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Blair Witch Producer Reveals Fan Building that Drove Distribution

Michael Monello (Campfire Media, producer of the Blair Witch Project) talks about the... more

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How to Make Money: Give Your Film Away for Free

Nina Paley, indie filmmaker and entrepreneur, talks about how making your film... more

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DIY Days Philadelphia

Douglas Rushkoff, author of NY Times bestseller, Life Inc. describes the DIY model of... more

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Got a Crazy Dad? Make a Movie of him

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The 18 People Who Changed Hollywood

Lance Weiler Tight budgets force lots of indie filmmakers to experiment with new... more

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From Here to Awesome Screening: Friday Aug 15th

Promo for FHTA event: Friday August 15th, San Francisco, Mezzanine. Register now at:... more

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DIY Days - San Francisco

Learn how to produce, distribute and fund your film without big studio support.

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Current TV @ FHTA screening, San Francisco: August 15th, 2008

YOU'RE IN CONTROL OF WHAT SCREENS: FREE FESTIVAL SCREENINGS AUGUST 15th in SAN... more

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Arin Crumley case study @ DIY Days LA

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M Dot Strange case study @ DIY Days LA

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The Realities of DIY panel @ DIY Days LA

There’s been much discussion about the democratization of the tools but what’s... more

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DIY Days

DIY Days is a one-day event where independent filmmakers can learn how to fund,... more

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Current TV @ DIY Days, Los Angeles: July 26th, '08

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Lance Weiler is a critically acclaimed award winning writer / director. He is recognized as a pioneer because of the way he makes and distributes his work. Millimeter magazine called Lance a “tech iconoclast” and Wired magazine named him “One of twenty-five people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.”

His work has been featured in Time and Forbes and on television programs such as Entertainment Tonight and CNN. His first feature, “The Last Broadcast,” is currently distributed in over 20 countries. It has the honor of being the first all digital release of a motion picture to theaters nationwide and has enjoyed runs on HBO and IFC. To date “The Last Broadcast” a self-distributed effort, has grossed over 4 million dollars worldwide.

He’s newest feature, “Head Trauma,” had its world premiere at the LA Film Festival. Lance put together his own 17 city theatrical release which rolled into a national DVD release and VOD release by Warner Brothers. Always interested in experimenting with new ways to tell stories and reach audiences, Lance developed a cinema ARG (alternate realty game) around “Head Trauma.” The cinematic ARG is a mashup of movies, music, theatrics and gaming. Over 2.5 million people experienced elements of the game across theaters, mobile drive-ins, mobile phones and online.

In addition to making feature films, Lance also directs commercials and music videos. He often lectures at universities and film societies about the changing landscape of content creation and distribution. He has spoken at the Cannes, Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals and has consulted for large ad agencies, entertainment companies and corporations.

Lance also splits his time as a partner in a social media company called Seize the Media. STM was created to address the gap between burgeoning technologies and entertainment. STM’s clients have included Microsoft, eBay, Earthlink, Ubisoft, and Creative Artists Agency among others.

Lance is also the founder of the Workbook Project a “social open source” project for filmmakers. The Workbook Project’s goal is to help filmmakers understand the changing landscape of funding, production, promotion, and distribution in a digital age.

Currently, Lance is writing a book entitled Putting the Mass Back in Media, which will be released in 2008. He is also developing a number of television, film and cross-media projects.

Lance sits on the board of the IFP a national filmmaker organization and is the co-founder of From Here to Awesome a discovery and distribution fest that puts filmmakers directly in touch with global audiences.

Prior to the release of “The Last Broadcast,” Lance spent seven years working as a camera assistant and operator, on large commercial shoots all over the world. During that time he had the honor of working with a number of amazing cinematographers, such as Darius Khondji, Harris Savides, and the late Conrad Hall. Lance Weiler is a critically acclaimed award winning writer / director. He is... more

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Arin Crumley @ DIY Days LA

At the age of 16, Arin Crumley began experimenting with low-res digital video... more

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m dot strange @ DIY Days LA

We Are the Strange focuses on "two diametrically opposed outcasts" as they "fight for survival in a sinister fantasy world." These two outcasts are an abused woman named Blue who has a mysterious degenerative disease and a living doll named eMMM.

