Monthly Archives: October 2009

FilmTiki’s online week in review – part 17

Who is The Audience For This Movie?
The founder of production company filmutopia, Clive Davies-Frayne, is contemplating the ways to go about finding and building audiences for a movie. Very nice read!
Video-on-demand now 27% of Internet traffic: Study
Videobusiness posted new figures on the state of Video-on-demand: referring to a report by Sandvine 27% of the Internet [...]

FilmTiki’s online week in review – part 16

Studios adjust to digital distribution
The future is now! Studios are facing it and are changing business models to better cater to digital channels, says Variety.
Broadcast shows reach auds online
Another interesting Variety article shows how broadcasters use the Internet as an important tool for keeping their audience engaged.
Movie studios open their ears to online buzz
Seriously, a [...]

Online Marketing for Filmmakers

Why should you market your film? Well, that’s obvious – to get people to see it (and hopefully make some money on the way). But why should you market it online? Watch this:

You can learn how to market your film by using affordable online channels at our workshop in Brighton this November. Our own Iris [...]

FilmTiki’s online week in review – part 15

Three Cool Ideas: Streaming from set, OpenIndie, and “14 Islands”
Cinematech posted some nice stuff about movie marketing a few days ago. I like this live streaming idea very much What do you think?
FilmTiki at Power to the Pixel
FilmTiki’s Iris Lamprecht was at the PttP Festival in London last week and blogged about it. [...]

Update: Bud Spencer – The Documentary

In our blog post about the importance of having a website we praised Austrian director Karl-Martin Pold for his enthusiasm to use the Internet for filmmaking and film marketing purposes. His documentary They called him Spencer, a movie about the Italian actor Bud Spencer aka Carlo Pedersoli, started as a written concept for a master [...]

Power to the Pixel, Day 2

Today (well, yesterday to be precise, but it’s before bedtime…) was a day of workshops at PttP. Unfortunately, as so often, I couldn’t stay for all of them, as I had people to meet in between things, but what I have seen was really good. Here are some of my impressions.
Read the fine print
This morning [...]

Power to the Pixel – Day 1 review

Though the day isn’t quite over yet, it will be very soon for me, as I have more meetings this late afternoon… I have thoroughly enjoyed the speakers today, especially the filmmakers who spoke so passionately about their successes. Fellow Kiwi Lizzie Gillett put it aptly: “It’s so easy!”, she said, referring to how they [...]

The Age of Stupid at Power to the Pixel

The Age of Stupid Co-Producer Lizzie Gillett and filmmaker Franny Armstrong spoke about the successful launch of their film The Age of Stupid (which I’m sure you’ve heard about by now).
They started off their wonderfully fast-paced talk with the story of how Franny got into filmmaking in the first place. Her dad is a filmmaker, so [...]

Ted Hope at Power to the Pixel

Ted Hope, Producer & Co-Founder of This is that corporation, was the first speaker at today’s conference. He talked about how storytelling is changing. Here is a summary of his main points.
Cinema in its current concept is no longer the complete and representative art form for the world which we inhabit. It is not a [...]

Streaming Power to the Pixel

If you wanna see what I see, check out the live stream here. You can watch the whole day. Not sure about tomorrow, but certainly not Friday as the Think Tank on Friday is an invitation only event, but they will post the outcome of their discussions online afterwards.
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Live-Blogging from Power to the Pixel 2009

I am at my first Power to the Pixel this year (this time last year I was in Vancouver and couldn’t be here, but now that I reside just down on the coast it is easy to come along), and I am quite looking forward to two days of digital ramblings.
For those of you who [...]

Filmmakers on Twitter #02 – UK and Ireland

A few weeks ago we started a list here with Austrian filmmakers, film supporters and movies on Twitter (including their original bio). Here’s now what we’ve found in our Twitter-account for the UK and Ireland. This time we used a service called TweepML, which enables users to simply add all of FilmTiki’s recommended Twitter-accounts in [...]

Update: Lederhosenzombies-Trailer skyrocketed

Last week our friends from Lederhosenzombies – the movie – really discovered the power of community. After uploading their teaser on YouTube and promoting it basically just using Facebook they reached 2,000 views, which remained at that level for the next month. Two weeks ago though, something surprising happened: their views on YouTube skyrocketed from [...]

FilmTiki’s online week in review – part 14

FilmTiki summarises what happened in the online sphere in it’s weekly published blog post ‘FilmTiki’s online week in review’.

FilmTiki’s Online Week in review – Part 13

A bit late this time, but here’s our weekly online review for September 28- October 4-2009
How would you feel about a producer credit?
Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine, writes about a new movie project called ‘how would you feel’ and how the producers try to raise money by selling credits. Seems that selling credits is getting [...]