The Broadband Movie Channel (s)
Posted on March 11, 2008
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From a press release yesterday:
Babelgum, the new interactive web TV portal, has released all entries to the Babelgum Online Film Festival onto its platform for public voting.”
Be interesting to see how far the public get involved.
“The festival introduces a huge variety of professionally produced short films. Over a thousand entries from 86 countries are available to anyone with broadband, reaching a potential global audience of 360 million.” Presume that’s the number of broadband subscribers but: Ever heard of the long tail?
“The Babelgum Online Film Festival is the first of its kind, and provides a unique distribution opportunity for the newest filmmaking talent. A number of entries have been created specifically for the festival, proving that it is also generating new and original content.”
We have a glut of creative talent.
Perhaps providing a glimpse into the future of film production, exhibition and consumer tastes in the digital age, a quarter of the entries are original, unseen content, which means that Babelgum will be premiering the films. Young and emerging filmmakers are seeing strong representation, with entries from 198 film students and the average age of entrants at just 29 years old.
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“a potential global audience of 360 million.”?? LOL
That must be early april fool joke, right ?
I mean, no need to try their solution while you can have better vids on Youtube
Anyway I had a good laugh with this article…