Celebrate gay and lesbian films with the fourth year of Birmingham SHOUT at WorkPlay in Birmingham’s Southside. The two-day film festival, scheduled for May 29-30, will showcase features, documentaries and short films by new and established artists and offer attendees the opportunity to view topics of interest to the LGBT communities, as well as to [...]

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Festival directors who use B-Side’s Festival Genius service for their fest web sites know that they should be encouraging more user participation from their audience, but they don’t know quite how to go about it. Here, then, are ten practical ways to solicit feedback from your audience and to foster a healthy environment of user [...]

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The Delray Beach Film Festival is already underway, and runs until May 24th. Located in a relaxed, artsy enclave along the picturesque South Florida coast, DBFF screens high-quality independent shorts and feature-length narrative and documentary films, and hosts a variety of panels, workshops, concerts, contests, celebrities, and parties. With Glenn R. Swift as Master of [...]

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B-Side founder and CEO Chris Hyams was in Cannes this afternoon to support director/producer Martin Scorsese’s announcement of partnerships and plans designed to further the work of the World Cinema Foundation (WCF). B-Side, along with The Auteurs and Criterion, will help the WCF distribute its restored films to the public. The films that the WCF [...]

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Festival de Cannes is underway. For those of you lucky enough to make the trip to the south of France this year, B-Side has created another unofficial Festival Genius site to help you optimize your schedule.
As usual, there is a lot of buzz surrounding Cannes. Here are a few films that we’re especially excited about:
Los [...]

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The Seattle International Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, May 21st, screening 392 films from 62 different countries. To sort through it all, B-Side implemented an unofficial Festival Genius site just for SIFF!
B-Side offers a few of its picks to check out during the festival.
Mamma Moo and Crow – This animated family film from Swedish [...]

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Last weekend, the B-side team headed uptown to Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) where the 14th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band festival & competition was in full swing. From a whopping 1,500 high school jazz bands from around the country 15 of the finest were selected to compete. On Friday, students and band [...]

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The 7th Annual Jacksonville Film Festival is May 14-21, 2009.  The festival continues the mission to connect Jacksonville to its early “Hollywood of the South” movie-making roots, promote independent film, and revitalize the downtown area. The festival kicks off this year with Like Dandelion Dust.  Based on Karen Kingsbury’s best-selling novel and starring Mira Sorvino [...]

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Last week, B-Side launched the feature documentary RIP: A Remix Manifesto as high quality, DRM-free download on a Pay What You Want model.
In RIP, which made its US debut at SXSW earlier this year, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, raising fundamental questions about the nature of [...]

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The Fourth Annual Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival takes place May 8 – 17, 2009 in Pittsburgh, PA. Celebrating diversity and multi-cultural appreciation of the Asian and Asian American experience, the festival seeks to educate the community regarding Asian history, culture, experiences and issues. Some of the festival’s highlights this year include Chaturanga, an adaptation [...]

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