The Changing Game of Short Film Distribution

We’re really starting to like ShortoftheWeek.Com because they know just about everything about, um, shorts. (Short films! Short films! Not, you know, shorts.)

This year marked an interesting milestone for the Oscar nominated animated short films. For the first time in recent memory, people actually watched them. On January 29th, my Facebook feed blew up with posts about a short film—that’s right, a short film! Disney kicked off a decidedly unusual trend when it released its Oscar-nominated short Paperman online. Soon, others followed suit—Head Over Heels and Adam and Dog hit the internet within the week. Suddenly, an award category usually only visible by a very select few could be seen by the masses.

Then, abruptly, a few days before the big night, the shorts vanished. But, why? read article

Indie Film: JO JO IN THE STARS

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What can we say? This little gem has haunted us since we first saw it. Sooo creepy…and yet so filled with love:

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Why the TV Industry Needs Its Version of Steve Jobs — and Fast

The Hollywood Reporter has been surprising us lately by doing 2 things:

  1. Biting the hand that feeds it (i.e., the entrenched Hollywood powers-that-be and their business-as-usual-ways)
  2. Being right (i.e., understanding that because of technological innovation change in the Hollywood biz paradigm is essential to the survival of the industry)

Here’s a good example:

steve jobs as Hollywood savior read article

Hulu Owners Agree to Disagree Over Its Future Direction

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What? You thought Disney and NewsCorp would be able to agree on something as simple as the fate of the showbiz paradigm?

Cuz that’s what this really is, you know. read article

Dead Writers Cologne

Found on Etsy:

Dead-Writers-Cologne

A product of Sweet Tea Apothecary

The Dead Writers blend is now available in a perfume/cologne oil. This blend evokes the feeling of sitting in an old library chair paging through yellowed copies of Hemingway, Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Poe, and more. The Dead Writers blend makes you want to put on a kettle of black tea and curl up with your favorite book. read article