VIDEO SEARCH WARS
In recent weeks, Yahoo, Google and MSN have each rolled out services designed to make it easier to upload or locate video online. The portals' rollouts come as a handful of startups and independent film sites are creating tools to make putting video online nearly as simple as publishing text. Read article here: http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67302,00.html
HURLUBERLU
Hurluberlu Films has been set up to bring to public attention a huge array of international short films, which, up until now have been unavailable outside their country of origin. As well as providing a bevy of engaging short films with comprehensive content descriptions and subtitles in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, the site also aims to be entirely 'user-centric', allowing visitors to charter its progress. http://www.hurluberlu.com
CONCRETE TV
Concrete TV is the brainchild of Concrete Ron, a skilful video editor with a penchant for splicing up Cartoons, Cult Movies, Schlocky (and frankly quite shocking) ads, as well all manner of TV & Video footage in a veritable Megamix-style pastiche. http://www.concretetv.com
RESFEST FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Resfest is an international Digital Film Festival which aims to entertain, educate and inspire its global audience as the 'touring companion' of the bimonthly lifestyle magazine RES (which includes a 90-minute RES DVD in every issue). The Final Deadline for submissions to this year's Resfest are on May 13 so you better hurry up and put those final touches to your film by next week! http://www.resfest.com
UBERLORD OF SUSPENSE CINEMA QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director." - Alfred Hitchcock