The heart and soul of the Vimeo platform is its popular Staff Pick channel, for which a four person in-house curation team highlights the best short-form content on Vimeo. The Staff Pick laurel has become such a trusted brand it can often bring a festival-quality short — often one that has played at a major festival — from 50,000 to 200,000 views in a matter of days; it has even played a key role in launching the careers of indie filmmakers like The Daniels (“Swiss Army Man”).
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Having earlier this year celebrated its 10,000th Staff Pick, the company today announced that it is adding new layers of curation on top of the existing Staff Pick channel, including Best of the Week, Best of the Month and Premieres. Here’s a look at what those terms mean.
Best of the Month: Each month,...
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Having earlier this year celebrated its 10,000th Staff Pick, the company today announced that it is adding new layers of curation on top of the existing Staff Pick channel, including Best of the Week, Best of the Month and Premieres. Here’s a look at what those terms mean.
Best of the Month: Each month,...
- 10/5/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Vimeo has announced it is extending its flagship Staff Pick channel into a year-long online film festival and has added new laurels honoring films selected as Best of the Month and Year, plus weekly premieres. “The Vimeo Staff Pick channel represents the most progressive and imaginative filmmaking direct from our community of world class filmmakers,” said Peter Gerard, General Manager, Vimeo. “The iconic Staff Pick laurel has helped launched the careers of many filmmakers coming up through the Vimeo platform and we’re excited to continue to honor and elevate our Staff Picked filmmakers with two new levels of prestige, while also […]...
- 10/5/2016
- by Paula Bernstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Indie festival partners with Distrify on new VoD platform.
The Raindance Film Festival has launched a new Video On Demand website, Raindance Releasing, in a bid to reach out to audiences throughout the year.
The site will feature independent films from around the world, curated by the Raindance Film Festival team in the UK.
Films that will be released for the first time in the UK and Ireland on the platform include documentaries Fall And Winter, Disrupted and Soka Afrika; thrillers Monk3ys and Indebted; and dramas Mesocafe, My Destiny and Black Smoke Rising.
Raindance has partnered with online distribution platform Distrify to launch the site.
Elliot Grove, who founded Raindance in 1993 and also started the British Independent Film Awards, said: “Raindance was the first film festival to launch online festival screenings way back in 2006 so it’s always been our ambition to bring our movies online to audiences year round.
“We want to...
The Raindance Film Festival has launched a new Video On Demand website, Raindance Releasing, in a bid to reach out to audiences throughout the year.
The site will feature independent films from around the world, curated by the Raindance Film Festival team in the UK.
Films that will be released for the first time in the UK and Ireland on the platform include documentaries Fall And Winter, Disrupted and Soka Afrika; thrillers Monk3ys and Indebted; and dramas Mesocafe, My Destiny and Black Smoke Rising.
Raindance has partnered with online distribution platform Distrify to launch the site.
Elliot Grove, who founded Raindance in 1993 and also started the British Independent Film Awards, said: “Raindance was the first film festival to launch online festival screenings way back in 2006 so it’s always been our ambition to bring our movies online to audiences year round.
“We want to...
- 2/24/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
At Idfa, Distrify and the Scottish Documentary Institute have announced today a new ‘film gifting’ scheme called Pay-It-Forward.
The new initiative kicks off with the online release of Maja Borg’s Future My Love (website here), about futurist Jacque Fresco’s new economic and social model.
This scheme is a continuation of the online distributor’s ‘portable fundraiser’ project – a collaboration with Scottish Documentary Institute with backing from Nesta.
People will be able to pay a small fee to send a link to a friend or stranger to watch a film for free.
Distrify noted: “Viewers may buy for one or more people, or even an open invitation for viewers around the world to see the film if the ‘giver’ feels it is a film that should be shared and seen by many.”
Peter Gerard, CEO of Distrify, said: “This is the first time the Pay-it-Forward concept has been used for film distribution. We are excited...
The new initiative kicks off with the online release of Maja Borg’s Future My Love (website here), about futurist Jacque Fresco’s new economic and social model.
