Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age

Morgan Spurlock: "[...] the idea that we are not only filmmakers but also film marketers, and an understanding of alternative distribution outlets, namely Internet or VOD partners that a few years ago had the same air of failure and backtracking that television once did."

"With at least 35,000 feature films on the film festival circuit every year, by some estimates, very few films are going to premiere at one of the top 5 film festivals. When that happens, filmmakers need to decide what is the best launch for their film."

In the case of Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, the filmmakers decided that "some form of robust live event premiere would help to create awareness for the film in the oversaturated media landscape".

This article takes an indepth look at the things you need to consider when creating a live event première.

"I know, collective groan "yet another social network to keep up with?" Seems like there is a new one born every minute and many of them fail to get off the ground. But here is why Pinterest might be a site you should consider using for your production."

From crowd-funding to the visual language of online video, internet culture is slowly but surely seeping into independent film...

No one would have guessed that, more than a decade after "The Blair Witch Project" broke box-office records to become one the highest grossing independent films of all time, audiences would still flock to found-footage flicks.

[...] this is a list of a few great Internet Native Films in the following categories:

1) Interactive film:
You interact with it DURING the experience
2) Personalised film:
You personalise it BEFORE the experience
3) Enhanced film:
Traditional linear films, but with enhancements

Tiffany Shlain: "As a filmmaker who hardly shoots anything and is primarily into remixing and recontextualizing images, this explosion of online video was not only a much bigger candy store than I had ever dreamed of, it also completely changed the way I make films."

"Should filmmakers focus more on the word "social" and less on the word "marketing?" Sheri Candler shares some helpful tips for filmmakers in this new digital landscape."

"Many of you are already familiar with using YouTube to release trailers and clips for your film, but in the last few months YouTube relaunched their site and they made some adjustments to their analytics functionality"...

Today's film-makers regard the smartphone as more than just a replacement camera and it allows directors greater creativity than a mere script.

"High Definition and pixel-sensitive smartphones are a new platform and mean films made on them can be watched on all devices and in cinemas."

Good news! Following many reports over the last five days or so that the first-ever science fiction film to actually be filmed in space was ...

[Read more on NASA's original position @scoopit http://bit.ly/xl4BBG]

A new documentary about space tourist Richard Garriott's flight to the International Space Station is hitting theaters now, but the sci-fi movie he made aboard the orbiting lab remains under wraps...

"47 films spanning 50 years of filmmaking are channeled into a stream of images that attests to an inimitable talent: an artist who transforms the world simply by how he looks at it through a camera."