Yesterday I read this interview with Indie-Filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake, and he too thinks that “Being a filmmaker includes having all the knowledge necessary to make the movie, market the movie, and distribute the movie.” Now that is true, and the Internet has been a great help in actually empowering filmmakers to go it alone, but [...]
Not addictive (well, that too, but that’s another post for another time). Additive means that online TV is an additional channel that doesn’t necessarily take away viewers from its offline counterpart, the boob tube.
A good example (and good news for those of you watching it) is the freshly lifted ban on online streams of Gossip [...]
As promised, here are some fotos of yesterday’s Cliff Diving Challenge.
The Ice Cream Truck on the water – so aweseome!
Cameras on deck
So many boats
Shooting from the Media boat
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I’m live-blogging from the Red Bull Press boat… just about to take off to the cliff across from St. Gilgen. It is a gorgeous day at Wolfgangsee. The Red Bull Cliffdiving Challenge is about to begin – this year they are going t broadcast it live on free to air TV as well. Pretty cool.
We [...]
Lukas and I are currently in St. Wolfgang, Upper Austria, where we are interviewing our friend Faramarz on his strategies for film promotion and distribution. But we are also working hard on our research. Currently we are consolidating all our research assignments. And: we are trying to figure out a system to describe the content [...]
A couple of days ago Matthew, our interface and graphic designer who lives in New Zealand, requested a list of recommendations for films to watch at the NZ International Film Festival, which kicks off in Wellington next week. I got quite excited when I saw the list of films, so this is my Top 5 [...]
As you probably know we are in full-on research mode. Now that means a whole lot of browsing webpages, contacting people and organisations to find out more facts about their gigs and compiling and analysing said data. Complementing this quantitative research (yes, we are empirical researchers…) we also do qualitative interviews with filmmakers, who tell [...]
Well, exploding, rather. In a good way. This week we got 10 new team members on board, which reflects where we’re at: we are in full-on research and development mode. Currently we are researching social networks, film festivals, online and offline distributors and distribution channels, blogs and streaming platforms (amongst others), in order to analyze [...]
