Very Cool! Thanks Internet: 4 i-Docs you may have missed | i-docs

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Excerpt from a handy post from i-docs.org:

"...Recently launched at Sheffield Documentary Festival’s Crossover Summit, From the Sea to the Land Beyond is a beautifully put together interactive documentary from director Penny Woolcock about the British coast. Featuring a soundtrack from British Sea Power (apt), the documentary is hosted by the on‐demand digital arts service The Space – which you should also check out if you haven’t already – and is made from 100 years of film heritage stored in the British Film Institute collection...."

Digital television complaint line » James Milward, Gavin McGarry, David Purdy... Weigh in

by Val Maloney

Let’s face it, the digital experience of watching TV shows through traditional Canadian broadcasters could be improved. You go to catch up on your favourite show via the network’s online players and are faced with only a few episodes, two ads that repeat every 90 seconds and various other problems. So, strategy opened up the phone lines, asking digital experts like James Milward, founder and executive producer, Secret Location, Gavin McGarry, president at Jumpwire Media and Lianne Stewart, digital consultant and content strategist, For Your Reading Pleasure to voice some issues with digital and on demand content from Canadian broadcasters. We then asked the broadcasters what they’re doing about it.

Read more: http://strategyonline.ca/2012/06/25/digital-television-complaint-line/#ixzz1y...

Must Watch: WGAW Writers Education presents "Check Out My Package: Making Your Film Project Irresistible" - YouTube

The WGAW Writers Education Committee presents "Check Out My Package: Making Your Film Project Irresistible."

WEC Chairman: Jeff Melvoin.
Panel Co-Chairs: Ari B. Rubin and Michael Tabb.
Moderator: Billy Ray (co-writer, "The Hunger Games").
Panelists Erik Feig (President of Production, Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment),
David Greenblatt (Greenlit Creative)
Randi Hiller (Vice President of Casting, Walt Disney Studios)
Kevin McCormick (President, Langley Park Pictures) and Graham Taylor (head of Global Finance and Distribution Group, WME)

...discuss how to be in the driver's seat when packaging your film project.

Secret Cinema London 2012 review - a warehouse becomes a spaceship (Wired UK)

Excerpt from WiredUK:

'You don't see Secret Cinema advertised anywhere. You don't know what film will be screened. You don't even know where it's going to be held. You just have to meet at a secret location and tell no-one what you've seen.

Yet its latest production took over half a million pounds in ticket pre-order sales before it even opened on 1 June. So what makes it so special?...'

read more here:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/06/secret-cinema

Why it's So Hard to Legally Stream New Movies Online: a Chat with MUBI Founder Efe Çakarel

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Excerpt from thenextweb.com:

"....How to solve a problem like Mubi

Even with all this data in hand, the problem of creating a video on demand service is complex. “I realised how difficult this business is,” admits Çakarel. “It’s not just launching an app, it’s content. The film rights business is very conservative, maybe five years behind music.”

There is hope though. Companies like Netflix and Lovefilm have made headway in changing user behaviour. Today rather than having to go out and buy or rent a film or television series, viewers are demanding access at home or on the move, direct to their devices. Çakarel feels that this shift is one of the ways in which doors can open to innovation around content on demand.

Although there is an argument that services like this have negative effects on the film industry, especially when it comes to movie theatres, Çakarel feels that there is a difference in the choices people make when they decide to consume film.

“I really believe in watching movies on the big screen,” he says...."

Pirate Bay mirror is proxy-friendly, bypasses UK ban (Wired UK)

Excerpt from Wired.co.uk

"Torrenting behemoth The Pirate Bay has launched a parallel version of its website, which is specifically designed to circumvent its controversial block in the UK, as well as in countries like the Netherlands and Italy.

In April 2012, the British High Court forced five major internet providers to block access to the torrent site. Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media all had to stop their users from accessing the infamous file-sharing hub.

When The Pirate Bay first commented on the block, it provided users in the UK with numerous ways to circumvent the filter -- including VPN servers, DNS tweaks, and the Tor Browser Bundle. Now, it has launched a new website to help bypass the block by itself...."

read more here:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/24/the-proxy-bay

ARG? Email scam? FBI? Quite the scenario & well written too...

