Named one of “10 Digital Directors to Watch” by Daily Variety, Jon Reiss is a critically acclaimed filmmaker who has produced and directed three feature films most recently Bomb It (Tribeca 2007) about graffiti, street art and the battle over visual public space throughout the world. Based on his experience releasing Bomb It with a [...]

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This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Summit in Sundance, UT. The Producer’s Summit is an invitation-only event for 40 producer and director Fellows associated with the Sundance Lab programs for Feature & Documentary filmmaking. I was invited to attend as one of the 20 industry [...]

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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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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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Robert Seidman at TV By the Numbers gives us a glimpse into the revenue being made by TV shows on iTunes. He uses the recent #1 iTunes debut of the series premiere of Dollhouse as an example.
If 25,000 downloaded a show from iTunes at $2.00 per download, that’s $50,000 in total revenue. [...]

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Last week, Steve Jelbert profiled Super High Me for The Times of London, highlighting B-Side’s Roll Your Own Screening program. The article, titled Super High Me reveals the secrets of a rolling stoner, opens with the choice teaser:
For once the heads have got it together. A documentary that began life as an offhand [...]

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Well, this is officially the first time the word "Boffo" has been used in conjunction with B-Side. Richard Horgan of FilmStew wrote a nice piece last week on B-Side’s Roll Your Own Screening program for Super High Me. The very generous subtitle reads:
Although Super High Me’s grassroots exploits are of an entirely different [...]

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One of the key reasons we all don’t have 100 megabit broadband connections to our homes is what is known in the telco industry as the last mile. The last mile is the gap between the fat, fiber-optic network pipe that runs through every city and your home.
In the digital entertainment world, the big [...]

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A nice little piece from G4 on our Roll Your Own Screening program for Super High Me:
Since this was a smaller, independent film with little to no advertising budget, the innovators over at B-Side Entertainment decided to approach distribution of the film differently. [...] If you had a projector, a DVD player, and a few [...]

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Mike Stuckey of MSNBC spoke to Super High Me producer Alex Campbell and I last week. His story published today on msnbc.com looks at the commercialization of 420. While the article takes a skeptical view of both pot-smoking and the varied attempts to cash in on the 420 phenomenon, we get a nice [...]

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