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post #1 of 5
1/17/08 at 6:10pm
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Official announcement:
http://www.withoutabox.com/index.php...t.announcement

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Originally Posted by Studio Briefing
The Amazon-owned website Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has agreed to acquire Without a Box, which helps aspiring filmmakers find outlets for their films at film festivals and provides them with tools to promote them. It also helps the festivals promote themselves. The deal -- terms of which were not disclosed -- will presumably allow IMDb to offer some of those films via its website, although details of how that might be accomplished were not included in the initial announcement.
I have a few friends who've used Without a Box in the past. Thought this might be of some interest.
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post #2 of 5
1/17/08 at 7:17pm
Without a Box is great. IMDb, not so much. Although I've never used their indie services. I do know that they wouldn't accept my film into their database, despite several of the actors having IMDb pages. We'll see.
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post #3 of 5
1/17/08 at 7:35pm
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IMDb is weird like that. I have friends who've made $500 short films with no distribution get on the database and friends who've made $6000+ festival-winning features get denied. I'm sure there's a system in place, but I haven't the slightest idea of how it works (anyone?)

Without a Box is pretty neat so it's worth getting somewhat excited about. I'm hearing talk of being able to screen some of the smaller films in their entirety in order to increase your chances of getting picked up by a distributor or something, but it was all heresay (you know those other message boards).
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post #4 of 5
1/17/08 at 7:36pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Eaton
I'm sure there's a system in place, but I haven't the slightest idea of how it works (anyone?)
Fellating the webmaster?
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post #5 of 5
1/17/08 at 11:19pm
I LOVE WIthout-A-Box. I get at least 2 e-mails every week with updated festivals and upcoming deadlines. It makes it so much easier to find festivals and enter them.

imdB usually just says you have to be in a festival - and be able to prove it with the festivals website. I got my Stephen King movie on there, but that's the only one that has shown in festivals so far...
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