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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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Bird’s Nest: Get It While You Can!

August 14th, 2008 • Related Posts • Tags

Got a great message from Jonathan Miller over at Icarus Films about a special promotion they are running for an intriguing-looking film, Bird’s Nest by Christoph Schaub & Michael Schindhelm. The film follows the 5-year effort of architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuronto as they build the new 100,000 seat stadium for the Olympic Games. The cool part is that the film had its US premiere at Silverdocs in June, and normally wouldn’t be available to consumers for a while, but Icarus is making it available on Amazon Unbox for the duration of the Olympic games. So, if you are consuming all things Olympic, here’s another vantage point.

I dig the interesting things people are doing to find audiences, and the trailer looks wonderful. Lemme know if you’ve seen the movie.

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  1. Comment by Jonathan Miller on 14 August 2008:

    Thanks, Agnes. If you go to Amazon’s main Unbox page there is now a box in upper right hand corner of the page (at least there was earlier today) to sign up for the Beta test version of their new Streaming (Video on Demand) system - you don’t have to download a player, works on Mac and PC and any browser, etc. - and last i looked they were giving a $5 credit for being a Beta “tester” (so, i suppose it means you can watch Bird’s Nest online, and still have $2 left).