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  1. Time Warner CEO compares Netflix to the Albanian army

    CinemaTech &bull Dec 13, 2010

    Couldn't resist posting about this quote from Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, on Netflix being overhyped. Interesting comment from a CEO whose stock started the year at $30 a share and is ending it just below $32 a share; Netflix,… Full Story »


  2. Links from Distribution U. in NY...And looking ahead to Saturday at UCLA

    CinemaTech &bull Nov 17, 2010

    Wow... we had a great group of 200 filmmakers converge on NYU's Cantor Film Center last Saturday for the first Distribution U. of 2010... Eric Kohn of IndieWire was there as one of our guest experts, running lunch discussions on… Full Story »

  3. Distribution U., coming to NY (Nov. 13th) and LA (Nov. 20th)

    CinemaTech &bull Oct 8, 2010

    I'm really excited to be collaborating again with Peter Broderick to put together two new "Distribution U." workshops next month: one at NYU on November 13th , and one at UCLA on November 20th . We did the first "trial"… Full Story »

  4. Clips: IFP Panel on "Big Ideas for the Small Screen"

    CinemaTech &bull Sep 23, 2010

    These are the clips I would've shown in this morning's IFP Filmmaker Conference panel on "Big Ideas for the Small Screen." Full Story »

  5. TV Ennui: Are Viewers Totally Content, or Just Really Averse to Change?

    CinemaTech &bull Aug 23, 2010

    There's a great collection of stories in today's NY Times, focusing on efforts to change the way we watch TV (online and in our living rooms.) The overall message is that viewers are either pretty happy with the cable/broadcast/satellite programming… Full Story »

  6. Notes and quotes from the PGA's 2010 "Produced By" conference

    CinemaTech &bull Jun 6, 2010

    It was a real treat to be invited to speak at the PGA's "Produced By" conference this weekend; I was on a panel moderated by Emerging Cinemas' Ira Deutchman called "Smashing Windows: DIY and the New Hybrid Distribution." I took some notes throughout the day Saturday on things that struck me as worth remembering, during panels on transmedia, digital cinema, "The Simpsons," and the producer's role. No one has figured it out." But it seems obvious, he added, that "you just can't keep making $100 million movies." Picker moderated a panel of producers talking about the relationship between producer and… Full Story »

  7. Ten links for today's DIY panel at the "Produced By" conference

    CinemaTech &bull Jun 5, 2010

    I'm panelizing later today at the PGA's "Produced By" conference in LA, and just wanted to share some links with the audience (and you). The title of the session is "Smashing Windows: D.I.Y. and the New Hybrid Distribution." Here's are… Full Story »

  8. Chad Hurley Interview Notes from 2005

    CinemaTech &bull May 18, 2010

    YouTube is marking its fifth anniversary this month.It felt like a good time to go back to the notes from my October 2005 interview with co-founder Chad Hurley; I'd interviewed him while working on this New York Times story about video-sharing sites, which compared YouTube to other start-ups that helped publish your… Full Story »

  9. Video from The Conversation @ Columbia

    CinemaTech &bull May 12, 2010

    We shot the three main panels at the March edition of The Conversation , held at Columbia University. (The audio is a bit rough at points, due to some mics onstage that were cranked up a bit too high.) Thanks… Full Story »

  10. 'Filmmakers Taking Charge,' May 7th at the Maryland Film Festival

    CinemaTech &bull Apr 27, 2010

    I've been helping out the good folks at the Maryland Film Festival with a new event, coming up on May 7th in Baltimore: the Filmmakers Taking Charge Conference.It'll focus on topics like "generating buzz in a digital world," "the new… Full Story »

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