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5 Things We Learned After Our Film Went Viral
A look back at lessons learned and mistakes made when Dolphin Lover went viral after our premiere at Slamdance.
Wave of Buzz for Dolphin Lover
I'd say it's been a hell of a week, but the week isn't over yet. Last Thursday was the second and last screening of Dolphin Lover at Slamdance. Shortly after that we received an honorable mention for short documentary from the jury, which was awesome....
The Free Film Distribution Experiment of Bots High
Great film! - Handwritten note on a festival rejection letter The above note sums up the festival experience of my feature film Bots High quite well. A film that people who see, love, yet didn't get much traction on the festival circuit. It played at some festivals,...
I’ve Got a Finished Movie, Got Rejected from SXSW, and Other Adventures From These Past Months
Damn, it's been long since my last post. Too long. It's not from forgetting - I have dry erase boards and notecards full of blog posts ideas. And Andrew and I have had countless conversations that end with, "This should be a Coffee and Celluloid Post." They just never...
Interactive Zombie Adventure – Very Clever
This is very clever - it's a zombie adventure story that gives you choices along the way, using the YouTube annotations to link to another video that reveals the outcome of the path you choose. Does the adventure continue, or does your choice lead you to become zombie...
Meetup Everywhere – Organize an Audience for Your Film
Meetup is a site and tool that allows you to create a group and organize real life meetups (remember those?). Usually these were location based (like Miami Movie Makers) so if you had a company or movement, you couldn't really enable independent groups to organize and...
TechCrunch Disrupt
I'm at TechCrunch Disrupt right now, watching Charlie Rose asking questions about the future of tech. I'm here to keep an eye out for new technologies that can be used to produce, market, distribute, and engage audiences for films and filmmakers. So far SCVNGR has...
Flattr Beta Testing
A few weeks ago I wrote about the new site Flattr, which is a new venture to try to monetize blog content. Basically it's a button like a Digg button, you click on stuff you like and depending on how many things you Flattr, the monthly amount of money that's in your...