This scheme is a continuation of the online distributor’s ‘portable fundraiser’ project – a collaboration with Scottish Documentary Institute with backing from Nesta.
People will be able to pay a small fee to send a link to a friend or stranger to watch a film for free.
Distrify noted: “Viewers may buy for one or more people, or even an open invitation for viewers around the world to see the film if the ‘giver’ feels it is a film that should be shared and seen by many.”
Peter Gerard, CEO of Distrify, said: “This is the first time the Pay-it-Forward concept has been used for film distribution. We are excited...
- 11/26/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Scottish Documentary Institute (Sdi) has partnered with UK VoD service Distrify to boost viewing and fundraising around documentary I Am Breathing.
The film follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neurone disease, and premieres on Thursday (June 20) at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The festival premiere will act as a focus for a “global screening day” on June 21, with more than 130 screenings planned in over 30 countries.
A “portable fundraiser”, backed by Sdi and Distrify, will allow consumers to organise and promote their own screenings of the Sdi-produced documentary anywhere in the world.
It allows anyone who views the trailer to share the video and book their own local screening of the film. The technology allows the host of a screening to choose the size of the audience as well as purchase a screening license direct from the video player. Screening times and locations are also displayed in the...
The film follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neurone disease, and premieres on Thursday (June 20) at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The festival premiere will act as a focus for a “global screening day” on June 21, with more than 130 screenings planned in over 30 countries.
A “portable fundraiser”, backed by Sdi and Distrify, will allow consumers to organise and promote their own screenings of the Sdi-produced documentary anywhere in the world.
It allows anyone who views the trailer to share the video and book their own local screening of the film. The technology allows the host of a screening to choose the size of the audience as well as purchase a screening license direct from the video player. Screening times and locations are also displayed in the...
- 6/18/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Sheffield Doc/Fest is not only a strongly programmed showcase for international and UK documentary cinema, it also is filled with industry professionals and several panels for filmmakers and film industry professionals daily. Today's panel on "The Business of VOD" was typical fare. The panelists, Vimeo's UK-based Senior Curator Jordan McGarry, Daily Motion's Head of Content Marc Eychenne, Syndicado Inc. President Greg Rubidge, and Distrify's Peter Gerard, were joined with moderator Edward Caffrey, head of Journeyman Pictures. Some smart things were said over the course of the 90 minutes, but many questions were left unanswered, especially about how audiences actually go after content. Unlike the traditional distributors, the revenue share deals are fairly open (Vimeo is proud that it only takes 10%). But like traditional distributors, it's hard to see the numbers of how many people are actually viewing this way. There was one thing that became immediately...
- 6/13/2013
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
Under continuous pressure from cat film fans worldwide, online distributor Distrify has finally introduced a fully translated version of the Distrify player in Lingua Feline. Cats are fiercely independent creatures and this innovation allows them to select and watch films without the help of their owners for the first time in history.
"With the rising popularity of cat videos online, we realized we had to meet the demand and make the video player available in a language that our fans could understand," said Distrify's CEO Peter Gerard.
Cats around the world are now able to paw at their tablets and start streaming classic films like Cat Ladies, The Lion King, The Aristocats, Garfield, Cat People, Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Fritz the Cat, The Cat in the Hat, as well as watch the glamorous A-listers such as Blofeld’s right-hand in the Bond films, Jonesy in Alien, Snowbell in Stuart Little, Mr Bigglesworth in Austin Powers, Sassy in Homeward Bound, Cat in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Mir Jinx in Meet the Parents, Jake in The Cat From Outer Space, all from the comfort of their own litter box or sofa.
When asked for comment Bali, a film aficionado from Barnet enthusiastically said, "Meow meow meow Distrify meow. Meow, meow, awards, meow, meow, Palm Dog, meow, discrimination, meow, puurrrrrrrrr."
Distrify have curated a special collection of films in Lingua Feline
All cat lovers check out
For further information:
Distrify is the fast-growing online cinema with integrated viral marketing tools offering filmmakers and distributors the opportunity to reach audiences worldwide.
