What it means to be Independent

At a time when independent artists in the music industry have more power and control over their careers than ever before, "What is INDIE?" tries to determine just what it really means to be 'indie'.

In defining what it means to be 'indie', as well as looking at the changing landscape in the music industry, the film ends up being a rallying cry for indie artists, and has been hailed as 'inspiring' and 'empowering' by artists worldwide.


The film features interviews with indie music experts including Panos Panay (Founder of Sonicbids), Derek Sivers (Founder of CD Baby) and Suzanne Glass (Founder of Indie-Music.com), as well as with 20 artists including Ember Swift and Paul Cargnello.

What It Mean To Be Independent


Link to video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rLLqdnGwqQ

Fans Of Film Open Communication With Filmmakers

Hey Sean
Thanks for signing up for our newsletter.
Glad to have you on board as we move toward a new way of distributing content to the world.
I think we've both seen more filmmakers turning to the web for distribution, and more sites capitalizing on that.
Our goal is to empower filmmakers with DIY ability's, putting filmmakers first in business for themselves, further facilitating the transition of the indi film movement by providing tools, services, consulting for the DIYers, at the same time providing locations like Fans Of Film to showcase and promote their films

I'm currently working with The Filmmakers Channel to promote indie distribution and filmmakers
using a paypal video player from Movenetwork a streaming video provider.

I'm also in the progress of launching and building a new up to date trendy site for Fans Of Film that will support more video platforms, with better profiling, more functions for both filmmakers and fans, community integration and a store for filmmakers to sell posters and DVD

Michael, Glad to meet you too!

It's good to hear other filmmakers are moving towards the Internet as a distribution model. There's a lot of things happening with TIVO and Amazon and other online distributors like Jamon that are going to make it easier to create and distribute media. I can't wait to see what you are putting together.

I live near Chicago and I've decided to try to make that one of my goals and help others make that push towards the Internet. I'm worried people up here think youtube is what is meant by the Internet and they don't take it that seriously. Not to mention it's not a silver screen. For me I'm at the point where I don't care what size screen people watch my work on, just as long as they watch and hopefully like. I truly see this as the future for filmmakers and really a lot of content creators.

I'm all for developing tools that enables small and independent filmmakers to have paths to get their movies in front of as many eyeballs as they can.

I had picked up an issue of "Indie Slate" a few weeks ago and was surprised how many stories there were of people who have their film made and was trying to get it on the festival circuit and trying to get theatrical distribution. Some of these films had sat there for 2 or 3 years... All I could think about was what a waste. You've spent all this time to make something and you could have had this on the Internet, found fans, figured out a way to make money and helped get interest in yourself and your cast not to mention your next project. (this is going to be a subject of a blog post in the future)

Here are some groups I've started up that I hope will build and help help promote this idea. I'm looking for filmmakers to see if they were interested in blogging about their projects plus I think it would help them get into this new web 2.0 era. It's all got to start somewhere. I've just launched them so they are just getting started.

This one you've already seen.
http://united-pixels.com/
This is the social site to try to bring local artists together.
http://unitedpixels.ning.com/

I'm starting up this podcast to promote media being created in the Midwest and how to take advantage of the new tools out there. We are interested in talking to all content creators but want to focus on creators in the Midwest or at least areas that are not traditionally thought of where this media is coming from.

http://midwestmedianow.com/.

Didn't mean to overwhelm you with all kinds of links and ideas. Just really excited to hear what you're putting together. Thanks again for following me on twitter and I look forward to following your progress.

Good luck with everything. I'll keep in touch.

SEAN

Thanks Sean for your great feed back,
we think alike, sounds like your on the right track keep up the good work.
Look forward to making this journey with you and all the other filmmakers that will take control of their futures,
and move to web distribution. Fill free to drop me a line anytime.
Make sure you put up your profile on filmmakershelp.com with a link to your site
I have some great people their with over a 100 members and I just started the forum 2 mouths ago.
I half to delete spammers everyday lot of work no pay but I believe in what I'm doing
Thanks again Michael
PS if it's ok I may post your letter on one of my blogs


michael@filmmakershelp.com
phone 505-934-7592
filmmakershelp.com

Feel free to use the letter however you want. If you need and extra blog here and there let me know.

You know I really started digging deep into this about 2 years ago. For some reason I thought I missed the boat but the more I find out the more I realize everyone is still trying to figure this out. Hopefully the smaller groups will be quicker at making changes and moving with the flow.

talk to you soon,
SEAN

Good morning Sean
Its been a year for me, but things are moving faster.
I spoke on the topic of web distribution about a year ago to a local nonprofit film group here in Albuquerque, the response at that time was less than enthusiastic. I spoke to that same group 2 mouths ago, and it was like night and day. were in for a great future, but it's still going to be a slow process given the powers that Have worked very hard to keep us in the dark ages, and we mustn't forget those that came before us like Dave Stewart from Eurythmics. He tried this back in 1995 with a site called the slyfi channel, he had some great artist believing they could have their own TV shows on the web. To say the least the world wasn't ready.
sincerely Michael
PS signed up to your forum see you there and around web, where the world gets smaller and the net gets bigger

michael@filmmakershelp.com
phone 505-934-7592
filmmakershelp.com



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Fans Of Film Letter To A Producer

By Michael Palombo
Thanks Nick for your interest in our projects and the possible collaborative networking and development of both our projects.

