Online streaming – what, why and who with?

You've made a great short film (or perhaps a feature) and of course you want the world to see it. The traditional method requires you to take out a bank loan to fund endless dubs of your film, as well as parting with a small fortune in postage and entry fees on the off-chance you might one day be the proud runner-up in the Outer Mongolian Film Festival. The festival route is a hit-and-miss affair
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You’ve made a great short film (or perhaps a feature) and of course you want the world to see it. The traditional method requires you to take out a bank loan to fund endless dubs of your film, as well as parting with a small fortune in postage and entry fees on the off-chance you might one day be the proud runner-up in the Outer Mongolian Film Festival. The festival route is a hit-and-miss affair – an enormous amount of effort and money that often results in a very small viewing audience (if any). Anyone who has gone down this route might ask themselves who they are meant to be – a filmmaker or a distributor? What if there was a way to reach a whole bunch of people with very little effort? Enter online streaming…

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Malcolm Burt
About the Author
Owner of MMMEDIA - a film, television and interactive agency, Malcolm is the creator and producer of the ten part ABCTV ‘One Small Room’ series, and his upcoming 3 x 1hr international documentary ‘Under’ and Hi-Definition feature film ‘Trolley Boy’ have both secured U.S distribution. He is also producing the ‘Frocks Off’ series of 30 x 30 second interstitials with SBS. Malcolm has discussed film and media on radio, TV and at conferences and is also a lecturer with the Qld School of Film and Television and soon to be teaching at AFTRS. He is a writer with over 30 articles published nationally and internationally on film and media subjects as well as his postgraduate research topic of Online Film Security, and is currently writing a book for emerging producers. He also likes the noddy dogs that sit on car dashboards. malcolmb@mmmedia.com.au http://www.mmmedia.com.au