The Distrify model turns every trailer for a film into an instant VoD player allowing the customer on discovering a film to click ‘rent’ or ‘buy’. Film fans are rewarded for sharing trailers with their contacts and film critics, online publishers and film fans are able to curate their favourite film collections and earn money for their efforts. Not only does Distrify offer international distribution, but it also ensures that the majority of the revenue earned back by films is passed back to the filmmaker.
Distrify has announced a number of audience development projects in recent weeks all showing how the platform is pioneering direct-to-fan online film distribution.
Distrify is setting up an online platform for the BFI Production Board Collection which will offer audiences worldwide to classics from the collection of 300 films. Creative Scotland is using Distrify to promote and offer the Scottish Film Collection to national and international audiences. The Bangalore-based portal hometalkies.com is using Distrify to premiere films to the Indian diaspora. The Glasgow Film Theatre and the Edinburgh Filmhouse are using Distrify to explore cinema-curated Video on Demand (VoD) for a slate of six films. Distrify has provided the platform for Lgbt film distributor Wolfe Video’s WolfeOnDemand.com. Distrify is partnering The Guardian and international film distributors to offer films such as Terry’s Gilliam’s The Wholly Family.
The Distrify model and technology has been pioneered by co-founders Peter Gerard and Andy Green.
Peter Gerard is an award-winning film producer whose films played at festivals, sold for international broadcast, and downloaded tens of thousands of times. He has also specialised in Rich Internet Applications development and has designed and programmed award-winning eCommerce and eCommunity applications for large financial institutions, governmental organisations, and commercial clients. He built the website for The D-Word online community of documentary professionals and is regularly invited to speak on panels throughout Europe and the Us.
Andy Green is an award-winning film editor and producer whose experience includes promos, commercials, broadcast documentaries and short dramas. As an independent producer his films have won several awards including Best Short Documentary prizes at the Palm Springs and San Francisco film festivals. Having developed three screenplays, all of which were funded, Andy has been featured as an up-and-coming producer at the Eiff/Scottish Executive “Features Scotland” Expo.
Distrify chairman David Nicholas Wilkinson, founder of the Guerilla companies, has an award-winning track record in film/TV and theatre production; cinema/DVD/VOD/airline/TV/online distribution; book publishing, as well as event management. An award-winning actor, he has starred in film/TV/theatre productions, has produced and/or distributed almost 150 feature films and has advised on financing for more than 300 feature film projects.
"With the rising popularity of cat videos online, we realized we had to meet the demand and make the video player available in a language that our fans could understand," said Distrify's CEO Peter Gerard.
Cats around the world are now able to paw at their tablets and start streaming classic films like Cat Ladies, The Lion King, The Aristocats, Garfield, Cat People, Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Fritz the Cat, The Cat in the Hat, as well as watch the glamorous A-listers such as Blofeld’s right-hand in the Bond films, Jonesy in Alien, Snowbell in Stuart Little, Mr Bigglesworth in Austin Powers, Sassy in Homeward Bound, Cat in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Mir Jinx in Meet the Parents, Jake in The Cat From Outer Space, all from the comfort of their own litter box or sofa.
When asked for comment Bali, a film aficionado from Barnet enthusiastically said, "Meow meow meow Distrify meow. Meow, meow, awards, meow, meow, Palm Dog, meow, discrimination, meow, puurrrrrrrrr."
Distrify have curated a special collection of films in Lingua Feline
All cat lovers check out
For further information:
Distrify is the fast-growing online cinema with integrated viral marketing tools offering filmmakers and distributors the opportunity to reach audiences worldwide.
The Distrify model turns every trailer for a film into an instant VoD player allowing the customer on discovering a film to click ‘rent’ or ‘buy’. Film fans are rewarded for sharing trailers with their contacts and film critics, online publishers and film fans are able to curate their favourite film collections and earn money for their efforts. Not only does Distrify offer international distribution, but it also ensures that the majority of the revenue earned back by films is passed back to the filmmaker.
Distrify has announced a number of audience development projects in recent weeks all showing how the platform is pioneering direct-to-fan online film distribution.
