31 July: Day 7
The last day of the festival arrived with Durban basking in sunlight. I saw three award-winning films today, the wonderful and candid Position among the stars, the shocking lesbian drama Circumstance and closed off with black butterflies, a fly-on-the-wall production about the life of the iconic SA poet, Ingrid Jonker.
I loved Position among the stars with its colourful family who would have felt right at home in reality TV, breathtaking photography - especially the wa...
To celebrate 10,000 views, we are giving the film out for free online.
Enjoy :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOHx2or45Go
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To find out more about the film, go here
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It was an inspiring evening for the environment here in Paris last night. Louie Schwartzberg’s beautiful film “Pollen” (In English “Hidden Beauty – A Love Story that Feeds the Earth”) about the life-sustaining relationship between flowers and bees, butterflies, bats and birds is not onlya pleasure to watch but educational for all ages.
I was not the only one captivated by the film – at the following party, we discussed how refreshing it was to truly enjoy, learn and ...
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...
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.
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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...
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
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Let's get together one last time ...
Join Butterflies fanpage to get invited to all other upcoming screenings:
http://www.facebook.com/ButterfliesTheMovie.com
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After party will follow the Friday screening :) Please come and join us or check for more dates here:
http://www.ButterfliesTheMovie.com
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Other dates and cities to be announced bellow:
Butterflies will screen at:
Freeze Fest, Czech Republic, September 5th, 2009
Temecula Valley International Film Festival, September 9-13th, 2009
New Filmmakers, New York City, September 16th, 2009
Montana Independent Film Festival, September 27th-28th, 2009
First Glance Philadelphia, October 2009
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Join Butterflies here and get invited to the next screening !
Butterflies
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Be there on July 27th, 2009 to see history in making! The online
personalities are making it to the big screen and this will, without a
doubt, be the end of entertainment as we know it.
You remember when television killed the radio star? Well, this is when Internet kills the TV star :)
No more fabricated characters in movies, no more perfect people that no one can compare to.
These are regular folks, that have it all, and you can see how they did it.
See the YouTube stars taking over the e...
Announcing the World Premiere of Butterflies in NYC on Sept. 16th, 2009?
Can you come? Take a poll and let me know here:
http://butterfliesthemovie.blogspot.com/
Thank you for reading and have a great day :)
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Mark your calendars for September 16th, 2009.
The feature film about YouTube called Butterflies will be playing at New York Anthology Film Archives at 7:45 PM
Tickets only $6 .
This is part of the NewFilmmakers Series :)
Please, take a time out of your schedule to come and see this!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/filmester/3604227916/
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Today, we received our 1st offer for Butterflies for worldwide distribution from Journeyman Pictures. We are very excited, considering the film hasn't started its festival run yet. We are looking forward to see where this "journey" takes us.
See more about the film here:
http://www.ButterfliesTheMovie.com
or
http://www.youtube.com/butterfliesthemovie
http://www.myspace.com/reality2008themovie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1381735/
For any quest...
Butterflies has been accepted to screen at NewFilmmakers in New York City on September 16th, 2009.
The screening will start at 7:45pm and everybody is invited to attend. The screening takes place at Anthology Film Archives :)
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