Variety’s “The Circuit” column revealed the news that renowned animator and multimedia artist Takashi Murakami will show his short animation piece Planting the Seeds at Cinevegas on June 16th. Murakami is the man responsible for hundreds of wacky googly-eyed mushroom creations, including a 2003 installation at Rockefeller Center (pictured above).What Variety didn’t mention is that […]

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Our friend Mike Jones at Variety wrote a nice piece on today’s Super High Me announcement.
This is the kind of alternative distribution news that defines SXSW.
Announced at the film’s SXSW screening, B-Side, Red Envelope and Screen Media Films have partnered to distribute Michael Blieden’s stoner doc, “Super High Me,” where the director documents comedian Doug […]

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Anne Thompson, Variety columnist and author of the widely read Thompson on Hollywood blog wrote a great story yesterday (and not just great because B-Side is featured) on the challenges of online distribution. A companion piece to her must-read pre-Sundance story “Sundance Shoppers Beware,” today’s story is titled “Frustrated indies seek web distrib’n: But […]

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As April comes to a close, B-Side winds down the biggest month ever for our Festival communities. In addition to major returning partners the Atlanta Film Festival and the Philadelphia Film Festival, this year we added the largest North American doc fest and market, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.
This year’s festival has […]

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Are you attending next week’s SXSW Film Festival? If so, you need to know there is another side to your SXSW Film Festival experience.
We at B-Side - the pioneering distributor and online marketplace for independent films - invite you to put down your printed program and find your next favorite film at sxsw.bside.com - the […]

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