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Welcome to Portable.tv

I’ve long known about the Portable Film Festival and have regularly scoured the works it presents for films to feature on DN, but never really gave much

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Flattr Makes Social Micropayments Easy

We all know there’s a massive disconnect between consumption and commerce online – after nearly four years of DN it’s something we’ve

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Music Video

Padam

You have to be pretty brave to make a music video which is just one static shot, but that’s exactly what Parisien design studio M/M decided to do with

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Big Art, Little Debt

Was a time when the filmmaker’s strategy began with the gamble of maxed out credit cards and (hopefully) ended with the win of an acquisition bidding war

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The Extended Take

Just found this fantastic article from Mike Le at Geek Week highlighting the 20 Greatest Extended Takes in Movie History, complete with embedded Videos.

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Film Festival

LIVE@SUNDANCE 2010: Producers Round Table

“Recently, Sundance Film Festival brought a group of independent film producers together for an informal discussion. This is what they talked about. Join

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Documentary, News

The Vice Guide to Liberia

As part of their ongoing Vice Guide to Travel series which sees, “correspondents from VBS and Vice magazine dispatched around the world to visit the

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44 Inch Website

Feature film websites can often be pretty unimaginative things, but every now and then one comes along and provides a bit of a surprise. This is certainly the

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This Decade is About the Filter

Lance Weiler has a written a great article on filtering the social web for film over at Filmmaker Magazine.

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The Coming Revolution in Indie Distribution

Great piece from The New York Times on the state of play for indie filmmakers trying to get their films out to an audience. via @ryanbkoo

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Playing to the Crowd

There’s no denying that in recent years the consumption of media has changed. With the rise of new spectatorship models it seems that the old models of

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Star Wars Uncut

When it comes to film fans, Star Wars probably has one of the most dedicated and somewhat obsessive followings since the birth of Cinema. So when the

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