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4th Annual Ellensburg Film Festival

The Conversation -This will be an amazing event!

To All IndieFlix Filmmakers & Subscribers,

This is already an amazing event.  Here are the reasons why:

1. Leading innovators and newsmakers all in one room for 2 days sharing openly and listening.
2. There is no product, festival or company agenda at play.
3. The price is less than 1/5 of what a conference would cost.
4. Up close and personal access for both speakers and guests to share ideas.

to register: http://www.theconversationspot.com/registration.html

"We only endorse people and gatherings we truly believe in... The Conversation is just such an event!  I hope you will attend. We all look forward to meeting you.
Scilla Andreen, filmmaker, ceo & co-founder IndieFlix

The Future of Cinema, Games & Online Video: New Tools/ New Distribution / New Rules

This October, pioneers at the forefront of change in cinema, video, games, media and technology are coming together to share ideas, insights, and innovations. Our focus is on new tools, new distribution channels, and new rules.

The format of the gathering will be experimental: rather than a traditional conference, short talks and demos, "fireside chats," and roundtables will spark a dynamic series of overlapping conversations.

 

All this will happen at UC Berkeley's renowned Pacific Film Archive theater over two days this October. It's a conversation that will bring together media-makers and technologists to share experiences, discuss, debate, and map out the future together.

Some of the topics we'll touch on, and the people who'll lead the conversation, are listed here. But we also want to invite you to suggest other topics ... ones that you want to see added or address yourself.

Just added to the site: A list of some of the people who'll be part of The Conversation.

We hope you'll join us this fall ...

The Goal
Our hunch is that we're at an important moment in the history of technology and visual storytelling — a broad term that encompasses filmmaking, TV, online video, and narrative-driven games.

New software is making incredible things possible in visual effects and animation, and also democratizing those fields. Web sites offer to help finance film projects, or share ad revenue with video-makers. Marketing and release strategies are shifting by the minute. High-end high-def cameras are plummeting in price. The connection with the audience is changing. Established ways of doing things just don't seem to be working anymore, while new opportunities are emerging.

Our goal is for The Conversation to delve into all those issues — and more, with your ideas, help, and participation. The Conversation will focus exclusively on the new business and creative opportunities that are arising in 2008.

We expect every participant to bring his or her concerns, questions, or examples of what they've been doing and how well it's working, to share during the sessions or during the designated schmooze-time. (There will also be an opportunity to present during a Saturday workshop session.)

The overall goal is for The Conversation to be a real exchange of ideas — a gathering of people working on the edge and thinking about the future.

LIVING THE DREAM: Exclusive interview with Scilla Andreen, CEO of IndieFlix

LIVING THE DREAM: Exclusive interview with Scilla Andreen, CEO of IndieFlix

Scilla Andreen is a mother, a filmmaker, CEO of IndieFlix.com and an active member of her Seattle community. Yes, in that order, that’s how I figured she’s a good mother, she put that title first: Mother.

But let’s talk about a broad meaning, we’re talking about a person that treats every project as a baby, she nurtures it, feeds it, watches it grow and then feels proud of it. IndieFlix is 4 years old and as Mozart did, is making the difference since the early years. It’s not only a distribution company it’s a distribution experience.

She’s very passionate about her life at this moment, she sounds really happy and she’s decided, along with her partner Carlo Scandiuzzi, to make IndieFlix the link between the independent filmmaker and their audience. They recently announced their deal with all the major online distributors such iTunes, Netflix, Joost, Hulu, Vudu & Tivo.

This is a long interview, almost an hour, but every second is worthy. We talked about numbers, pay-per-view streaming, DVD Distribution, Digital Distribution, Non Exclusive Rights and her latest adventure IndieFest, among many other things.

The Interview. by Leonard Zelig - Guerrilla Filmmaking  http://guerrilla-filmmaking.com/

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Scilla Andreen is a mother, a filmmaker, CEO of IndieFlix.com and an active member of her Seattle community. Yes, in that order, that’s how I figured she’s a good mother, she put that title first: Mother.

