UK company to set up office in China following investment of $1m for VOD growth into the country.
Glasgow-based VOD platform Distrify Media has secured investment of nearly $1m from international venture syndicate Esm Investments, alongside ongoing support from other investment bodies.
The funding has been earmarked to support Distrify Media’s development and expansion, which includes a landmark deal to launch an international Chinese VOD portal and to distribute locally produced films internationally.
Distrify Media is the first European VOD company to sign a distribution deal with China’s Cntv and the company’s digital arm Future TV.
The deal will see Distrify Media technology deliver Future TV videos online including mobile apps and Smart TV as part of the deal. Distrify will also gain an outpost at the headquarters of Future TV in Tianjin, China, expanding its current workforce beyond Glasgow and Tel Aviv.
The partnership will see Future TV content - more than 1.5 million...
Glasgow-based VOD platform Distrify Media has secured investment of nearly $1m from international venture syndicate Esm Investments, alongside ongoing support from other investment bodies.
The funding has been earmarked to support Distrify Media’s development and expansion, which includes a landmark deal to launch an international Chinese VOD portal and to distribute locally produced films internationally.
Distrify Media is the first European VOD company to sign a distribution deal with China’s Cntv and the company’s digital arm Future TV.
The deal will see Distrify Media technology deliver Future TV videos online including mobile apps and Smart TV as part of the deal. Distrify will also gain an outpost at the headquarters of Future TV in Tianjin, China, expanding its current workforce beyond Glasgow and Tel Aviv.
The partnership will see Future TV content - more than 1.5 million...
- 6/9/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Power to the Pixel’s annual Pixel Lab event will feature 32 participants.
A total of 32 international media professionals working with interactive and cross-media approaches have been selected to take part in Power to the Pixel’s annual Pixel Lab event (June 28 - July 4), taking place in Inverness, Scotland in June.
Now in its sixth year, The Pixel Lab is Power to the Pixel’s development course designed to explore how interactivity and new media tools can add value to film, TV or new media projects and engage new audiences.
Spanning 20 countries, the selected participants will take part in a training week, to develop skills and exchange ideas to create, produce and finance cross-platform properties.
Some 16 international producers will develop projects that incorporate a range of film, interactive, live event, mobile, gaming, TV, publishing or online, partnered with 16 cross-media professionals that include producers, writers, commissioning editors, financiers, story architects, games and interactive developers and designers.
This residential...
A total of 32 international media professionals working with interactive and cross-media approaches have been selected to take part in Power to the Pixel’s annual Pixel Lab event (June 28 - July 4), taking place in Inverness, Scotland in June.
Now in its sixth year, The Pixel Lab is Power to the Pixel’s development course designed to explore how interactivity and new media tools can add value to film, TV or new media projects and engage new audiences.
Spanning 20 countries, the selected participants will take part in a training week, to develop skills and exchange ideas to create, produce and finance cross-platform properties.
Some 16 international producers will develop projects that incorporate a range of film, interactive, live event, mobile, gaming, TV, publishing or online, partnered with 16 cross-media professionals that include producers, writers, commissioning editors, financiers, story architects, games and interactive developers and designers.
This residential...
- 5/27/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Last Broadcast director Lance Weiler among those set to deliver masterclasses at the St Petersburg International Media Forum, which opens tonight with Mommy [pictured].
Lance Weiler, Adam Sigel and Andy Green are among the international guests set to give masterclasses at the inaugural St Petersburg International Media Forum (Spimf) which kicks off tonight (Oct 1) with the Russian premiere of Xavier Dolan’s Mommy.
Film director Weiler (The Last Broadcast, Pandemic), who is also the co-founder of Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab, will speak about interactive storytelling as part of Spimf’s business programme (Oct 6-8), while writer-producer and content strategist Adam Sigel of La-based Cutbait Productions will explore storytelling across platforms, and Andy Green, a co-founder of the viral distribution platform Distrify, will discuss the influence of scientific and technological innovation on cultural strategy.
In other master classes, the creative technologist Clint Beharry of New York-based Harmony Institute will look at ways of optimising stories for social...
Lance Weiler, Adam Sigel and Andy Green are among the international guests set to give masterclasses at the inaugural St Petersburg International Media Forum (Spimf) which kicks off tonight (Oct 1) with the Russian premiere of Xavier Dolan’s Mommy.
Film director Weiler (The Last Broadcast, Pandemic), who is also the co-founder of Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab, will speak about interactive storytelling as part of Spimf’s business programme (Oct 6-8), while writer-producer and content strategist Adam Sigel of La-based Cutbait Productions will explore storytelling across platforms, and Andy Green, a co-founder of the viral distribution platform Distrify, will discuss the influence of scientific and technological innovation on cultural strategy.
In other master classes, the creative technologist Clint Beharry of New York-based Harmony Institute will look at ways of optimising stories for social...
- 10/1/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Istanbul-based course to select 15 participants.
The European Women’s Audiovisual network is planning a course devoted to online marketing and distribution, to be held in Istanbul April 25-27.
Applications are open until April 7 and only 15 participants will be selected for the course, which is presented with Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan’s Zeyno Films.
The course will cover how to use branding for films, how to successfully crowd-fund, digital distribution possibilities and pitfalls to be aware of when distributing online.
Experts set to lead the course are Distrify’s Andy Green [pictured], Digital Leadership Institute’s Cheryl Miller, Coffee and Cigarettes’ Eduardo Panizzo, and Turkish crowdfunding expert Seda Kilic Artas.
More information and the application form can be found here.
The European Women’s Audiovisual network is planning a course devoted to online marketing and distribution, to be held in Istanbul April 25-27.
Applications are open until April 7 and only 15 participants will be selected for the course, which is presented with Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan’s Zeyno Films.
The course will cover how to use branding for films, how to successfully crowd-fund, digital distribution possibilities and pitfalls to be aware of when distributing online.
Experts set to lead the course are Distrify’s Andy Green [pictured], Digital Leadership Institute’s Cheryl Miller, Coffee and Cigarettes’ Eduardo Panizzo, and Turkish crowdfunding expert Seda Kilic Artas.
More information and the application form can be found here.
- 3/31/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Screen Film Summit: Understanding the differences between platforms is key to unlocking the potential of a converging world, attendees at Screen’s Film Summit at the BFI Southbank heard today (Dec 2).
A panel on convergence discussed the huge amount of creative potential in the multi-platform arena, but underlined the fact that the appeal of different platforms to audiences had to be fully understood to make projects really work across diverse platforms.
“The promise of convergence is that we can create these storyworlds,” said Film 4.0 commissioning executive Anna Higgs.
Higgs highlighted the strategy taken by Film 4.0 to the multi-platform release of Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England earlier this year which looked to understand the attraction — and differences — of different platforms.
“Thinking about them all as the same pipe to put the same content is dangerous,” she explained.
The problems posed by the range of terms used to describe the arena was also said to be unhelpful...
A panel on convergence discussed the huge amount of creative potential in the multi-platform arena, but underlined the fact that the appeal of different platforms to audiences had to be fully understood to make projects really work across diverse platforms.
“The promise of convergence is that we can create these storyworlds,” said Film 4.0 commissioning executive Anna Higgs.
Higgs highlighted the strategy taken by Film 4.0 to the multi-platform release of Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England earlier this year which looked to understand the attraction — and differences — of different platforms.
“Thinking about them all as the same pipe to put the same content is dangerous,” she explained.
The problems posed by the range of terms used to describe the arena was also said to be unhelpful...
- 12/2/2013
- ScreenDaily
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
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