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Matthew Barney and the Future of Film Financing

For a beginning filmmaker taking stock of the legal situation in which moving images find themselves today, there are two discreet dangers. They arrive at opposite ends of the “production value” scale that ranges from DIY to Hollywood. The first is the prohibition (or the perception of prohibition—a chilling effect) on the use of appropriation. The second is the economic threat of piracy and the wane of traditional, controlled distribution methods such as the film theater on which the Hollywood business model is predicated. You can read the rest on Tisch Film Review.

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Amazon buys Withoutabox.com

Withoutabox.com

Withoutabox.com, a service which many film makers use to submit their films to multiple festivals has been bought by IMDb, owned by Amazon. Amazon is planning to take on Itunes by launching their own rival service. With Itunes launching new services such as movie rentals, this could be a move by Amazon to add new channels to their artillery as well as giving independent film makers new ways of getting their film seen.

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Steal This Film

Steal This Film, a documentary about online piracy is available from their website.