Have you ever found yourself faking a trip to the restroom to check your email on your phone or slept with your laptop? Tiffany Shlain’s documentary, “Connected,” explores this phenomenon and what it means to be connected in the 21st century.
YouTube prankster Jack Vale shares a few prankster tricks of the trade, along with video tidbits from his everyday life, on his Jack Vale Live YouTube channel. In his latest video, Jack teaches us how to film pranks!
Today a video that is both disgusting and awesome at the same time is going viral to promote Steven Soderbergh’s latest film—‘Contagion’. The film, which stars Matt Damon, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet, is about a deadly disease so, of course, what better way to promote it than with…bacteria!
Thanks to a new partnership with Movieclips.com, you can now watch all of your favorite movie scenes on YouTube in HD. Find out more after the jump.
It’s finally here, folks—the premiere of Kevin MacDonald and Ridley Scott’s amazing YouTube Documentary, Life In A Day. The documentary hits theaters for a sneak preview on July 24, exactly one year after thousands of YouTubers from around the globe shot and submitted videos to be a part of the film.
Hey film buffs! Can’t make it to New York City for the 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival? Not to worry—YouTube’s got you covered. Starting today and running through May 17 you can check out short films from present and past Tribeca Film Festivals in the YouTube Screening Room.
Him, Her and Them isn’t just a short film—it’s an interactive, multi-scene social experience that immerses you in the world of the protagonist, lets you add your own twists and comments to the plot line, and even brings your friends into the picture.
The debut of the 2011 Tribeca (Online) Film Festival offers a chance for film enthusiasts from all over the world to experience a film festival, utilizing the latest digital video and web technology. The concept is to “deliver an immersive, interactive experience unlike any other, re-contextualizing Festival content and presentation.”
Dame Elizabeth Taylor died this morning at the age of 79. Liz Taylor was one of the few surviving actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood film. We decided to pay tribute with a list of 10 videos to remember her by.
Kickstarter, the startup that helps projects find funding through crowd sourcing, has hooked up with the Sundance Institute to help fund independent film projects.
Many indie films have already gotten financial backing on Kickstarter, including at least five that were shown at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The company also maintained a presence at the festival, with co-founder Yancey Strickler holding a series of filmmaker workshops.
Starting next month, Sundance will be picking plays, documentaries, feature films, shorts, and other projects from affiliated artists, and using Kickstarter to gather official backing from alumni and other film fans. The projects will also be featured on Sundance.org.
“Expect the first projects from this collaboration in the coming weeks. We’re looking forward to them,” wrote Strickler on the company blog.
Kickstarter has been on a roll since launching in 2009. More and more ambitious projects are pulling in respectable levels of funding. For example, back in December a project to make an iPod Nano watch raised nearly $1 million.
Kickstarter takes a 5% cut of all funds raised, has been used to fund everything from films and music to hardware projects and video games.
