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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With the writers strike finally over, it seems like as good a time as any to get back to the blog. Keeping up with a blog takes time and discipline, and frankly we’ve been busy for the past several months. The next several months will be even busier, though, and I can think […]
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Two years ago I started b-side because I wanted to bring great independent films to an audience beyond film festivals. But building a web site where filmmakers can sell their films is only one part of the puzzle. The real trick is helping people find something they’re going to love, even though they’ve […]
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Well, we’ve had an exciting week here at b-side. Last Friday, Four Eyed Monsters made history by becoming the first feature film to be posted in its entirety on YouTube, and featured on the YouTube home page. As I write this, FEM is closing in on 400,000 views.
This raises some interesting questions. […]
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After last month’s big announcement from Apple and EMI, Amazon becomes the latest major e-tailer to get a clue by announcing their upcoming DRM-free music store. According to CEO Jeff Bezos, “Our MP3-only strategy means all the music that customers buy on Amazon is always DRM-free and plays on any device.”
This is […]
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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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200th SCREENING EVENT TONIGHT - PROGRAM EXTENDED
Tonight in Hollywood, we reach an amazing milestone - our 200th grassroots screening event of Before the Music Dies since we launched the program only 4+ months ago. Like so many other events, the film will be screening tonight at a cool club, accompanied by live music…with all proceeds […]
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DOWNLOAD B4MD - DRM-FREE
Yesterday, B-Side announced a partnership with Indie911 that allows fans to purchase downloads of Before the Music Dies without DRM copy-protection technology…through Indie911’s new hoooka media player. The deal gives you two options for purchasing downloads:
For $3.99, you can download a small-format MPEG-4 file for playback on an iPod or any […]
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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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