We have been in Berlin since late Thursday night (lots of snow delayed all the flights coming in), and it has been a cold but awesome festival so far.
On Friday we held our workshop at HomeBase, which was really good. Everybody got lots out of it. Thanks again to the HomeBase team for the brilliant [...]
You may have already seen the invite on our front page, but in case you missed it, here it goes again:
The Vienna Film Fund, in collaboration with FilmTiki, would like to invite you to a panel discussion on “New Media – New User Behaviour. Digitalisation’s Impact on the TV and Film Industry”. The event will take place [...]
If you are reading this, you will be interested in marketing your film using online channels. Because that’s what we’re about here. You may even have found out that we don’t just help you learn how to do this on our platform here, but also offline.
The next chance to learn with us LIVE is on [...]
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.
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This morning [...]
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 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, 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 [...]
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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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 [...]
Another week, another review, a day early this time… here is what grabbed our attention this week, lovingly put together for your reading pleasure!
Is Reality TV over?
UK’s Channel 4 axes Big Brother after 11 seasons. Though the show has still been commercially viable for the channel, Channel 4 feels it is time to move on. [...]
District 9 is a sci-fi thriller, produced by Peter Jackson, with a relatively low-budget (USD $ 30 Million), which also meant that the studio wasn’t gonna put that much money into marketing, and they were opting for a Cloverfield kinda viral/online marketing approach. And: it worked!…
I found something for you that will explain Social Media to you, not in plain English, but in seriously f***ing plain English. Watch this slideshow, and all your questions, doubts, fears will be answered. Well, some of them at least.
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
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I just read this article on one of my favourite resources for all things Social Media, (my third home) New Zealand-based ReadWriteWeb. And I must say that for the first time in a while I don’t fully agree, and I missed some things, that I’d like to add here.
The article is about Germany’s backwards relationship [...]
Well done, Timo! We just read that Iron Sky (we wrote about this movie before, read our article here) received the remaining €800,000.00 to from the Finnish Film Foundation as a grant, completing the €4.2 Million budget.
This is a huge budget for a Finnish movie. They have successfully been leveraging their online audience to gain [...]
This is nothing new – letting audiences organise screenings. Four Eyed Monsters did it, anyone can organise a screening for Sita Sings the Blues, and it is something we recommend to every filmmaker. But now this is gaining so much traction that there is a whole new site devoted to this: UK-based IndieScreenings.
With IndieScreenings, audiences [...]
A couple of weeks ago our own Matthew Kerr sent me this video of Seth Godin talking about social media marketing, actually, but not really. Watch it! If you haven’t quite gotten your head around Social Media and why they exist, and what the whole point is, this will really clear some things up. And [...]
As reported about an hour ago, the Austrian radio station FM4 had a short feature on the effects that the Palm d’Or might have on the local film industry. Here are my summarising notes, and it was pretty much what I’d suspected:
This is the first Palm d’Or in Austrian film history to go to an [...]
As you probably know, this year’s Palm d’Or went to Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s film The White Ribbon yesterday. How does this affect the Austrian film industry though? Will the euphoria result in a funding boost for the Austrian film industry? I am not sure… but if you speak German, you may wanna tune into [...]
As you may have gathered from our blog and our Twittering, we had an interesting panel on online film marketing and distribution yesterday. Wolfgang is going to post a summary with some clips in the coming days, but I just wanted to share a statement that was repeated again and again yesterday towards the end [...]
If you are on Twitter you can follow our Twitter stream right now. Wolfgang is tweeting like a maniac from Museumsquartier from our event that we are doing in collaboration with the Film Fonds Wien.
I talked before, Cay Wesnigk is talking about online distribution right now, and the audience seems captivated! After a short break [...]
