As the video-on-demand guy here at Movie Buzzers, I’ve been extolling the unlimited distribution methods of multi-platform releasing for quite a while now. One of the things I’ve wondered is how VOD would affect the future of film festivals. After all, why go through all the expense of creating a film festival in a centralized location for a limited audience and throwing a bunch of expensive parties if you could just stream the films?
Wait, ignore that. The parties are usually awesome.
However, it was extremely convenient that during this year’s Tribeca Film Festival some of the selections were streaming online for critics — it made it possible for me to see even more films (and one of them, Babygirl, was one of my favorites of the festival). It’s no surprise then that the idea of a VOD film festival has taken off, with Europe’s first all-VOD film festival, Streams Film Festival, beginning in December.
What’s awesome about the festival is anyone in Europe with the EuroVOD network will be able to stream the films individually for €2.49 or all fourteen for the bargain price of €19.99. That’s a heck of a lot cheaper than buying a pass to a traditional film festival!
According to Screen Daily, the fourteen films are:
- Still Life, dir: Sebastian Meise, 2011, Austria
- The Fatherless, dir: Marie Kreutzer, 2011, Austria
- Diamond Flash, dir: Carlos Vermut, 2011, Spain
- The Perfect Stranger, dir: Toni Bestard, 2011, Spain
- All That Remains, dir: Pierre-Adrian Irlé & Valentin Rotelli, 2010, Switzerland
- Nomad’s Land: In the Footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier, dir: Gaël Métroz, 2008, Switzerland (documentary)
- Hotel Deutschland 2, dir: Stefan Paul, 2011, Germany (documentary)
- Sohnemänner, dir: Ingo Haeb, 2011, Germany
- Berlin Telegram, dir: Leila Albayaty, 2012, Belgium
- Fils Unique, dir: Miel Van Hoogenbemt, 2011, Belgium
- D’amour et d’eau fraîche, dir: Isabelle Czajka, 2010, France
- Crossdresser, dir: Chantal Poupaud, 2010, France (documentary)
- One Hundred Mornings, dir: Conor Horgan, 2009, Ireland
- Sensation, dir: Tom Hall, 2010, Ireland
Hopefully this format turns out to be a big success and we’ll see something like this in the United States!
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