I am really happy to announce that Glitner finally has a new home adapted to its needs … Here is the press release; stay tuned for the follow-up! Press Release Paris May 27th 2010 Paris based Independent Pan European Digital Association (IPEDA) has acquired all of the intellectual property of the Glitner Project, including its [...]
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VoD, DVD, Piracy …
Just saw this and thought it was good food for thought … (click on it to make it bigger)
Social Media in 2010
Two months into 2010, if you took the TIME to browse the Internet … you probably noticed that left and right, a whole lot of people are getting worked up on social media as being the next big thing … What does it mean for the Film Industry … and should it be taken seriously? [...]
Evolutions in film Financing (4/4)
In partnership with the Biz and Tech Lab The day of conferences was concluded with a panel dedicated to the evolutions in film financing, moderated by producer Eric Neve (La Chauve-Souris) and a panel composed of Gael Nouaille (Sales at Wild Bunch), Vicente Canales (Director of Sales – Filmax) Gustavo Ferrada (Head of Cinema – [...]
The legal offers and the fight against piracy (3/4)
In partnership with The Biz and Tech Lab First of all, Rafael Cabrera, in charge of promotion at ICAA, started by strongly asserting that Spain was the Paradise on Earth of Internet Piracy, because there is state-of-the-art technological networks and a total absence of normative laws (Spain considered that illicit sharing of content over the [...]
The 3rd Franco-Spanish Cinema Meetings organised by Unifrance (1/4)
in partnership with The Biz and Tech Lab. Unifrance organised for the third consecutive year the Franco-Spanish Cinema Meetings in Paris in order to cast light on these two markets, whose interactions are unfortunately limited, notwithstanding the reciprocal affection felt by these two countries on many accounts… Antoine de Clermont Tonnerre, Unifrance’s President, opened the [...]
Film Festivals in 2010 …
Festivals, Audience, and Social Media… Festivals are essential to the proper development and marketing of audiovisual content; they allow for professionals to scout new talent, to meet their peers, exchange and build trustworthy relationships essential to the production/monetization of a high-risk prototype industry such as filmmaking. Festivals are also increasingly becoming a platform where core [...]
Picture element … In other words … a Pixel
… in other words, the upcoming event being organised in Paris at the Forum des Images by Arte, the French Media Desk in collaboration with the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée and coordinated by Media Consulting Group. As a follow-up to the excellent Power to the Pixel, this one day event will [...]
Midnight in the (online) garden of Good and Evil…
by Pierre-Alexandre Labelle, In a ever-changing context well known to most of you visiting this blog; it seems that a fundamental (almost ethical) question remains concerning the woes and virtues of the disruptions caused by the Internet… I will not venture into bluntly asking the question: Is the Internet good or bad for filmmakers … [...]
Video On Demand Advertising Effectiveness
Screen Digest pointed out that the ad load (number of ads shown per programme) on web VoD services is approaching broadcast levels. ‘VOD on cable TV is an opt-in medium and that means viewers are engaged’ says Daisy Whitney in her New Media Minute video report: Simon McGrath, CMO of SeaChange International has said the [...]


