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Agnes Varnum is a freelance writer, film programmer and communications manager for the Austin Film Society. She is the primary contributor to doc it out and Tribeca Film Institute's Resources.

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Make Money Online with Your Movies

December 19th, 2006 • Related Posts • Tags

Via Scott Kirsner’s great CinemaTech blog, CustomFlix, the DVD fulfillment option for indie makers, is now offering a digital download service via Amazon. Nice profit share at 50% but Amazon sets the price. In addition to the news item, Kirsner has a great resource for filmmakers, Getting Paid: Sites that Help Video Producers Make Money. It lists the site URLs as well as summaries of the deals they are offering.

Indiepix.net is not on the list. Anyone else have additions?

Zudeo.comWhile we are on the topic of DIY, via Wired, BBC has inked a deal with BitTorrent client software Azureus which powers the Zudeo service. I checked out the site and you can download the software and use it to publish your content. It doesn’t look like you will see any money from it unless you have a deal with a content provider (like BBC), however, the upside is the quality of your delivery. If you want people to see your work at top quality, this is the spot to go. Could be great for folks wanting to distribute HD film trailers, etc.

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  1. Comment by Danielle on 20 December 2006:

    Jaman will soon offer cinematic-quality, DIY, revenue-share online distribution (right now, filmmakers can send us a DVD and we’ll put it on the site… but we’re working on self-publishing tools). Uh, not to plug my own product on your site, but it was relevant… :-)

  2. Comment by agnes on 20 December 2006:

    The collective “we” look forward to more revenue-share options - I haven’t seen anything yet that convinces me that GoogTube is good for anything except (maybe) eyeballs. Sharing revenue looks like a great model for people who want to keep their rights and monetize independently. Thanks for the heads-up!

  3. Comment by Steve Rhodes on 24 December 2006:

    Though Googtube can provide a lot of eyeballs.

    This video by a band which has also made a documentary (which was shown on myspace on thanksgiving) has been watched over 1.2 million times since Nov. 1st.

    The Yahoo/Current deal on the getting paid page is dead (though people can still submit work to current).

    Someone should corner the apple people at sundance and get them to start a doc section as part of the itunes movie store.

    Click Star which just launched has a documentary channel, Jersey Docs, but I can’t even browse to see what it offers because I have a mac. But there are posts about it from Danny Devito (who is in charge of it) and Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob.

    Al Franken: God Spoke, Who Killed the Electric Car?, and Rudyland are amomg the featured films on the blog.

    Docupyx said it gave cash prizes to some of the short docs on their site which just launched.

    Abbey Corps from Andrew Baron of Rocketboom and Jeff Pulver has been announced, but there is much info yet.