool films I saw last night here too. First Green Porno. I love Isabella Rossellini – she’s beautiful, funny and the sort of person I would love to…

The excellent and knowledgeable Laure Parsons has recently started a new blog on distribution in the digital age called Infinicine. It’s pretty new and shiny right now but subscribe to it to get future updates on things happening in the big wide world of digital distribution. This stuff changes so quickly – blogs like this help you stay on top of things so you can make smart distribution decisions and not glaze over when people start talking about VOD and…

Watch a video from the Berlin Talent Campus held earlier this year with M Dot Strange talking about how he made and distributed his film We Are The Strange. M dot Strange: Berlin Talent Campus 08 from M dot Strange on Vimeo.

Liz Rosenthal created Power To The Pixel to create a forum for the independent film community with the latest in depth information and knowledge about new opportunities available in the transforming digital media landscape. She held a one-day conference in London in October last year and all the videos from the sessions are now online so you can hear from industry pioneers like Lance Weiler, David Straus, Kelly DeVine, Robert Greenwald, Matt Hanson and others without leaving your computer.

There’s so much going on at the moment I feel rather gleefully overwhelmed. The Spirit Awards will be broadcast live on IFC tomorrow at 5pmET but I’m also going to be watching a webcast of the red carpet on IFC.com at 2.30pmET with commentary from SXSW’s Matt Dentler and IFC’s Alison Willmore. And then of course on Sunday there’s some Oscar something or other happening. I’m going to find a friend with a bigger TV than mine and make some…

Anne Thompson at Variety has written an interesting article on how companies like B-Side, IFC, Withoutabox, Cinequest, iTunes, Amazon and Netflix are experimenting with new models for distribution. Ira Deutchman from Emerging Pictures is quoted saying: “We’re in the transitional post-major studio pre-Internet era. Models will be clear in the future. We’re still heading toward Web 2.0.” Thompson’s article is a useful survey of some of the alternatives being explored as we navigate through this transitional period – please leave…

As a card carrying feminist (except they don’t give us cards which is very unfortunate!) I am embarrassed to admit that I’m not half the geek I would like to be. I can’t code much more than an html link and I don’t really understand what the Semantic Web is although I like the sound of it very much. I got a bit obsessed with solid-state drives over the weekend but am still not really sure what is so good…

Scott Kirsner of CinemaTech talks to Brian Chirls who pioneered audience building with Arin Crumley and Susan Buice on Four Eyed Monsters and has recently been working on John Sayles’ Honeydripper.

We posted a while back about this great new discovery and distribution festival from DIY filmmaking pioneers Lance Weiler (The Last Broadcast, Head Trauma), Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters) and M dot Strange (We Are The Strange). Submissions are now open so this is your chance to be part of the new (film)world order. The fest will use sites like YouTube and MySpace to allow the audience to interact and share in the process of discovery. Here’s what it says…

Read Peter Broderick’s latest bulletin post on what filmmakers can learn from the Radiohead In Rainbows distribution experiment. His key points are: • Retain overall control of your distribution. • Design a hybrid strategy combining traditional and self-distribution. • Focus initially on your core audience. • Sell exclusively from your website first. • Then expand into traditional retail to supplement direct sales. Check back issues for more Broderick info on creative distribution and building a personal audience. You can also…