A need for the OLD GIRL Network!
Hotel Lungarno, Saletta Guarnieri, Florence, Italy
October 23, 2005
Women's Cinema - Past, Present & Future
Women filmmakers,
distributors and the press meet to discuss the future of Women's Cinema.
- Film
Festivals must evolve to survive.
- The Internet is the new frontier in film distribution
- How can filmmakers host their own site and provide streaming
video at low or no cost?
- Needed: low cost methods of tapping into Internet distribution
for alternative and truly independent work.
- First generation of websites proved too expensive
to be profitable - filmfilm.com, iFilm.com, AlwaysI.com, etc.
- Second generation with new business model is just
beginning - YouTube only a few months old.
- Needed: a forum for the exchange of new ideas, development and marketing
- Needed: a means of building and keeping audience interest