Phone Sex Grandma reaches 250k on Youtube.com

B-Side raunch-fest selection “Phone Sex Grandma” recently surpassed a quarter million views on You Tube. Nine and a half minutes of pure profanity laced creep-itude, the short shows Grandma Opal (the filmmaker’s mother… no kidding) hard at work operating her in-home phone sex line. I never get offended as [...]

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SCOUTS ARE CANCELLED

New to B-Side is the stark and inventive documentary “Scouts are Cancelled” that uniquely documents the writings of Canadian poet John Stiles and visually interprets his commentary on small town life in rural Nova Scotia. Recently screened at celebrated B-Side partner festival Hot Docs, the film received a glowing analysis in the current [...]

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Welcome to The Show by B-Side, a bi-weekly look at filmmakers, festivals, and audiences.
A few weeks ago, our intrepid Festival Ops Manager Chris Holland brought his Flip video camera to the 2008 Marfa Film Festival. He came back with some great stories about the [...]

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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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Spent the morning with 101X’s Ray Seggern (aka Raydog) talking about our Roll Your Own Screening program. Ray is a big supporter of the local Austin indie film scene, and highlights filmmakers on a regular basis. The interview segment audio is all posted here.

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Anthony Kaufman of Indiewire wrote a great story today on indie digital rights. I was pretty pleased to be included in the story in the company of folks like Liesl Copland of Netflix, Robert Nathan of Cinetic, Jason Janego of Magnolia, and Lisa Schwartz of IFC.
Most people agree that digital distribution will become the [...]

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Our friend Mike Jones at Variety wrote a nice piece on today’s Super High Me announcement.
This is the kind of alternative distribution news that defines SXSW.
Announced at the film’s SXSW screening, B-Side, Red Envelope and Screen Media Films have partnered to distribute Michael Blieden’s stoner doc, “Super High Me,” where the director documents comedian Doug [...]

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Anne Thompson, Variety columnist and author of the widely read Thompson on Hollywood blog wrote a great story yesterday (and not just great because B-Side is featured) on the challenges of online distribution. A companion piece to her must-read pre-Sundance story “Sundance Shoppers Beware,” today’s story is titled “Frustrated indies seek web distrib’n: But [...]

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With the writers strike finally over, it seems like as good a time as any to get back to the blog. Keeping up with a blog takes time and discipline, and frankly we’ve been busy for the past several months. The next several months will be even busier, though, and I can think [...]

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