On 27th April 2009 YouTube announced in it’s blog that:
‚Luc Besson’s and Yann-Arthus Bertrand’s 90 minute full-length film, “Home,” will exclusively be available online on YouTube for English, French, Spanish and German–speaking countries beginning June 5 — just in time for the 37th World Environment Day.’
With their documentary, aerial photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand and [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
‘Home’ – online release for a good cause
TriBeCa shorts on YouTube
If you cannot be in New York for the TriBeCa Film Festival (like me this year; unfortunately I have not mastered the art of being in various places simultaneously just yet), you can catch some of the shorts in the YouTube Screening Room. I quite enjoyed The Confession: it’s like a joke you’d tell your [...]
Baby Mama
Remember that movie last year? It was the opening film at TriBeCa (where FilmTiki’s Matthew Kerr is at the moment – tweet him @matthewkerr if you want to get hold of him). It was a mainstream comedy, with the wonderfully hilarious Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. It was reasonably successful. I want to find out [...]
Social Media use amongst Baby Boomers is rising
Something I get a lot when consulting or holding workshops are raised eyebrows as to the target audience for Social Media. Lots of people think that either only Teens or Twens or geeks with heaps of time to waste are using Facebook et. al. Well, that’s simply not true – something I try to show [...]
Internet bigger than TV
Soon… in Europe at least.
Just before Easter I thought I’d share with you this little report from Microsoft, that states that the Internet will overtake TV as the most consumed media by mid-2010. That’s pretty soon. ReadWriteWeb has a nice little rundown of the main facts here.
Interestingly enough, they don’t think that online video will [...]
Panel picks from this year’s SXSW
Like Scott Kirsner posted in the Cinematech Blog this year’s SXSW came up with some interesting panels for the indie filmmaker. Unfortunately FilmTiki couldn’t be there, but luckily there are some excellent blog reports and videos we’ve found that come directly from the source.
You’ll find a great summary on Self Distribution Not All by Yourself [...]












