Experience

beamafilm

• Australia
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Acquisitions

  • Feb 2011 - Present

  ★ beamafilm is committed to bringing quality documentaries to 'thinking' digital audiences around the world. We have a focus on Australian stories as well as exploring new paradigms of engagement with consumer and education markets. Powered by state of the art video streaming and payment technologies the beamAfilm network provides easy online access, high level security and adaptive bitrate. We handle: ♦ digitising, ♦ hosting, ♦ distribution, ♦ marketing and ♦ advertising around your film and then share the revenues generously with rightsholders. beamafilm values: 1) Quality Distribute an exceptional range of politically, socially and culturally engaging documentaries for contemporary 'thinking' audiences via state of the art VOD technologies. 2) Authenticity Increase audiences for documentary and particularly Australian documentaries and raise the status of documentary as a form/viewing experience (including feature docos). 3) Sustainability Contribute to the industry's/filmmakers' financial sustainability by providing important sources of secondary income to filmmakers. 4) Independence Operate as an independent business, dealing with independent filmmakers and celebrating independent stories, ideas, art, voices. 5) Engagement Facilitate high levels of interactivity around each film – extending audiences' (and filmmakers') engagement beyond the realms of a traditional screening. ★ beamafilm ★ is the successful recipient of Screen Australia funding for creating an innovative distribution solution for new screen models. According to Kathleen Drumm, Screen Australia's Head of Marketing, beamAfilm "involves experienced players who have demonstrated a commitment to building audiences for Australian screen content outside the mainstream".



Antidote Films

• Australia
• Movies, Videos, and Sound

• Owner

  • Jul 2010 - Present

  Antidote Films is one of Australia's leading independent distributors of high quality, thought provoking Australian and international documentary and feature films. Search the Antidote site and you will find links to Cinema Ventures, Australia's first (and still the only) non-profit film distributor. Discover how your community action group can use many of the films found here for fundraisers and filmmaker Q&A screenings. Find the link to BeamAfilm and discover the world to come. Most of the titles to be found on the Antidote site (and many more) will soon be available as Video On Demand, via BeamAfilm, streamed directly to your computer or digital TV.



Cinema Ventures

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder/Director

  • 2007 - Present

  Cinema Ventures offers an alternative to conventional cinema releasing by working with filmmakers, donors and communities to encourage DIY (Do It Yourself) screenings. Screening a film is an effective way of spreading a message or fundraising for a cause. Never screened a film before? Want to know more about screening fees and copyright? Whether you select a film from our collection or have made one yourself, Cinema Ventures can help! Cinema Ventures is a not-for-profit organisation that secures philanthropy, grants, sponsorships and tax-payer funding to service the distribution of independant film within Australia and New Zealand. Cinema Ventures offers two basic DIY screening models: You:Screen and We:Screen. In both models it will be you holding the screening. You:Screen ----------------- If you want to screen a film at your own cost then purchase a screening fee and Cinema Ventures will ship a DVD to you that you may keep for future personal use after your screening. Screening fees may be purchased by contacting us using the Cinema Ventures enquiry form. Screening fees help support filmmakers dedicated to creating films about issues. For tips on how to run a successful screening, read the Cinema Ventures Screening Success Guide. We:Screen ---------------- We:Screen is a collaboration between us and you: Cinema Ventures organizes and pays for the screening and its associated costs, you screen the film. This model is typically referred to as ‘outreach’ and relies solely on successful fundraising via philanthropy, grants, sponsorships and donations. We:Screen usually suits a filmmaker wishing to self-distribute or a sponsor seeking to tour a specific film. The process starts with your Expression Of Interest and is likely to need a long lead time. Previous We:Screen events have taken the form of screening tours and even pop-up cinemas in communities without screening venues! Read more about our activites on the Cinema Ventures news page.



Gil Scrine Films

• owner

  • Jul 1993 - Jun 2010

  Formerely Gil Scrine Films, Gil changed the company name in June 2010 Formerely Gil Scrine Films, Gil changed the company name in June 2010