Watching you help artist over the years including myself, staying committed to the arts has been a great inspiration to all of us in the arts thats you’ve touched. As we both have become seasoned in our dreams and watching each other grow, I fill a mutual respect and gratitude for each other that makes me believe we can be a rising tide for each, and those around us.

I believe that what we’re working separately “is the missing part of the other” Your working more with music network, and I’m working more in the film network, for online distribution.

In my opinion if we’re to combine our efforts and resource in a way that promotes not just music and film, but all the arts in general. We could make a difference much sooner in developing a viable market and show-case for artist via the web and public venues.

Over the last year I’ve promoted independent distribution via the web, with a forum filmmakershelp.com. This forum along with a handful of social networks, I’ve been able to become valuable asset to establishing and helping other media networks grow and develop as in Thefilmmakerschannel.net and the martialaerts-channel.com

All this has lead me to develop a network called Fans Of Film/fansoffilm.com, that in my opinion has the right logo and branding, and will soon have the right web-design and database, to make the next step in providing a place for artist to show-case and distribute work in a way that puts artist first, and pays artist first.

There are many ways to create revenue, without trying to profit from the sale of content provided by artist. YouTube is a good example of what giving it away can do. But in this case we will provide paid for services, like paypal video integration, and web design for the do it yourselfer. We’ll also seek revenue threw subscription based models as aspect of deferent programs become viable and valuable. We will also seek sponsorship with other networks/companies that we deem worthy causes to sponsor and promote ourselves.


http://fansoffilm.com is currently a blog network with the future plans of developing a database that will give you the ability to set up a profile, upload digital media content, share content and ideas for free. With an in-house social network, and outside social networking links and widgets. also provide payed services for monetizing content via downloads, DVD, paypal pay-per-view video on-demand. Off site services for empowering artist with self distribution using their own website/blogs, social networks and SEO services.

Some of my social profiles
myspace.com/fansoffilm
http://www.youtube.com/user/fansoffilm
http://twitter.com/Fansoffilm
find me on facebook

My forum
http://filmmakershelp.com

A quick note about Twitter

A quick note about Twitter I seem to be spending all my time there these days. For those of you not aware, Twitter is not just another tool in the internet of social networking, it's really is a small business. You have to run things as such, I've recently realized how much of a benefit Twitter can be.

On the surface, Twitter is an "update" tool used to keep you, your family, friends and colleagues in the loop of each others lives. You can post picture links, articles or gossip you just read, are how much you like this and not that. You can update via the web, a third-party application like TweetDeck, or from your phone (sms or an application like TinyTwitter).

But from a networking standpoint Twitter is a gold mine. If you follow the right people, you not only have the opportunity to talk with people in the same field, you'll find blogs on marketing and the web that you may not otherwise come across. I've bookmarked a dozen articles in the last week alone, that have valuable insight and information on how to market your business in today's market. I've met other filmmakers, and media networks.

I'm excited about the opportunity that Twitter has opened up for me, although I wish the site came with hourly pay

Find me fansoffilm.com or fansoffilm Twitter

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By Michael Palombo
Online theaters vs. walk-in theaters and the future of

Online theaters are popping up with sites like jaman.com, thefilmmakerschannel.net, outlawfilmchannel.com and future sites like your very own fansoffilm.com. The list is growing as if there was a movement toward Internet distribution for filmmaker’s. Well yeaa! and can walk-in theaters keep up.

Clue in filmmakers and fans. The content is growing every day on the Internet, I repeat growing” So if you’re a filmmaker you should be putting your content up before it’s too late. What that means for fans, is new content is being added to the Internet every day, and more fans, seeking new content on the Internet.

So yes there is a film movement online, and filmmakers are finding all kinds of venues to market themselves and their films. The big question, is what is the best way? One word independent! Yes independent and stay that way no matter what netflix offers or any other for that matter. You would be stupid to sale-out now, when the future is here for indie labels. Custom paypal video services like the one filmmakershelp.com provides. That’s embeddable anywhere, that means viral video. It also means the filmmaker gets paid first no matter where is video might be on the web. I mean think about it if your video goes viral you could have thousands of people pay-per-viewing you film all at the same time, and you get paid first, and you make all the money.