From: fbi-investigation@philadelphia.com

 

Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (F.B.I)

 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:34:44 +0300

 To: 

 

 Federal Bureau Of Investigation

 Intelligence Field Unit

 William J. Green, Jr. Building

 600 Arch Street, 8th Floor

 Philadelphia, PA 19106

 Phone: (215) 550-4646

 E-mail: philadelphia_fbi_investigation@e-mail.ua

 

 

 Attn Beneficiary

 

 I am a special filed Agent Michael Joe Haskell from the Federal Bureau of

 Investigation (FBI) intelligence unit; we have intercepted two consignments on

 transit to you, we are legally in charge of monitoring every movement of

 consignments from one country to another, we monitor both bank to bank wire

 transaction including parcels shipped through courier companies. We initiated

 secret monitoring and checkmating of consignments after the killing of

 Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden because we seized some vital confidential

 information’s recovered from Osama Bin Laden apartment concerning how their

 Al-Qaeda organization are sponsored by mass donations, many people are

 virtually involved in sponsorship of terrorism knowingly or unknowingly since

 they participate in an unsolicited and security unchecked transactions which

 sometimes the aftermath effect of unclaimed funds becomes wheel power for

 terrorist funding.

 

 We scanned those consignment boxes and discovered the value is $10.5 Million

 Dollars, the backup documents has your initials as the receiver of the sum 

 contained in those boxes, your email address is used as delivery claim

 identification on the manifest booklet, your email was placed convincible on

 the consignments, investigations and interrogation carried out on the diplomat

 conveying the consignments confirmed you as the custodian which the delivery

 was rooted to you as payment presumed to be for unpaid lottery, contracts and

 inheritance .Our priorities are tactically stated below. Our inception has

 corrected worst crime situations all over the world, protecting terrorist

 attacks. Our agents are dully equipped and positioned in every airport all

 over the world, to checkmate and monitor movement of funds especially

 consignment delivery by diplomats. Al-Qaeda, an international terrorist

 network, is considered the top terrorist threat to the world, is an

 international terrorist network founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s.

 They have sponsors all over the world, this is the reason why we monitor

 unsolicited monetary transactions and to ensure we enforce the wrath of law to

 any body implicated through our investigation.

 

 We checked all the legal documents contained in the consignments, we wanted to release the consignments to the diplomat but later find out that the

 consignments does not have two approved important documents ,1, Legal

 Authorization Clearance Certificate and Fund Acquired Ownership Certificate.

 The boxes were kept under security vault so that you will provide those

 required compulsory demanded due process documents According to section 229 subsection 31 of the 1991 joint security constitution enacted by world powers, your consignment lacks proof of ownership acquired certificate and legal

 authorization clearance certificate, you must contact us for direction and

 advise on how to secure those two essential certificates, this is the only

 remedy that will relieved you of charges of unsolicited transactions and

 consignment abandonment which is a punishable offense under section 12

 subsection 441 of constitution guiding movement funds from one country to another.

 

 You have 48hours to secure those mentioned certificates or face legal

 consequences defined for delivery infringement, to avoid interrogation and

 prosecution in court of law for money laundry and sponsorship of terrorism. We

 have investigative jurisdiction over every crime in the world. Also, you must

 not contact any order agency outside us, because your payment is presently

 under our custody, Please don’t respond to any FBI message without this

 security code (FBI/ MON/ COUNTER TERRORISM UNIT). We will direct you on the process of who to contact after investigation.

 

 NB—always be mindful of this security oppression code (FBI/ MON/ COUNTER

 TERRORISM UNIT). 

 Don’t respond to any FBI filed message without the code. Is important you note it.

 

 Yours in service

 

 Agent Michael Joe Haskell,

 Regional Director

 Federal Bureau Of Investigation

 Intelligence Field Unit

 William J. Green, Jr. Building

 600 Arch Street, 8th Floor

 Philadelphia, PA 19106

 Phone: (215) 550-4646

 E-mail: philadelphia_fbi_investigation@e-mail.ua

 Cc: Mr Robert Mueller ( Director FBI)

 Cc: CIA

 Cc: HSC