Located in the heart of the Canadian Prairies, Edmonton is a city that loves movies, and is reported to be the number one per capita movie rental city in Canada. The Edmonton International Film Festival satisfies Edmontonians’ insatiable desire for quality cinema each autumn by delivering a slate of outstanding independent films from around the [...]

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In June, B-Side launched the national screening program for the remarkable film about the power of music called CHOPS. As a result, CHOPS has screened at music and film festivals including Angel City Jazz Festival and the Maryland Film Festival throughout the summer. With a new school year just around the corner, B-Side has been [...]

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The Independent Television Festival, which B-Side first partnered with in 2008, is a unique event that encourages change in conventional television and the growth of artistic expression in TV and new media. This year’s fest runs Friday, July 31st through Thursday, August 6th in Los Angeles and is packed with independently-produced pilots, international shows, web [...]

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Festival directors who use B-Side’s Festival Genius service for their fest web sites know that they should be encouraging more user participation from their audience, but they don’t know quite how to go about it. Here, then, are ten practical ways to solicit feedback from your audience and to foster a healthy environment of user [...]

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Here’s last week’s B-Side Call for Entries Newsletter, highlighting some really cool B-Side partner festivals!
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Royal Flush Festival
The team that brought you the EVIL CITY FILM FEST and ROYAL FLUSH MAGAZINE proudly present, ROYAL FLUSH FESTIVAL, a fresh force in the independent film, art and music scene. Evil City Film Fest last screened over 100 indie [...]

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We asked you to prove that brevity is the soul of wit. These 140-character reviews submitted via Twitter drove the point home.
Grand prize winner @rooftopfilms won two passes to the Atlanta Film Festival and a $50 Alamo Drafthouse gift card with this review of Winnebago Man:
YouTube’s World’s Angriest Man gets in touch w/ inner misanthrope;
softens [...]

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The 2009 Festival Communities for these festivals launched this week!
The Oxford Film Festival
The annual film festival for Oxford, Mississippi celebrates its sixth year with a slate of over ninety films. Included in the roster is the world premiere of Crude Independence, a documentary about the recent oil boom in North Dakota.
“Once again we’ve got [...]

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SCOUTS ARE CANCELLED

New to B-Side is the stark and inventive documentary “Scouts are Cancelled” that uniquely documents the writings of Canadian poet John Stiles and visually interprets his commentary on small town life in rural Nova Scotia. Recently screened at celebrated B-Side partner festival Hot Docs, the film received a glowing analysis in the current [...]

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Well, this is officially the first time the word "Boffo" has been used in conjunction with B-Side. Richard Horgan of FilmStew wrote a nice piece last week on B-Side’s Roll Your Own Screening program for Super High Me. The very generous subtitle reads:
Although Super High Me’s grassroots exploits are of an entirely different [...]

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