But let’s talk about a broad meaning, we’re talking about a person that treats every project as a baby, she nurtures it, feeds it, watches it grow and then feels proud of it. IndieFlix is 4 years old and as Mozart did, is making the difference since the early years. It’s not only a distribution company it’s a distribution experience.

She’s very passionate about her life at this moment, she sounds really happy and she’s decided, along with her partner Carlo Scandiuzzi, to make IndieFlix the link between the independent filmmaker and their audience. They recently announced their deal with all the major online distributors such iTunes, Netflix, Joost, Hulu, Vudu & Tivo.

This is a long interview, almost an hour, but every second is worthy. We talked about numbers, pay-per-view streaming, DVD Distribution, Digital Distribution, Non Exclusive Rights and her latest adventure IndieFest, among many other things.

The Interview. by Leonard Zelig - Guerrilla Filmmaking  http://guerrilla-filmmaking.com/

LIVING THE DREAM: Exclusive interview with Scilla Andreen, CEO of IndieFlix

Scilla Andreen is a mother, a filmmaker, CEO of IndieFlix.com and an active member of her Seattle community. Yes, in that order, that’s how I figured she’s a good mother, she put that title first: Mother.

But let’s talk about a broad meaning, we’re talking about a person that treats every project as a baby, she nurtures it, feeds it, watches it grow and then feels proud of it. IndieFlix is 4 years old and as Mozart did, is making the difference since the early years. It’s not only a distribution company it’s a distribution experience.

She’s very passionate about her life at this moment, she sounds really happy and she’s decided, along with her partner Carlo Scandiuzzi, to make IndieFlix the link between the independent filmmaker and their audience. They recently announced their deal with all the major online distributors such iTunes, Netflix, Joost, Hulu, Vudu & Tivo.

This is a long interview, almost an hour, but every second is worthy. We talked about numbers, pay-per-view streaming, DVD Distribution, Digital Distribution, Non Exclusive Rights and her latest adventure IndieFest, among many other things.

The Interview. by Leonard Zelig - Guerrilla Filmmaking  http://guerrilla-filmmaking.com/

Independent film distribution - Interesting article in the WSJ

"While I found this article to be true and unsettling for independent film I feel validated
for the direction IndieFlix is growing."

Scilla Andreen, Filmmaker, CEO & Co-Founder IndieFlix.com

Toronto Film Festival Opens Amid Cautious Industry Climate

By ANTHONY KAUFMAN
Special to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
September 3, 2008 8:14 p.m. 

<Excerpt from WSJ article on Toronto Film Festival>

Sellers acknowledge there are less buyers in the marketplace, but they also point to new companies and new distribution models stepping in to fill the void left by traditional studio players.

"The value of intellectual property has not diminished -- the value of traditional distribution is diminishing," says William Morris agent Cassian Elwes, who is representing several new films at the festival. "We just have to be a bit more clever in the way we find distribution for these films. The value may not be in theatrical [release]."

Read entire story...http://tinyurl.com/5ogpk4

Indie-Fest at Feel Good Film Festival a Fine Success

IndieFlix just wrapped another successful indie-fest this time at the Feel Good Film Festival in Los Angeles.  Thousands of viewers watched and voted on 2 features and 2 docs.  Paul Germains's Speedy Delivery took top honors winning the Indie-Fest Best Film Award which includes a $1000 cash prize and an IndieFlix 90/10 distrbution deal. A special recognition award went to Big Shot Caller which also receives the 90/10 distribution deal.

"Leave a film festival feeling GOOD!" was the motto and apparently that is exactly how the audience felt this weekend as they left the Egyptian theater.

 

The Feel Good Film Festival contributes to a world where happy, positive and inspiring films are highly regarded and widely distributed to promote the constant flow of positive energy through film viewing.

