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Escaype Live, trailer launch and press meet: Two Sidhharths, one JJ, many escaype artistes

Escaype Live, trailer launch and press meet: Two Sidhharths, one JJ and many escaype artistes Disney + Hotstar, one of a handful of leading OTT platforms, has formulated what it calls the “biggest social thriller of the year”. They have named it Escaype Live and it is described as “the most relevant story of current times.” Created and directed by Siddharth Kumar Tewary, it took three years to make, against an estimated six months, and will release only on Disney+ Hot...

NYC 2 Paris Social Media Links !

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Make sure to folow us on social for updates!  Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nyc2parisFest?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NYC2Paris/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyc2parisfilmfest/ ...

Founder of Social Media Platform "Stage 32" Leads Panel at Cannes Film Festival

As the world of film, television and theater continues to get increasingly competitive, it can be nearly impossible to land your dream job or to hire the perfect crew. However, with Stage 32, an online platform created to help you get connected with people in the entertainment industry, life is made seemingly easier. Richard Botto, the CEO/Founder of Stage 32, spoke with a panel on Thursday, May 12 at the Cannes Film Festival on how to utilize his website and how to find success in the ever-c...

New York Premier, Before the Spring, Egypt, 2015

  Before the Spring is an impressive reconstruction of the events leading to the Egyptian Spring by a blogger who lost his eye sight during the revolution. He was part of a small group of young opponents effectively using the social media for the revolt while leading government officials remained totally oblivious to rapidly emerging use and power  of the internet. The director Ahmed Atef provides a compelling cogent demonstration in his film of the social and political power of th...

"Stage 32" Takes The Stage At Next Pavilion

        Here at the Cannes FIlm Festival, there is always a widely attended activity going on over at the Next Pavilion in the international village. The other day, Stage 32, took the literal stage and presented their largest social media network and education hub for film, television, and theater. Established in 2011, the company already boasts over 400,000 members worldwide and is rapidly increased. It’s website features a robust amount of ways to connect with peo...

Flixscene - an online film magazine & consumer portal from Egg up

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  The latest info about the film industry around the world. See what others are doing to be innovative.   Visit: http://www.flixscene.com/  ...

ReelHeART Virtual Award Ceremony 2011 – Film and Screenplay Winners

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Since our inception 8 seasons ago, ReelHeART International Film Festival has always made a point of communicating with the filmmaking community far and wide. If you didn't make it to ReelHeART, you didn't have to worry you'd be left out because since our first year we included you right up until the awards. We specifically created a "Virtual Award Ceremony", so that filmmakers could all tune in at the same time to see if their film or documentary won an award.  You c...

Watch Over 30 Trailers From ReelHeART!

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WITH SO MANY FILMS GRACING OUR SCREENS WE TRY TO GIVE AUDIENCES A WAY TO HELP SELECT THEIR FILM CHOICES. YOU CAN VIEW 30+ TRAILERS FROM ReelHeART RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW! ...

Someone Forgot to Update VFF's Fest21 Blog...Ooops

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Hey Filmmakers & Film Lovers:   Looks like someone forgot to update our Fest21 blog. Oopsie! We've been keeping ourselves busy and the next time you see we've fallen asleep on Fest21, give us a kick in the caboose elsewhere on the web:   On Facebook, like us here: http://www.facebook.com/valleyfilmfest   Tweet with us here: http://www.twitter.com/valleyfilmfest   Browse our festival photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vff ...

How to become famous on YouTube - Butterflies Webisode #6

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Butterflies at The Valley Film Festival tonight at 7PM - article

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The screening of the Award winning film about YouTubers takes place tonight at 7PM at The Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles. To find our more about the film, read today's article on Patch.com  Looking forward to seeing you here: Valley Film Festival Saturday, November 13 @ 7:00pm CAP Theatre 13752 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks, CA 91423  Want to know more about the documentary? Click here ...

Lives of YouTube “Weblebrities” Chronicled in Upcoming Documentary

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Meet six folks in the feature documentary “Butterflies” who share the common goal of becoming Internet sensations via YouTube. Each real-life character in the documentary has made a presence online with thousands of subscribers following their daily lives and video blogs.  The Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles, California is presenting “Butterflies” this fall on November 13th, 2010 at 7pm in the CAP theater in Sherman Oaks. “This opportunity to showcase YouTube on a b...

YouTube Documentary Film in Africa

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To take over another continent with our awesome documentary about YouTubers, we have accomplished another sale last week, this time to ZUKU TV in Nairobi, Kenya in Africa. I am really super excited we are able to show all over the world only one year after our Premiere in Los Angeles. I am also super very excited to see where else we go in the next year coming up. Eventhough YouTube seems very popular in the USA, Internet video is still in development stages in many parts of the res...