Distrify is setting up an online platform for the BFI Production Board Collection which will offer audiences worldwide to classics from the collection of 300 films. Creative Scotland is using Distrify to promote and offer the Scottish Film Collection to national and international audiences. The Bangalore-based portal hometalkies.com is using Distrify to premiere films to the Indian diaspora. The Glasgow Film Theatre and the Edinburgh Filmhouse are using Distrify to explore cinema-curated Video on Demand (VoD) for a slate of six films. Distrify has provided the platform for Lgbt film distributor Wolfe Video’s WolfeOnDemand.com. Distrify is partnering The Guardian and international film distributors to offer films such as Terry’s Gilliam’s The Wholly Family.
The Distrify model and technology has been pioneered by co-founders Peter Gerard and Andy Green.
Peter Gerard is an award-winning film producer whose films played at festivals, sold for international broadcast, and downloaded tens of thousands of times. He has also specialised in Rich Internet Applications development and has designed and programmed award-winning eCommerce and eCommunity applications for large financial institutions, governmental organisations, and commercial clients. He built the website for The D-Word online community of documentary professionals and is regularly invited to speak on panels throughout Europe and the Us.
Andy Green is an award-winning film editor and producer whose experience includes promos, commercials, broadcast documentaries and short dramas. As an independent producer his films have won several awards including Best Short Documentary prizes at the Palm Springs and San Francisco film festivals. Having developed three screenplays, all of which were funded, Andy has been featured as an up-and-coming producer at the Eiff/Scottish Executive “Features Scotland” Expo.
Distrify chairman David Nicholas Wilkinson, founder of the Guerilla companies, has an award-winning track record in film/TV and theatre production; cinema/DVD/VOD/airline/TV/online distribution; book publishing, as well as event management. An award-winning actor, he has starred in film/TV/theatre productions, has produced and/or distributed almost 150 feature films and has advised on financing for more than 300 feature film projects.
- 4/1/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Just ten years in to creating their regional documentary festival, the creators of the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri are already running one of the most successful documentary film festivals in the world. For festival goers, True/False leaves an indelible impression as being a festival with not only great films but also with eager and excited audiences and great conversations. True/False is celebrating their decade in existence with a special book charting the history of the festival, "Rarely Has Reality Needed So Much to Be Re-Imagined: A Mostly True History of the True/False Film Fest," available for purchase on the True/False online market here. Below are two essays printed in full from the book, both of which are essential reading for documentary lovers and filmmakers alike. One is from Distrify Founder and CEO Peter Gerard about how the festival got its start and another from the festival directors,...
- 2/11/2013
- by Peter Gerard & Paul Sturtz and David Wilson
- Indiewire
A Guardian journalist, he returned to his native Ireland to make the masterly film Rocky Road to Dublin
Peter Lennon, who has died of cancer at the age of 81, was at the same time a Dubliner, an honorary Parisian and a Guardian man. The honesty and integrity of his writing during two lengthy periods on the newspaper were also reflected in his one excursion into film, Rocky Road to Dublin (1968), which was both an indictment of and an impassioned plea for his native Ireland, and quickly came to be recognised as a documentary masterpiece. "If one is a true patriot, you criticise your own country," he later wrote when reflecting on the uproar it caused.
His relationship with the Guardian was not always smooth. During budget cuts in 1969, the paper, which had been struggling financially, suddenly let his contract lapse after a decade of distinguished freelance service in Paris. He successfully sued,...
Peter Lennon, who has died of cancer at the age of 81, was at the same time a Dubliner, an honorary Parisian and a Guardian man. The honesty and integrity of his writing during two lengthy periods on the newspaper were also reflected in his one excursion into film, Rocky Road to Dublin (1968), which was both an indictment of and an impassioned plea for his native Ireland, and quickly came to be recognised as a documentary masterpiece. "If one is a true patriot, you criticise your own country," he later wrote when reflecting on the uproar it caused.
His relationship with the Guardian was not always smooth. During budget cuts in 1969, the paper, which had been struggling financially, suddenly let his contract lapse after a decade of distinguished freelance service in Paris. He successfully sued,...
- 3/21/2011
- by Ian Mayes
- The Guardian - Film News
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