This is what I predict for the future of online theaters. The most popular ones of course will be the ones with the most content, and best design. But filmmakers beware of the cost to putting your film on any distribution site/theater site. I see a future trend toward independent labeling and distribution. So I believe sites that supports different I-frames/video players, and is free for a filmmaker to put up a profile and distribute his or her movie from that online theater, those will be the most popular for filmmakers. Theaters can make its revenue from sponsored ads, and even membership dews, for those more popular sites “But not of the filmmakers” Sites that pay you first. That’s an independent online theater that truly supports “art/indie films” putting the filmmaker first, paying the filmmaker first. That will be the future of online theaters.
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Now maybe filmmakers will start getting the idea, that they can bypass the old distribution
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YouTube to Show Full-Length Films by Year End?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008;
-- Jordan McCollum |

The most popular video site on the web, YouTube has long been in negotiations with movie studios to stream full-length feature films. And while there are still a lot of details to be hammered out, sources say that the deal could be complete in thirty to ninety days, according to CNET reports today.

Among the major sticking points, as with everything else on YouTube, is finding the right way to monetize full-length films. According to two studio sources, YouTube parent Google is insistent upon one particular form, though they didn’t say whether that was preroll, postroll or overlays. And of course, there’s still the issue of balancing enough advertising to make it worthwhile to the site and the studio without driving away the viewers.

And here’s something I never thought I’d say: YouTube’s major competition in this area will come from none other than Hulu. Hulu has totally pwned come to dominate the long-form video market online, with high quality streaming. As CNET points out:

A showdown between Hulu and the 3-year-old YouTube was inevitable. Consider that Hulu, the joint video venture formed by NBC Universal and News Corp., attracts only a fraction of the 80 million people who visit YouTube each month, but Hulu still managed to generate nearly the same revenue in its first year in business, according to reports.

Naturally, that strength for YouTube—audience size—is a big reason why the studios have turned to YouTube instead of Hulu.

There is a little bit of precedent for the YouTube deals as well. In July, YouTube announced a partnership with Canadian film company Lionsgate. This partnership yielded film previews from Lionsgate with links to purchase the full-length film for download.

What do you think—will YouTube become the long-form streaming video destination, will they split the market with Hulu, or will the deal never materialize?

Fans of Film, moving to web

Written by Janko Roettgers

Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 12:00 AM PT

5 Reasons to Finally Ditch Cable

How many times have you opened up your monthly bill from Comcast or Time Warner and thought, that’s it, I’m ditching my cable — only to keep on paying? Well the time has come. With countless ways to watch your favorite shows online, ditching cable has never been easier. And with the economic crisis tightening its grip, there’s never been a better time to save some money.

Chances are there’s already a line-up of customers at your cable company’s local office looking to returning their Motorola boxes. The Wall Street Journal this week did, after all, declare that being off the cable grid is now socially acceptable. As much as 20 percent of all TV viewers watch shows online, the paper reported, and half of those people don’t watch TV at all anymore. Still not convinced? No worries, we have five good reasons to finally cancel your cable subscription.

1. The fundamentals of our economy are screwed. Seriously, do you want to keep sending hundreds of dollars per year to your cable company while your retirement fund tanks? Four out of five American households pay an average of $70 a month for cable or satellite TV, according to the WSJ. Do you really want to be one of them?
2. There are a ton of ads. Sure, we’re willing to sit through a few of them, preferably entertaining ones, to get content for free. But network and cable TV are increasingly oversaturated with them. Hulu & Co., on the other hand, have far fewer ads. A typical half-hour show features eight minutes of ads on TV, but only two minutes online. That’s six minutes you can spend looking at web sites like ours, making our advertisers happy.
3. Cable boxes suck. The simple truth is that cable companies are used to competing with pretty much no one, which is why their technology is horribly outdated. The web is full of complaints about Comcast’s DVR, and even newer boxes like Verizon’s FIOS HD DVR don’t stand a chance against TiVo’s interface. On the other hand, there are tons of new and cheap devices that bring online TV into the living room. The soon-to-be-opened-up Roku box is only $99, and it’s easier than ever to download movies through your TiVo, XBox or Apple TV.
4. There are so many other options. Hulu, NBC Direct, Amazon, the iTunes Store, Joost and Netflix Streams will all let you watch TV shows and movies free or very cheap. As the WSJ noted, 90 percent of all network shows and 20 percent of all cable shows are available online. Sure, there are some hold-outs, and networks like Showtime generally don’t make shows like Weeds available until after the end of the season. Some of our shadier friends tell us that you can always find everything right away on those torrent sites, but we of course wouldn’t know anything about that.
5. Hulu can save your marriage. People tend to argue that online TV is inferior because you can’t watch it on your living room tube. That tends to be true for most people, but it can also be a good thing. Chances are you and your spouse are busy web workers, which means you’ll both be hammering away on your notebooks while The Daily Show is running in the background. You might as well be sitting in different rooms. Remember the times when watching TV used to be a shared experience? You can go back to that. Just cancel cable, turn off the TV and cuddle up in bed watching Hulu. You’ll thank us later.