The Only Award Winning Documentary about YouTubers comes out on DVD

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Pre-order Butterflies DVD Now It is finally here!!! The special limited 2 disc edition of Butterflies feature film about YouTubers is coming to DVD this winter. This 2 disc edition will not last as only limited number is released, so please order yours right away. ...Go here to order and find out what special features will be included. http://www.butterfliesthemovie.com/dvd.html ******* bonus for the first 20 orders! *The DVD will ship in the beginning of December. ...

Thank you for renting

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  Thank you so much to everyone for all your support and renting Butterflies. We are only one click away from 3200 views on YouTube rentals:) Hope you enjoyed the film and it gave you some ideas on how to make more money on YouTube. The YouTube community has changed so much since the premiere of the film. We are really happy that we were able to capture its beginnings and talk to some of the YouTubers, who started it all. Best of luck with your YouTube channel. Love, http://www.Bu...

Article on Butterflies YouTube Launch

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Hello Butterflies: I hope all of you are having a great weekend and working on some great YouTube videos :) We have three announcements for this week: 1) An article on Documentary Tech website profiles Butterflies and the film's journey all the way to distribution and launch on YouTube 2) New Butterflies network has been established where you can join for free, interact and post your videos. Member's work gets featured each week and we have forum's discussing y...

Butterflies Behind the Scenes

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After crazy month on YouTube where most of you noticed Butterflies on the front page, here are some new clips and interesting info from behind the scenes. First, if you still didn't see the film, it is available for rent here. If you are interested in making of the film, you can read an article published by YouTube or see the filmed interviews here. You will find out why the characters featured in the film were picked and if Butterflies 2 is in the works :) Who sh...

After 4 Sundance films, Butterflies is selected for rent on YouTube.

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One of the first feature films distributed on YouTube is Fest 21 member's documentary film Butterflies. The independent film from European filmmaker Ester Brym has finished its festival run last year graduating with a couple of awards and going on to make history as one of the first films being available for rent on YouTube. Butterflies is feature film following the lives of six young people that are prominent 'weblebrities' on a video site YouTube. The film explores th...

Happy Thanksgiving and watch the YouTube film Butterflies online

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Now exclusively on Journeyman Pictures see the multi Award winniing documentary about YouTubers and social media, Butterflies: http://journeyman.booserver.com/ Butterflies is a feature documentary film following the lives of six young people that are prominent 'weblebrities' on a video site YouTube. The film explores the new media, its power and its future. Will the Internet overcome traditional media? Will new media and traditional media merge? The film documents the struggles a...

Info on Butterflies distribution and interview with the director

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Dear Butterflies: The time has come and Butterflies, my feature doc about YouTubers, is out there for all of you to see!!! Well, not quite yet...but soon :) Very soon! Butterflies wrapped up the festival season at First Glance Film Fest in Philly by receiving one last Award and we have singed a distribution deal with Journeyman Pictures from UK. They will distribute the film all around the world. You can check updates on their website here: Also, we got some new behind the scenes foota...

YouTube documentary online?

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Hello Butterflies: The festival round is coming to its end with Butterflies screening this Sunday for the very last time on a big screen at First Glance Film Fest in Philadelphia. You can find the info here: http://www.facebook.com/ButterfliesTheMovie From all your requests on the videos, we realize we can't bring the film everywhere. But, because we know that lot of you can't make the festival screenings, we are deciding on our next step and want to bring the Award Winning film...

YouTube film Butterflies screens at First Glance Film Festival in Philadelphia

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Philadelphia’s Independent Film Festival is proud to announce Butterflies film to be presented at the 12th annual event on October 25th 2009 at 6PM This will be your last chance to see the Award Winning film about YouTube on a big screen. We have had some great experience at the film festival circle, as well as some not so very good. It is sad to know that some film festival organizers are only there to scam filmmakers and get money out of them for their own projects. We really hope that F...

Butterflies screens at La Femme Festival in Los Angeles

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La Femme Film Festival will present the Award Winning documentary Butterflies about YouTube on Thursday, October 15th at 6PM at the Davidson/Valentini Theatre in Hollywood. See the feature film about YouTubers one last time, before the festival season closes at the end of the month in Philadelphia. Subscribe here for the trailers and behind the scenes: http://www.youtube.com/ButterfliesTheMovie Follow FILMESTER on Twitter for updates from the festivals. Let's get together one last time ...

See the Award Winning film about YouTube in the next 6 days :) Butterflies has arrived!

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Join Butterflies fanpage to get invited to all other upcoming screenings: http://www.facebook.com/ButterfliesTheMovie.com               ...

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