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Diary of a Film Startup: Post # 29: The Vision Thing

By Roger Jackson

Previously: Dough Ray Me

Crystal Ball

I thought I’d use this post to think about the future and some of the trends that will affect films & filmmakers, particularly in the video-on-demand space. I don’t want to sound like the pompous visionary. I’m not a visionary and I have no crystal ball —  merely informed opinion. This is not what WILL happen, but what I think may happen. And much of what follows may be stating the obvious.

Languages & Territories

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The part of the future that gets me most excited is the global market. And I don’t mean just Europe and Asia. There are 7+ billion people on the planet. Right now most don’t have access to movies. Or at least not your movies. Early last year — just before we started KinoNation — I was working in a poor, village in a remote part of Africa, on the border of Mauritania and Mali. Despite extreme poverty and isolation, most of these rural subsistence farmers and their families had cellphones.

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Discovering Great Movies Just Got A Whole Lot Easier

Admit it: these are overwhelming times we live in.  Supposedly over 50,000 feature films are generated on a global basis each year.  In America we manage to consume about 1% of the year’s supply — and that makes up the top consumption market for films worldwide.  Good movies just don’t get seen.  People find it hard to connect with the films that may suit them best.  So what can we do about it?  Well…

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The Really Good Things In The Indie Film Biz 2012

Last year I wrote out 15 really good things about the indie film biz (2011). My first instincts at looking at the list, are that the 15 from last year are still in process this year. Maybe I was a bit ahead of the curve.  Maybe I should hold this post until 2013.  But I don’t think so — we have much to celebrate this year too.

So what are the new developments that are now taking hold?  Unfortunately, my mind hasn’t found the answers as quickly as others have (and here too) even if I do consider myself quite the optimist.  Okay, make that a pessmistic optimist, but an optimist nonetheless.  I have struggled to hit the same number as last year, but I did it, and even exceeded it — and hopefully you’ll continue to fill in the list with what I forgot.

  1. Direct distribution is really working.  
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