Feel Good Film Festival a Fine Success

Written by Chandler Maness

Monday, 25 August 2008

These days it's tough to see an independent film that does not revolve around some sort of cynicism (Juno), nihilism (No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood), or some other dark subject matter.  In spite of this, Kristen Ridgeway created the 1st annual Feel Good Film Festival which took place August 22-24th at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.  IFD was there to mark the event, meet the filmmakers, and promote the IndieFlix  film contest that was announced after the premiere film. (PHOTO at left: Odessa director Amy Lyndon and IFD's Chandler Maness)   IndieFlix, a constant friend to the DIY filmmaker sponsored "indie-fest" a contest between four films (The Big-Shot Caller, Courthouse Girls of Farmland, Defying Gravity, and Speedy Delivery) the winner of which receives a 1-year distribution deal through IndieFlix, $1,000 cash, and a closing night festival screening. For its first year in existence, the festival was well attended and seamlessly organized. The stars, filmmakers, and guests arrived to walk down the yellow carpet (to represent sunshine) and were treated to free drinks from Hansen's and Fortune Vodka. There was a live band, and everyone seemed excited about the event and the networking opportunities in the beautiful courtyard of the historic Egyptian Theatre.   "The Laughing Yogi" Yogi Ramesh brought his live "The Laughing Yoga Show" to the Egyptian Theatre on Saturday.  Here he amuses the paparazzi at Opening Night.       Opening Night party of Feel Good Film Festival, courtyard of Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles   After a few hours of hobnobbing and free drinks, the guests were ushered into the grand Lloyd E. Rigler auditorium for the opening night screening of the film The Rainbow Tribe.  It stars David James Elliot (of JAG fame) as a cancer patient who spends the summer as a camp counselor to gain perspective into his life. The film is geared towards younger audiences, but delightful performances from its young cast made the movie fun for all to watch. After the premiere, attendees were treated to both a director/cast Q & A session as well as the IndieFlix announcement.  Speedy Delivery, directed by Paul Germain won the prize package and closed the festival on Sunday evening to grand applause. The opening evening was hosted by Rainn Wilson (The Office, The Rocker, Juno) and he was hilarious as expected.  IFD was glad to be a part of the 1st annual Feel Good Film Festival, and as we looked around at the end of opening night, everyone left feeling just that…good.

http://tinyurl.com/67d6nn

IndieFlix Top Selling Indie Filmmaker, Jon Lewis (“The Telephone”) has a new film in production

Black Devil Doll will be a full length feature...
From the sick and twisted mind of Shawn Lewis, former editor and publisher of Blackest Heart Magazine and the creative force behind Rotten Cotton Graphics, comes the sleaziest Blaxploitation Horror film ever envisioned.
Five naive young women are raped, abused and tortured by an evil jive-ass talking ventriloquist doll possessed by the spirit of an executed black militant death row inmate.
Who will survive? What will be left of them? Will their virginity be intact?
Its Chucky meets Dolemite in this violent, misogynistic, sleazy horror film directed by up and coming genre director Jonathan Lewis.
The first NC-17 Blaxploitation Horror film!
Premiering this Halloween 2007! Look for it on DVD and at Film Fests world wide in 2008!

"A young, moist, buxom teen vixen finds herself hurled into an odyssey of forbidden sex and unspeakable violence after an innocent evening dabbling in the occult. What started as a simple child's game has now become a fight for her life! What is this evil that she has summoned from beyond? And why does it have a fro? What kind of horrific acts will she be subjected to? And what price will her super-hot, half-nude friends have to pay? But more importantly, how much Caucasian blood will have to be shed to stop....the BLACK DEVIL DOLL?!!"

No One's Watching: An Alien Abductee's Story,

No One's Watching: An Alien Abductee's Story, you know that I claim to have a possession-like energy in me that makes the body do what looks like Ti Chi, Whirling Dervish Twirls, and other assorted yoga/meditation practices and rituals. You've seen me do this in the flick. You may have wondered if I went off the deep end or was playing a trick on the audience.

Or am I just a blatant fraud?

Well, I have startling new evidence that finally sheds light on what's happening in me. I cannot say for certain what it is but I can rule out what it is not. It is not me lying. It is not me being delusional. And most shocking of all to me personally, it is not me meditating.

In fact, it may not be me at all.

