A week ago, Sharon Waxman wrote the following item in her Report From Sundance in The Wrap.

Steven Soderbergh, a filmmaker who may well be synonymous with the Sundance brand (“sex, lies, and videotape” put the festival on the map in 1989), gave his latest film to Slamdance. “And Everything is Going Fine” is screening at the rival (more…)

Shelly Palmer is President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY. He is a consultant and the host of MediaBytes a daily show featuring news you can use about technology, media & entertainment. See more here.

The Paley Center for Media billed it as, “The Great Digital Debate: Free vs. Paid Content Online” a luncheon conversation sponsored by KPMG in the very nice boardroom at the Paley Center. The key debaters were (more…)

The Woodstock Film Festival featured a distinguished panel that discussed film criticism. Brian Geldin, of the The Film Panel Notetaker was there to cover the discussion. More about Brian below.

Is the issue of where film criticism and journalism going still an important and relevant topic? Absolutely. Should it be constantly beat over the head with a stick? Not necessarily, as there are lots of other interesting (more…)

Reid Rosefelt founded SPEED CINE to index on-line content. His site is speedcine.com.

The first thing you learn when you go on Twitter is that nearly everyone on there is a Social Media Marketing Expert. I realize that being a Social Media Marketing Maven on Twitter is commensurate to writing that you savor long walks on the beach in your Match.com profile, but it got me thinking: if each one of these geniuses could generate a thousand dollars (more…)

Dogwoof Films based in London is the UK distribution partner for IndiePix. We are proud of their work and extremely pleased to be associated with them. This morning’s email (June 19) carried the following report …

Last night, on the eve of the 64th Birthday of Burma’s detained pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, (more…)

Jerry Weinstein is a writer and new media expert. He has worked with us on our End of America project, and now he is contributing to our internet base distribution of an expose of family detention policies affecting Americans and citizens of other countries who are held without accountability in prisons around the country. He recently attended a screening of The Least Of These at the Center for American progress. This is his report: (more…)