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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Finally some experimenting with “Giving it away for free” from a UK cinema chain: Slackers Club (probably Michael Moore fans). Picturehouse Cinemas has teamed up with E4 to let students watch films for free – ones a month – and force everyone who shows up into alcoholism by providing them with a free Stella Artois [...]

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NewTeeVee has a post on VideoWTF, a video-related Wiki/Yahoo-Answers like site. From what I’ve seen, I think it looks clean and tidy – something that is usually a problem when a lot of questions and answers of a lot of people come together. But will we rather seek help from VideoWTF than asking Google?

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Here is an interesting new project. Arin Crumley already used the Web to find audiences for his own film Four Eyed Monsters. Now he helps building a bigger platform for other filmmakers. OpenIndie basically allows fans (and the filmmakers themselves) to request any kind of screening of any film on the site where ever they [...]

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I love to discover watchable films online (and yes, I do watch long-form content online). Whether it is the brilliant Keith Loutit and his technical masterpieces or 45356 – the 2009 SXSW winner that was available for free on SnagFilms. Just yesterday, I finished watching For Love & Stacie. A cleverly made film, I would [...]

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