I've been saying that my film--beyond the jokes, the entertainment value and the awkwardness--may be a historic document illustrating something new in humanity as expressed through this body. It's hard to say that with a straight face. Now I have to because it's true, not hyperbole.

I don't know what all of the implications are yet but one is certainly at the top of the heap: Many of us have been waiting for that next evolutionary step. We've been waiting for a new generation of people born higher than us, different from us. Perhaps we've been looking to the future when what we should be examining is the now. I submit to you that the next evolutionary leap is here with us--within each of us--right now. We just need to access it. I know how. It's paradoxical, it's anti everything we know, but it is achievable, if that's the right word.

I'll be presenting my evidence on Coast tomorrow and telling you the how. Do tune in. If you've not seen the movie yet, you can get it here at Indie Flix:

http://www.indieflix.com/FilmDetail.aspx?tid=9195&name=No%20One

This isn't about me making money it's about spreading the word enough that some scientific team somewhere in the world takes me seriously and takes me up on the offer I continue to make: Study me. I'll be your lab rat for free. Let's get to the bottom of this energy in me, this unfolding enlightenment process.  We don't even have to go public with the study.

Again, it's really not about me. Fame is nonsense outside of the fact that people pay attention to the famous and so it affords them access to certain things they otherwise would struggle after.  It's  happening in me and I happen to be curious, skeptical, and don't want to turn this into a New Age circus. It's too important.

There's no time to waste; let's get going.

Quietest Sound" is unlike any film you’ve ever seen.

The Quietest Sound

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One crime.  One take.  Two twists.

Two unseen detectives turn on a camcorder to record their conversation with Elizabeth (Catherine E. Johnson), whose 4-year-old daughter, Chloe, has been missing for almost a week. For 75 minutes the camera rolls, without stopping. And after some shocking twists, we finally learn what happened to Chloe. Or do we?

From the writer/director of the award-winning "Two Harbors" (Best Feature: Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, Milwaukee International Film Festival, Eugene Film Festival, Victoria (Australia) Festival of Motion Image and the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival), "The Quietest Sound" is a disturbing look at the aftermath of a horrible crime. Pairing a remarkable, tour-de-force performance by Catherine E. Johnson (Best Actress, Fargo Film Festival) with an almost impossible technical set-up, "The Quietest Sound" is unlike any film you’ve ever seen.

Directed by James Vculek

http://www.indieflix.com/FilmDetail.aspx?tid=4622&name=The%20Quietest%20Sound

Behind the Celluloid: Proinhibition

One of the important and compelling aspects of film is the story behind the film.  Every film is a testament to endurance, struggle and the willingness to tell a story, voice an opinion or expose a truth that the filmmaker believes must be seen or heard.  Making a film, is no small task and the few who do manage to complete the marathon that is film production always have a reason as to why they chose to endure all of the hardships to get their picture finished.

Earlier this year IndieFlix decided that we wanted to know what was the story behind the story?  What drove our filmmakers to make their film?  We believe that learning about the person behind the celluloid is the best way of understanding the movie you watch.  We solicited stories and accounts from IndieFlix filmmakers and have decided to share them with you, our readers.

This installment of the Behind the Celluloid series tells the story of: “Proinhibition”

IndieFlix - Behind the Celluloid

One of the important and compelling aspects of film is the story behind the film.  Every film is a testament to endurance, struggle and the willingness to tell a story, voice an opinion or expose a truth that the filmmaker believes must be seen or heard.  Making a film, is no small task and the few who do manage to complete the marathon that is film production always have a reason as to why they chose to endure all of the hardships to get their picture finished.

Earlier this year IndieFlix decided that we wanted to know what was the story behind the story.  What drove our filmmakers to make their film?  We believe that learning about the person behind the celluloid is the best way of understanding the movie you watch.  We solicited stories and accounts from IndieFlix filmmakers and have decided to share them with you, our readers.

This week's installment of the Behind the Celluloid series tells the story of: DISAVOWAL

Don't forget to visit IndieFlix.com where you can find this and many other films!