The LA Times reports that the Sundance Film Festival will be making the Sundance films available on many popular online video services, including Netflix streaming:
It's hard enough to get into the Sundance Film Festival — more than 10,000 features, documentariesand shorts were submitted for just a few dozen slots in this year's festival. But it's almost equally hard to leave the nation's top gathering for independent film with a distribution deal. Only a handful of Sundance titles receive a meaningful theatrical release.
Determined to break that distribution bottleneck, the Sundance Institute on Wednesday launched an initiative that for the first time packages festival films under the Sundance name and offers them for simultaneous viewing on six of the Internet's biggest video platforms — Apple Inc.'s iTunes,Amazon.com, Hulu, Netflix Inc., Google Inc.'s YouTube and Rainbow Media's SundanceNow.
What a great way to get independent films exposure and revenue.
I love Sundance Film Festival. So does this mean we are going to stream some Movies that got award from Sundance Film Festival.
There are some really good movies that sundance play.
What titles
Posted by: Noor Almtowaq | July 28, 2011 at 03:43 AM
Yup. Keep complaining about the price hike, people! We've gotten Mad Men and Sundance films in the same week. The streaming options are going to keep expanding, but people need to understand that it costs MONEY to do so. Way to go, Netflix. Show the haters! Boom.
Posted by: LittlestWinslow | July 28, 2011 at 10:14 AM
You mean it is a good idea to widely distribute films that consumers can watch cheaply? What a novel concept, Hollywood should consider it.
While I am using it while it is included, I still don't get the big deal about Netflix steaming. EVERYTHING is available via the DVDs.
Posted by: Stephan Neidenbach | July 28, 2011 at 11:47 AM
You both need to read the whole article. The excerpt is misleading.
* Netflix has not agreed to carry the new Sundance package. It is not free. Sundance wants to sell it to Netflix. I personally will be surprised if Netflix agrees to buy it (but one can hope)
* The big deal about Netflix agreeing to stream the new package, if it happens, is that virtually NONE of these movies will ever be available on DVD.
Posted by: Mike | July 28, 2011 at 05:23 PM
Cool, more content coming to streaming. Lets hope its in HD.
Posted by: FearNo1 | July 29, 2011 at 12:13 AM
Films they cant sell, they will sell to netflix since they have been throwing around money for about anything & everything that streams. (Except what many of their customers actually want...which is new releases)
Posted by: RJM35126 | July 29, 2011 at 01:05 AM