NEW YORK, NY – Today an enthusiastic crowd of indie filmmakers and media professionals gathered at 92Y Tribeca for the Tribeca Film Festival’s Future of Film lunch series. Kickstarter’s Elisabeth Holm spoke on a topic near and dear to every filmmaker’s heart: how to fund and promote a film.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
YouTube, Ridley Scott and Emirates are giving online filmmakers, video makers and story makers the opportunity to go all the way to the Venice Film Festival, and even win $500,000 towards their next great project and the opportunity to work with Ridley Scott and a world class production team.
It looks like comedy website CollegeHumor is taking a leap from your computer screen onto the big screen. Steven Zeitchik of the LA Times reports that College Humor is “making a foray into the film business.”
There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned compilation video to help you relive the past year, remember all the major trends, popular movies, viral videos, music and more. That’s why we’ve put together a list of 11 of the best 2011 year in review videos so that you can look back on the last year, remember all the good times (and the not-so-pleasant ones) as you prepare to ring in 2012.
A documentary film telling the story of Improv Everywhere is in the works, but they need your help to get the film off the ground so they’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the project
With 48 minutes of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute it can be hard to put content out there that really stands out. Maybe you want to create something a bit more professional looking but just don’t have the budget for expensive equipment. Not to worry! A new infographic from Wistia and Column Five reveals some great do-it-yourself tips for the cash-strapped filmmaker.
One Day On Earth, an online community with the unique mission of helping document the World’s Story, will be filming in every country in the world this Friday, 11/11/11, for the second time. Last year on 10/10/10 they did the same thing, shooting footage everywhere on earth on a single day to edit together into a documentary film in order to create a better perspective of our global community through video.
When well-known Dutch Filmmaker Eddy Terstall wanted to raise money for a new short film called DEAL he decided to turn to his fans online. To entice people to donate, Terstall created mini movies based on tweets from people that donated money. He called it Eddy’s TwitFlicks.
Hey film buffs! YouTube has announced a new community designed just for you. The YouTube Movie Lovers’ Community is a forum where movie lovers are invited to discuss all things movies.
What movies are you most looking forward to seeing this fall? Contagion? The Muppets? How about Twilight: Breaking Dawn? Social media research company Fizziology has put together a list of the top 10 most-buzzed about fall movies.