The two meet in the Forest of Still Life, where Blue follows eMMM to Stopmo City on a search for his ideal ice cream parlor. Upon arriving in Stopmo City, they are caught in the middle of a fierce battle between bizarre monsters, making their progress difficult. Thankfully, a hero named Rain appears and easily destroys every monster that faces him. Blue meets Rain before he partakes in an "impossible battle against the source of all that is evil in Stopmo City." During the battle, Rain, along with Ori are crushed by Him after Rain states he wants to avenge his son. When the outlook seems grim, a fist made of aluminum foil breaks through the ground and starts the final showdown between good and evil. Six alternate soundtracks (+author's commentary), including soundtrack by Noise Inc. are available on the DVD. The music used in We Are the Strange Trailer has been made by chiptune artist YERZMYEY/AY-RIDERS (a cover of t.A.T.u.'s "30 minut") using ZX Spectrum computer.

M dot Strange has stated that he wishes to release the film on the Internet rather than in theaters as he will be able to retain all rights to his work, and any profits made thereafter (DVD sales, merchandise, etc). On July 16, 2006, in an interview, he said he was "trying to finish it in time to make the Sundance film festival".[1] In an e-mail sent to suscribers on the film's mailing list October 26, 2006, he stated that "The film will be done in 2 months and will hopefully premiere at a fancy_pants festival in January...". According to M. dot Strange's blog he received a call from Sundance saying that We Are the Strange would premiere as part of the Midnight Movie Program at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.[2] The film was released August 2007.

The film has since been released on torrent sites with a Youtube video from M Dot Strange proclaiming this as a "torrentrical release" (a play on theatrical and torrent) that has helped increase his audience and, in turn, DVD sales.We Are the Strange focuses on "two diametrically opposed outcasts" as they "fight for... more

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Matt Hanson @ DIY Days LA

Matt Hanson (born September 17, 1971) is an author, film producer, and film director,... more

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Ondi Timoner @ DIY Days LA

Timoner graduated Yale University cum laude and founded Interloper in 1995. She filmed the documentaries Voices From Inside Time about incarcerated women in Connecticut, winner of the Yale Film Prize - and later, The Nature of the Beast, about one woman's heroic journey through the criminal justice system, and winner of the Bettina Russel Grand Jury Prize in Canada and The National Society for Visual Anthropology Commendation, which aired on PBS. She later went on to shoot Dam Nation, set in the oldest living civilization of sub-Saharan Africa about a WTO dam.

She created and directed for the TV series Sound Affects, the highest-rated pilot in VH1's history, and ABC's highly successful Switched!. Through Interloper she has made music videos and music documentaries for The Dandy Warhols, The Vines, Paul Westerberg, Lucinda Williams, Vanessa Carlton, The Jonas Brothers, and DMC, among others.

While filming music videos and documentaries for Interloper, Timoner was simultaneously financing, producing, directing, and editing DiG!, which chronicles seven years of the lives of two neo-psychedelic bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. After it's release in 2004, the film won the Grand Jury Prize 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival, and is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

After working with Vasco Nunes on the film, Timoner collaborated with him again on another two documentaries; Recycle, winner at the ICG Awards, and presented at Sundance, Cannes, and Silverdocs; and Join Us. Timoner has since also directed commercials for McDonalds, State Farm, DeVry, the US Army and Ford.

Third Floor LLC has just finished Join Us, a documentary about mind control in the United States. Interloper is currently in post-production on We Live In Public, about the millennium in NY and a dot.com millionaire’s human experiment to test the effects of media and technology on the development of personal identity. Timoner and Interloper Films are currently in production on an untitled film about the history and influence of Jamaican Music with Chris Blackwell and L&M Media; Lollapalooza, a feature-length film about the history of alternative music, politics and culture from 1990 through 2008 through the experience of America’s first touring festival; and an untitled documentary about the video game revolution in collaboration with Mekanism for MTV Films and EA.Timoner graduated Yale University cum laude and founded Interloper in 1995. She filmed... more