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 Monsters), Lance Weiler (Director, Head Trauma, The Last Broadcast), Matt Hanson (Director, A Swarm of Angels).

Like all good digital events there is a blog/website online with lots of interesting links and resources to learn about copyleft, DIY distribution, and digital cinema.

And hopefully some podcasts soon for those of us who missed the event!

I know I have been rabbiting on a bit about last week’s Filmmaker Conference but there are so many great resources available online which I think will be extremely useful for all those filmmakers who couldn’t make the event itself. As usual Lance Weiler has tons of great links and video on the Workbook Project for your viewing pleasure. This panel on consumer viewing habits, moderated by Weiler, will give you lots of good techy tips on how to create an audience for your work and keep ‘em loyal:

Those of you who read my previous post on copyright will be interested to see that Brett Gaylor is on this panel talking about Open Source Cinema, “a collaborative documentary project to create a feature film about copyright in the digital age.” You, yes you, can get involved in this project too so visit the website to find out more.

If all this geek-talk is getting you hot under the collar and you find yourself muttering words like long tail, crowdsourcing and, oh yes, string theory smackdown, then you should have a browse through the Wired Geekipedia. Do you know your DRM from your SEO? You will after reading this.