{"id":1073,"date":"2005-10-23T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/10\/23\/direct-to-the-web\/"},"modified":"2005-10-23T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T00:23:00","slug":"direct-to-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/23\/direct-to-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct to the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&laquo; As cheaper technology and a seemingly inexhaustible hipness quotient have led to more filmmakers and films being produced, theatrical distribution has become more expensive, the outlets more cautious, and the returns on investments more dubious. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indieflix.com\">IndieFlix<\/a>, founded by Ms. Andreen and her business partner, the filmmaker Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, comes in. Directors submit their films, which are then posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indieflix.com\">the Web site<\/a>. When users log on and click to buy the films that capture their interest, IndieFlix burns them onto a DVD and ships them out. The price for a feature-length film is $9.95. &raquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/23\/movies\/23ande.html\">Once It Was Direct to Video, Now It&rsquo;s Direct to the Web<\/a> in the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Google also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.video.google.com\/\">video upload section<\/a> (still in beta) and eventually people <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.video.google.com\/video_faq.html#overview7\">will be able to sell their videos<\/a> using their service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&laquo; As cheaper technology and a seemingly inexhaustible hipness quotient have led to more filmmakers and films being produced, theatrical distribution has become more expensive, the outlets more cautious, and the returns on investments more dubious. [&#8230;] That&rsquo;s where IndieFlix, founded by Ms. Andreen and her business partner, the filmmaker Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, comes in. Directors&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/23\/direct-to-the-web\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Direct to the Web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}