FROM HERE TO AWESOME

BUZZ: From Online to At a Theater Near You

Last week Arin and myself did an interview about FHTA with NewTeeVee. If you haven’t checked out their site you should it is an excellent news site about all things dealing with online media. Its a great resource.

Hoping to bridge the gap between the independent filmmakers and a paying audience, From Here to Awesome is a new online “film festival” where indie filmmakers can post an online video pitch, drum up support from fans and win a chance at being selected for a finalist showcase in April. And unlike many festivals, submission is free.

The project is a collaboration between filmmakers Head Trauma’s Lance Weiler, We are the Strange’s M dot Strange and Four Eyed Monsters‘ Arin Crumley. All three are pioneers in using the web to promote and distribute feature films — in the video above Crumley and co-Director Susan Buice present a production and distribution case study for Monsters.

“We just wanted to break open the bottleneck that currently exists,” Weiler told me in a phone interview that included Crumley about the project last week. “Make it easier for audience members to find [films], make it easier for filmmakers to have that conversation with them.”

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